Ali Bey Al-Abbasi
Ali Bey al-Abbasi (علي باي العباسي), was the false name/pseudonym that Domingo Badía y Leblich (Barcelona 1766 – Syria 1818), a Spanish explorer and spy in the early 19th century, used for several years in his travels to North Africa and the Middle East. Notably, he witnessed the Saudi conquest of Mecca in 1807.
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