Count Cassius (8th century), also Count Casius, kumis Kasi or kumis Qasi, was a Hispano-Roman or Visigoth nobleman that originated the Banu Qasi dynasty. Count Cassius converted to Islam in 714, after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, as a means to preserve his lands and political power. Cassius was known to have travelled to Damascus to personally swear alligeance to the Caliph Al-Walid I. At the time of the Muslim arrival and after, Cassius ruled an area comprising Tudela, Tarazona, Borja and probably Ejea.
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- Alberto Cañada Juste, El posible solar originario de los Banu Qasi, in Homenaje a don José M.ª Lacarra..., Zaragoza, 1977, I.
