Andalusian mancala boards → Portuguese. Mancala games were introduced to Andalusia (then called "al-Andalus") in the 10th century AD by the Moors. * In Ciudad de Vascos (Navalmoralejo, Toledo), there are at least 13 boards dating from the 10th or 11th century. They were researched by the Spanish archaeologists Cosín Corral and García Aparicio. * The Burgos Museum has a mancala board from the San Domingo de Silos monastery, which belonged to the daughter of Abd-al-Rahman III (891-961), the emir (912-929) and first caliph (929-961) of Cordoba. It isn't archived as a game board, but as a "game box" ("estuche de juegos"). * Another board is carved in a stone at one side of the "Puerta del Cambrón", Toledo. This city gate used to be the entrance to the Jewish quarter. It was rebuilt i