The Emirate of Aquba was a powerful Muslum emirate in the New Cordoban between the 1350's, when the island of Aquba was first discovered, and the Treaty of 1734 which removed much of the emirate's territory. The emirate was first established by Cordoban explorer Mohammed Ahmed al-Akbar, who made himself emir of the fledgling colony of Habana in 1359 and announced his territory an independent emirate separate from mighty Cordoba. Because of Cordoba's reliance on the island of Aquba and the Habana colony there to reach the riches of nearby Mexica, they acquiesed and recognized the Emirate as the first Muslum territory of the New World.