Julian, Count of Ceuta

Julian, Count of Ceuta (Spanish: Don Julián, Conde de Ceuta,, Arabic: يليان, (Īlyan ) was, according to some sources, a renegade governor, possibly a former comes in Byzantine service in Ceuta and Tangiers who subsequently submitted to the king of Visigothic Spain before secretly allying with the Muslims. According to Arab chroniclers, Julian had an important role in the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, a key event in the history of Islam, and in the subsequent history of what were to become Spain and Portugal.