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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

Since we are going to Morocco in November,

I decided to pick an episode about Morocco.

I only kind of got there.

I chose somebody who's been on my list for a while who probably was born in Morocco,

but this story mainly takes place other places.

In the West, he's usually called Estevanico,

also spelled Estebanico,

because V and B have very similar pronunciations in Castilian Spanish. That, though, is a diminutive

form of Estevan, which English speakers usually say more like Estevan. People have used

that diminutive for him, which they also would have used for children, because he was enslaved.

I put the name, Estevanico, in the title of the episode, because that's what he is usually called in the United States and other predominantly English-speaking countries.

And I wanted people to be able to find the episode if they were looking for it.

But we are not going to call him that.

We don't know exactly when or where Estevan was born or what his name was from birth.

Estevan is probably the name that he took or was given when he converted from Islam to

Christianity.

In Morocco, he is more often known as Mustafa Azimur or Mustafa al-Asimor.

Mustafa is an Arabic name.

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