In the meantime, the city's official name had been changed to Ḥimṣ al-Andalus (حمص الأندلس), in reference to the city of Homs in modern Syria, the jund of which Seville had been assigned to upon the Umayyad conquest;[11][12][9][13] "Ḥimṣ al-Andalus" remained a customary and affectionate name for the city during the whole period throughout the Muslim Arab world,[9][14][15] being referred to for example in the encyclopedia of Yaqut al-Hamawi[16] or in Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi's Ritha' al-Andalus.[17]