Muslim (Moorish) conquest of the Iberian peninsula

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.2: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Classical and Post-Classical, 700-1300.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Domains

Invasion, conquest and annexation

Dates

Date of occurrence 711-04-30-718

Places

Spain (Location)

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Under the authority of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I of Damascus, and led by the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad, the army of North-African Muslims (Moors) landed at Gibraltar on April 30 and then moved on northward in a 8-year long military campaign at the end of which most of the Iberian Peninsula was brought under Muslim occupation save for small areas in the northwest (Galicia and Asturias) and the largely Basque regions in the Pyrenees. The conquered territory, under the Arabic name al-Andalus, became part of the expanding Umayyad empire.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Muslim (Moorish) conquest of the Iberian peninsula". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=6796, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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