The Umayyad conquest of Hispania was the invasion and takeover of the Visigothic Kingdom by Muslim forces from North Africa. A Berber-dominated army under Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, and defeated the Visigothic king Roderic in a battle in the south of the peninsula. The governor Musa ibn Nusayr then arrived with reinforcements, and within a few years most of the Iberian peninsula was under Muslim control, with only small areas in the northern mountains holding out. The Umayyad armies also pushed into Gaul, until they were checked in the 730s. The conquered territory became al-Andalus, and the Christian resistance in Asturias later became the basis of the Reconquista.
Before and after
- 710 CEConstruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque
- from 710 CE to 794 CENara period
- c. 710 CEEruption of Witori
- from 711 CE to 1492Al-Andalus
- from 711 CE to 726 CEUmayyad conquest of Hispania
- 19 July 711 CEBattle of Guadalete
- 712 CEBirth of Du Fu
- 712 CEConstruction of Qasr Amra
- from 15 July 717 CE to 15 August 718 CESiege of Constantinople
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