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Al-Andalus, Muslim kingdom that occupied much of the Iberian Peninsula from 711 CE until the collapse of the Spanish Umayyad dynasty in the early 11th century. The Arabic name Al-Andalus likely refers to the Vandals who occupied the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century.
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Sep 29, 2023 · 29 September 2023 By Matthew Harffy. Matthew Harffy looks at 8th-century Al-Andalus, the setting for his latest book, A Day of Reckoning. Several decades after the conquest of most of Spain by Islamic armies, Al-Andalus already had a rich culture in which the arts and sciences flourished. But it was also a place of conflict and cruelty, as he ...
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Al-Andalus [a] ( Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim -ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France. The name describes the different Muslim [1] [2] states that controlled these territories at various times between ...
Andalusia has been at the heart of civilization for thousands of years of cultural coexistence, playing a key role in the development of Spain and Europe. Populated since the Stone Age, it was...
With the arrival of the Muslims on the Peninsula in the 8th century, new influences came from other languages such as Arabic or Berber. An Avenue in Andalusia or The Maja and the cloaked Men...
Pelagius. Map of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 710 and the 720s. The conquest resulted in the defeat of the Visigothic Kingdom and the establishment of the Umayyad Wilayah of Al-Andalus .
Jan 9, 2023 · Al-Andalus: The Former Islamic States in Spain and Portugal. By the early 8th century AD, the Umayyad Caliphate controlled almost the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula. Using the momentum from their conquests in the Middle East and North Africa, the newfound Muslim empire made short work of the disunified Visigothic Kingdom that laid claim to ...
