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Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
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AD 711
Calendar year
Year 711 (DCCXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 711 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula
8th-century Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, was the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania in the early 8th century. The conquest resulted in the end of Christian rule in most of Iberia and the establishment of Muslim…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Guadalete
8th-century battle between the Visigothic Kingdom and the Umayyad Caliphate
The Battle of Guadalete was the first major battle of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, fought in 711 at an unidentified location in what is now southern Spain between the Visigoths under their king, Roderic, and the invading forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, composed…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Umayyad Caliphate
Second Islamic caliphate (661–750 CE)
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. Uthman ibn Affan, the third of the Rashidun caliphs, was also a member of the clan. The family established dynastic,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tariq ibn Ziyad
Umayyad commander in Hispania (died c. 720)
Tariq ibn Ziyad, also known simply as Tarik in English, was an Umayyad commander who initiated the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula against the Visigothic Kingdom in 711–718 AD. He led an army and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from the North African coast,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Visigoths
Germanic people of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
The Visigoths were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity. The Visigoths first appeared in the Balkans, as a Roman-allied barbarian military group united under the command of Alaric I. Their exact origins are…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Roderic
8th-century king of the Visigoths
Roderic was the Visigothic king in Hispania between 710 and 711. He is well known as "the last king of the Goths". He is actually an extremely obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty. He was the last Goth to rule from Toledo, but not the last Gothic king, a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)