What is Umayyad conquest of Hispania?
[[File:Al Andalus dirham 76119.jpg|thumb|305px|{{center|Issue of the Emirate of Cordova, 807}}]] [[File:The Emirate of Córdoba.svg|thumb|305px|Al-Andalus under the Umayyads]] [[File:Al Andalus - 2.png|thumb|right|305px|The Caliphate of Cordova c. 1000 at its peak, under [[Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir|Al-Mansur]]]] The '''Umayyad conquest of Hispania''' was the expansion of the [[Umayyad Caliphate]] over [[Iberian Peninsula|Hispania]], from 711 to 788.<ref name=C>Collins, Roger 1989. ''The Arab conquest of Spain 710-797''. Oxford, UK / Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. p. 97. {{ISBN|0-631-19405-3}}</ref> The conquest destroyed the [[Visigoths|Visigothic Kingdom]] and set up the [[Emirate of Córdoba|Emirate of Cordova]] under [[Abd ar-Rahman I]]. This completed [[al-Andalus]], the unification of Muslim-ruled Iberia (756–788). The conquest was the westernmost expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate and [[Muslim]] rule into Europe. [[Charles Martel]] defeated them in the Battle of [[Tours]], so they did not conquer France. The conquering army was made up mainly of [[Berber people|Berber]]s (north-western Africa). They had only recently come under Muslim influence. They arrived in early 711 at [[Gibraltar]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKOkMyxXY3AC&dq=tariq&pg=PA123 |title=Maroc et Espagne: une histoire commune publié par Fundación El Legado Andalusí |work=Books google |isbn=9788496395046 |access-date=26 May 2010|last1=Andalusí |first1=Fundación El Legado }}</ref> The Umayyad Caliphate in [[Damascus]] was overthrown around 750 AD, but continued in al-Andalus until 1031. The period from 710 to the fall of the last Islamic state in the [[Battle of Granada]] in 1492 is called the ''[[Reconquista]]''. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Al-Andalus]] [[Category:Caliphates]] [[Category:8th century]]