History of Europe

In 711AD Tariq ibn Ziyad requested additional support for his occupation of Iberia from Musa ibn Nusair (a Yemini Arab), governor of the Umayyad province of Ifriqiya (North Africa). Tariq led 6,700 African soldiers and 300 Arab translators and propagandists into Iberia where they again defeated the armies of the Visigoths, forcing them into the […]

In 710 AD, Moorish commander Tariq ibn Ziyad launched a significant military campaign consisting of 500 African converts to Islam, later known as the invasion of Iberia. This invasion marked the beginning of Muslim presence on the Iberian Peninsula, which would have profound and lasting effects on the region’s history. Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Berber