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  2. Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    According to the Muslim historian Al-Tabari, [22] Iberia was first invaded some sixty years earlier during the caliphate of Uthman (Rashidun era). Another prominent Muslim historian of the 13th century, Ibn Kathir , [ 23 ] quoted the same narration, pointing to a campaign led by Abd Allah bin Nafi al Husayn and Abd Allah bin Nafi al Abd al Qays ...

  3. Siege of Barcelona (801) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Barcelona was a military operation by a Carolingian army with the aim of conquering the city of Barcelona, which had been under Muslim control for 80 years. The siege and conquest were part of the expansion of the Marca Hispanica and the constitution of the County of Barcelona by the Carolingians.

  4. List of wars involving Spain - Wikipedia

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    Initial Muslim victory, conquering the coastal areas of Iberian Peninsula and establishing some colonies on the coast of Spain to help the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Areas lost soon after due to the general disorder in the Muslim empire, re-occupied by Visigoths. Byzantine incursion against Visigoth Spain (694/702/703)

  5. Early Muslim conquests - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Expansion of the Islamic state (622–750) For later military territorial expansion of Islamic states, see Spread of Islam. Early Muslim conquests Expansion under Muhammad, 622–632 Expansion under the Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661 Expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750 Date ...

  6. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish justified their claims to the New World based on the ideals of the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, completed in 1492. [19] In the New World, military conquest to incorporate indigenous peoples into Christendom was considered the "spiritual conquest".

  7. Invasion of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Umayyad conquest of Hispania (711–718), the conquest of modern-day Spain by the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate; Peninsular War (1807–1814), the invasion of Portugal by Spain and France, and later of Spain by France during the Napoleonic Wars; Louis XVIII's French invasion of Spain (1823), known in Spain as the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

  8. Muslim In America - The Huffington Post

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    Being Muslim in America means… “Finding the appropriate balance between committing to your faith and trying to make sense of the negative rhetoric and stereotypes from segments of our own American society. There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants.

  9. Battle of Guadalete - Wikipedia

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    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 mainly of Berbers and some Arabs [1] under the commander Tariq ibn Ziyad.