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Date 711 - c. 2016

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Interior view of the Great Mosque of Cordoba showing rows of columns with reused Roman and Visigothic capitals and red-and-white striped horseshoe arches.
Map showing the changing boundaries of the Byzantine Empire around the eastern Mediterranean. Three areas are marked: the largest outline shows the empire's greatest extent under Justinian I (527-565), a medium pink area shows the empire in about 1020, and a smaller red area shows the empire in about 1360. Key regions include Asia Minor, Greece, the Balkans, and parts of Italy, North Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean coast, with Constantinople marked as the capital.
Wood engraving showing Charles Martel raising a battle axe while on horseback during the Battle of Tours, surrounded by armored soldiers and horses in combat.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I
Spain: Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain: Great Mosque of Córdoba
Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ
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Talavera de la Reina: city walls
Talavera de la Reina
Spain
Interior view of the Great Mosque of Cordoba showing rows of columns with reused Roman and Visigothic capitals and red-and-white striped horseshoe arches.
Córdoba
province, Spain
Great Mosque of Córdoba
Córdoba
Spain
People walk across the large stone plaza in front of the ornate twin-towered Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Galicia, Spain.
Galicia
region, Spain
Navarra: Javier Castle
Navarra
autonomous area, Spain
Portugal
Portugal
country, Europe
Spain
Spain
country, Europe
Map showing the locations of the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla on the northern coast of Africa, each surrounded by Morocco and bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Insets provide close-up views of the exclaves and a regional map situating them relative to Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, and Algeria.
Ceuta
autonomous area, Spain
Spain: Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
Caliphate of Córdoba
historic state

Key People

Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III
Umayyad caliph
Great Mosque of Damascus
Umayyad dynasty
Islamic history
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Abu Muslim
Muslim leader
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Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I
Spanish Umayyad ruler
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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān II
Spanish Umayyad ruler