ask Spain about the 781-year invasion by Berbers & Arabs

2008-12-20 857

Berbers and Arabs's invasion of Spain between 711 and 1492

In the year 711, a small Berber army under Arab leadership crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from Morocco and, in the following year, defeated the army of Spain, slaying its king. Within a matter of few years only, the whole Iberian peninsula was theirs and the course of Western civilization was transformed.