Al-Andalus Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
in historiography, the territories of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule between 711 and 1492
About Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus began when Tariq ibn Ziyad, an Umayyad commander, led a large army across the Strait ofGibraltar(In ArabicJabal Ṭāriq, "mountain of Tariq") into what was thenVisigothicHispania in 711. It ended with theReconquista("reconquest") in 1492, when Granada, the last Islamic stronghold in Iberia, fell to the Christian kingdoms of northern Iberia. Consequently, the remaining Muslim and Jewish populations were either forced to convert to Christianity, killed, or were expelled, Muslims chiefly to North Africa and Jews mostly to Italy or theOttoman-held Eastern Mediterranean As a result of this history of Muslim rule, theSpanishlanguage contains many loan words fromArabic, andSpanish cuisinealso exhibits substantial Arabic influences. The modern Spanish region ofAndalusiaderives its name fr
Al-Andalus Travel Guide Sections
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