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In what year did the Arabs invaded the Iberian Peninsula? What was the name of the general who named Gibraltar?
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Tariq (binary/octet-stream)
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711 a.D. The general was called Tariq (Jab al-Tariq, the mountain of Tariq = Gibraltar) |
What was the name of the Visigoth king who led the Christian army in 711 and in which battle was he defeated? | Don Rodrigo. He was defeated in the Battle of Guadalete |
In which battle and what year the Muslims were defeated by the Franks? | Battle of Poitiers, 732 |
During the first two centuries of the Muslim conquest, this was organized in the form of... Caliphate or Emirate? | Emirate |
What was the name of the first caliph in Al-Andalus? | Abd al-Rahman III. He founded the caliphate in the year 929 |
Where did he establish the capital of the Caliphate? | |
What was the Marca Hispanica (Spanish march)? | It was a territory occupied by Charlemagne by the south of the Pyrenees and whose counts became his vassals. It was a defense against a possible Muslim attack on the Frankish kingdom. |
What led to the division of Al-Andalus into the Taifa Kingdoms in 1031? | A civil war (Fitna of Al-Andalus) caused by the struggle among different leaders who wanted to become the Caliph |
What tribe put an end to the First Taifa Kingdoms and where did they come from? | The Almoravids in 1086, who created an empire in the north west of Africa (what today is Morocco and Western Sahara) |
What products form the Mediterranean trilogy? |
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