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  2. Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    From 740 to 742, the invasion was then disrupted by the Berber Revolt, and in 755 when an Abbasid force led by Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri landed to claim the territory from the Umayyads. However, an Umayyad army was decisively defeated by Pelagius of Asturias at the Battle of Covadonga in the mountains of Asturias, securing a Christian ...

  3. Al-Andalus - Wikipedia

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    Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: al-ʾAndalus) [a] was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.The name refers to the different Muslim [1] [2] states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492.

  4. Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula

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    1159 – Évora and Beja, in the southern province of Alentejo, are taken from the Moors by the Portuguese. 1160 – Maimonides and his family took refuge in Fez in Morocco, which had been spared by the Almohads. 1161 – Évora, Beja and Alcácer do Sal are retaken by the Moors. 1162 – King Afonso I of Portugal retakes Beja from the Moors.

  5. Reconquista - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...

  6. Moors - Wikipedia

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    Moorish architecture is the articulated Islamic architecture of northern Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal, where the Moors were dominant between 711 and 1492. The best surviving examples of this architectural tradition are the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba and the Alhambra in Granada (mainly 1338–1390), [ 63 ] as well as the Giralda in ...

  7. Spanish immigration to Cuba - Wikipedia

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    In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out with three ships and an army of 300 men from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island. The settlement was at Baracoa, but the new settlers were to be greeted with stiff resistance from the local Taíno population.

  8. Morisco - Wikipedia

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    Modern studies in population genetics have attributed unusually high levels of recent North African ancestry in modern Spaniards to Moorish settlement during the Islamic period [92] [93] [94] and, more specifically, to the substantial proportion of Morisco population which remained in Spain and avoided expulsion. [95] [96]

  9. History of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    It has been described as the largest mass emigration in Cuba's history. It is estimated that nearly 500,000 Cubans sought refuge into the United States between 2021–2023, accounting for nearly 5% of Cuba’s population. It is estimated that 60% of the new Cuban arrival between 2021–2023 (300,000), have settled in Miami-Dade County. [250] [162]