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169 Northern African Moors invade what is now Spain
.
372 Valentinian crushes the Moors in Africa
.
693 The Portuguese
sity of Viseu was taken from the Romans by the Moors=
711 Ummayad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar
and begin their invasion of the Iberian peninsula
and conquest of the Visigoths
(See Moors, Al-Andalus
, and Umayyad conquest of Hispania)
711 Ummayad Moors conquer the Iberian peninsula
after the Battle of Guadalete
732 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers
, France
, leader of the Franks
Charles Martel
and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslim
s from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba
, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
778 Charlemagne
fights the Moors in Spain
.
785 The Frankish empire conquers Girona from the Moors.
846 The Moors temporarily recapture León.
1031 Collapse of the Moorish
Caliphate of Córdoba
.
1085 Alfonso VI of Castile
takes Toledo
, Spain
back from the Moors.
1106 Balaguer, Spain
, is captured from the Moors by the count of Urgell.
1118 Alfonso the Battler expels the Moors from Zaragoza.
1118 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona captures Tarragona
from the Moors.
1147 Siege of Lisbon: King Afonso I of Portugal
and the Crusaders
capture Lisbon
from the Moors.
1148 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
conquered Tortosa in possession of the moors.
1148 King Afonso I of Portugal
takes Abrantes from the Moors.
1238 In the Iberian peninsula
, James I of Aragon
captures the city of Valencia September 28 from the Moors; the Moors retreat to Granada
.
1243 Castile
captures the city of Murcia from the Moors.
1248 King Ferdinand III of Castile
recaptures the city of Seville
from the Moors during the Reconquista
.
1248 Construction on the Alhambra palace, in Granada
, Spain
, is begun by the Moors.
1249 The Moors lose possession of Alicante
in Al-Andalus
(Islam
ic Spain
).
1263 King James I of Aragon
conquers Crevillente, Spain
from the Moors during the Reconquista
.
1264 In Spain
, King James I of Aragon
reconquers
the cities of Orihuela in Alicante and Elx in Valencia from the Moors, ending over 500 years of Islam
ic rule.
1265 King Alfonso X of Castile
captures the city of Alicante
, Spain
from the Moors during the Reconquista
.
1269 The Almohad
dynasty of caliph
s (not universally accepted) that once ruled most of North Africa
and Al-Andalus
(Moorish
Spain
) is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.
1272 King Alphonso III of Portugal eliminates the last Moorish
community in Portugal
at Faro.
1275 Ramon Llull
establishes a school in Majorca to teach Arabic to preachers in an attempt to aid proselytizing to Moors. He also discovers diethyl ether
.
1287 The treaty of San Agayz is signed. King Alfonso III of Aragon
conquers the island of Minorca
from the Moors.
1291 Sancho IV of Castile
captures Tarifa from the Moors.
1479 Ferdinand II
ascends the throne of Aragon
and rules together with his wife Isabella
, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula
. Together they conquer Granada
in 1492 ending 800 years of Moorish
rule.
1492 Boabdil, the last Moorish
King of Granada
, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
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