Documentary about the Arab and Berber conquest of Visigothic Spain by the Umayyads in the 8th century. In 711, a crucial battle took place between the Visigothic rulers of Spain and an Arab / Berber army that would shape the history of the Iberian Peninsula for centuries to come.

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In 711, an Umayyad army crossed from North Africa into Spain and proceeded to conquer most of the Peninsula. In 1212, a coalition Christian army decisively defeated the last great Moorish power on the Iberian Peninsula, the Almohads. Finally, in 1492, the monarchs of Aragon and Castile subdued Granada, the last Moorish holdout on the southeastern sliver of the peninsula. This long period of history encompasses one of the truly great contests of the Middle Ages: the battle for Spain. Thus the history of medieval Iberia has become almost legendary as the Reconquista.

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