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ernstjunger on Nostr: In world history, 711 AD is most famous as the year the Umayyad conquest of Hispania ...

In world history, 711 AD is most famous as the year the Umayyad conquest of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) began:
​A general named Tariq ibn Ziyad led a military force across the Strait of Gibraltar from North Africa into modern-day Spain and Portugal.