jan 1, 711 - Muslim Conquest of Spain

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Tariq bin Ziyad led the Arabs conquest over Spain. He gathered troops of armies which consisted majority of Berbers from Maghreb. He himself a Berber whom converted to Islam.

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Richard B. Parker, North Africa Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns (United States of America: New York Praeger Publishers, 1987), 7.

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