PersonAD 720
Tariq ibn Ziyad
Umayyad general, probably of Berber origin, who crossed the straits in 711 and overthrew the Visigothic kingdom; Gibraltar (“Tariq’s mountain”) bears his name
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The Umayyad general Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the straits from North Africa and overthrew the Visigothic kingdom. Most of the Iberian Peninsula came under Muslim rule.
Themes this person appears in
- The Rise of the Islamic WorldAD 570 – 1055
From the revelation to Muhammad to the Seljuk entry into Baghdad — 450 years in which a new faith from Arabia built a civilisation stretching from Iberia to Central Asia and reached as far as Silla by sea