Moorish Spain

Moorish Spain

by RichardFletcher (Author)

Synopsis

In the year 711, a small Berber army under Arab leadership crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from Morocco and in the following year defeated the army of Spain, slaying its king. Within just a few years, the whole of the Iberian peninsula was theirs and the course of Western civilization was transformed.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 189
Edition: New e.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11 Jan 1994

ISBN 10: 0520084969
ISBN 13: 9780520084964

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Richard Fletcher is a distinguished historian and accomplished writer with the gift of making complex historical happenings comprehensible to his readers without losing a sense of their complexity. --Raymond Carr, The Spectator