Insidb said:
732 AD: Charles "The Hammer" Martel drove the Moors out in the Battle of Tours and triggered the regression of the Muslim forces. |
I am not into history at all, but I did some casual reading on wikipedia thanks to the photo that was posted in this very thread, from wiki:
For a time, the area that is today Spain and Portugal was one of the great Muslim civilizations, reaching its summit with the Umayyad Caliphate in the 10th century. Muslim Spain had the following chronological phases:
The Emirate directly dependent on the Caliph in Damascus (711–756)
The Independent Emirate (756–929)
The Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031)
The first Taifas (1031–c. 1091)
The Almoravid rule (c. 1091–c. 1145)
The second Taifas (c. 1145–c. 1151)
The Almohad rule (c. 1151–1212)
The Kingdom of Granada (1212–1492)
The late Alpujarras revolt (1568–1571), with two monarchs appointed successively by the Morisco rebels (Note: the dates when the different taifa kingdoms were annexed by Almoravids and Almohads vary)
It was only by the end of the 14th century after Tariq's conquest that a majority of the population practiced Islam (mostly descendants of native Hispanic converts).
The Madrasah of Granada was the first university in Granada, Andalusia. It was founded by the Nasrid dynastymonarch Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada in 1349
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Spain#Rule
I understand they didn't rule all of spain but parts of it from time to time.
