INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, also spelled Tarik Ibn Zeyad, (died c. 720), Berber general who led the Muslim conquest of Spain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Outline. In 711 Muslim forces invaded and in seven years conquered the Iberian peninsula. It became one of the great Muslim civilisations; reaching its summit with the Umayyad caliphate of Cordovain the tenth century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Spanish occupation by the Moors began in 711 AD when an African army, under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from northern Africa and invaded the Iberian peninsula ‘Andalus’ (Spain under the Visigoths).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Umayyad conquest of Hispania, also known as the Muslim Arab conquest of Iberia, was the initial expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate over Hispania (in the Iberian Peninsula) from 711 to 718.