HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Sweden
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Poland
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Spain
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Ireland
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Detailed explanation-1: -Al-Andalus, also called Muslim Spain, Muslim kingdom that occupied much of the Iberian Peninsula from 711 ce until the collapse of the Spanish Umayyad dynasty in the early 11th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ruled by a caliph (Arabic khalīfah, “successor”), who held temporal and sometimes a degree of spiritual authority, the empire of the Caliphate grew rapidly through conquest during its first two centuries to include most of Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Spain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sicily threw the invaders back into the sea in the 11th century, after 100 years of occupation. Ottoman Muslims were defeated in 1683 at the battle of Vienna. A number of Central European countries and the Balkan States were under Ottoman Islamic rule for 350 years, until the middle of the 19th century.