Al-Andalus

By JMC16
  • 711

    A muslim army led by Tarik crossed the strait of Gibraltar and defeated the Visigoths at the Battle of Guadalete

  • Period: 711 to 718

    The conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom

  • Period: 718 to 756

    The dependent Emirate

  • 722

    The Ummayyad caliph established an emirate with capital in Cordoba

  • 750

    THE ABBASID DYNAST FROM BAGHDAD TOOK CONTROL OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE

  • 756

    THE LAST MEMBER OF THE UMMAYYAD CLAN FLED TO AL-ANDALUS. HE PROCLAIMED HIMSELF AN INDEPENDENT EMIR UNDER THE NAME OF ABD-AL-RAHMAN I AND FOUNDED THE UMAYYAD EMIRATE OF CORDOBA

  • Period: 756 to 929

    The independent Emirate

  • 929

    THE CALIPHATE OF CORDOBA WAS AN ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC GOLDEN AGE

  • Period: 929 to 1031

    Caliphate of Cordoba

  • 1030

    IN THE EARLY 11th CENTURY, THE HIGH COST OF THE ARMY AND RIVALRY BETWEEN THE NOBLES AND MILITARY TO ESCAPE THE CALIPH'S CONTROL SENT THE CALIPHATE INTO A CRISIS

  • 1031

    AL-ANDALUS SPLIT INTO 25 INDEPENDENT TAIFA KINGDOMS

  • Period: 1031 to 1238

    Taifa Kingdoms

  • 1086

    ALMORAVIDS

  • 1147

    ALMOHADS

  • 1212

    BATTLE OF LAS NAVAS DE TOLOSA

    THE CHRISTIANS CONQUERED VIRTUALLY ALL TAIFA KINGDOMS
  • 1238

    THE NASRID KINGDOM BECAME PROSPEROUS UNTIL THE YEAR 1492 THAT GRANADA SURRENDERED UNDER THE CHRISTIANS

  • Period: 1238 to 1492

    Nasrid Kingdom

  • 1492

    IN THE LATE 15th CENTURY, THE CATHOLIC KINGS DECIDED TO CONQUER THE KINGDOM. BOABDIL, THE LAST NASRID KING, SURRENDERED GRANADA IN 1492, ENDING ALMOST 800 YEARS OF ISLAMIC RULE ON THE IBERIAN PENINSULA