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-The Muslim army led by Tarik crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, defeated the Visigoths in the Battle of Guadalete and conquered almost all the Iberian Peninsula in seven years because there wasn't Visigothic resistance.
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The Visigoths defeated the Islam army and stopped the Islam expansion. The Visigoths took refuge in the Cantabrian Range.
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The Abbasid dynasty from Baghdad took control of the Islamic empire.
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The last member of the Ummayad clan fled to Al-Andalus and proclaimed himself an independent emirate under the name of Abd al-Rahman I.
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The high cost of the army and the rivaly between the nobles and military to escape the caliph's control sent the Caliphate into a crisis.
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Al-Andalus was divided into 25 independent kingdoms, taifas. This led the Christian kingdoms to attack.
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To prevent Christian conquest, the Almoravids, North African Muslim people arrived on the Peninsula and took control of most taifas.
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After the Almoravids, the Almohads arrived to the Peninsula to prevent Christian conquest.
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In this battle, the Christians defeated the Muslims and conquered almost all the taifa kingdoms.
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The Nasrid dynasty founded the Kingdom of Granada in 1238, which was a prosperous kingdom over two centuries thanks to trade and agriculture.
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In 1492, the Catholic Kings finnaly conquered the Kingdom of Granada when Boabdil, the last Nasrid king surrendered, ending the Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula.