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Period: 711 to 756
Dependent Emirate
during the Caliphate of Damascus the Umayyad family ruled the Emirate.
Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, led by Táriq ibn Ziyad. -
Period: 756 to 930
Independent Emirate
was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. It was established after the arrival of Abd al-Rahman I, an Umayyad prince who escaped the massacre of his family in Damascus, following the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate to the Abbasids in 750.