Virtually all of southern Iberia is in …
Years: 715 - 715
Virtually all of southern Iberia is in Muslim hands by 715.
Abd al-Aziz makes his capital the city of Seville, where he marries Egilona, widow of King Roderic, whom he had taken prisoner and who now encourages him to convert to Christianity and, perhaps, be crowned king of Hispania.
The new Umayyad Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik orders the assassination of Abd al-Aziz.
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Jews
- Goths (East Germanic tribe)
- Moors
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Visigothic Kingdom of Spain
- Muslims, Sunni
- Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus)
- al-Andalus (Andalusia), Muslim-ruled
