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The Battle of Guadalete was the first major battle of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula -
Muslims win the battle and establish Al-Andalus
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Is called the dependent emirate because Al-Andalus, was dependent on the Umayyad caliph in Damascus
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After the victory, Abd al-Rahman proclaimed himself independent emir of al-Andalus in Archidona on March 16 and the Abbasids of Baghdad lost this territory. -
The Caliphate of Córdoba collapsed during a civil war, when al-Andalus broke up into a number of mostly independent mini-states and principalities called taifas.
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Abd al-Rahman III was the first caliph and greatest ruler of the Umayyad Arab Muslim dynasty of Spain -
For Al-Andalus, the Caliphate of Córdoba was an economic, cultural and scientific golden age, and Córdoba become Europe's most popular city
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military incursion that the Saracens used to make in the summer in Christian territories. -
The taifas were small kingdoms into which the Caliphate of Córdoba was divided after the Córdoba Revolution that deposed Caliph Hisham II.
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Between the years 1090-1046 the arrival of the Almoravids and Almohads to the Iberian Peninsula occurred. These are nomadic Berber groups from North Africa. Spanish Muslims invite them to settle on the peninsula to increase the number of soldiers in their armies and revitalize the practice of Islam.
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faced an allied Christian army made up largely of Castilian troops -
It was a Muslim state located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, with its capital in the city of Granada, which existed during the Middle Ages.
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They were a tax that the Taifa kings paid to the Christian kings