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In 570 Muhammad was born
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In 622 Muhammad fled to medina. This event called the Hijira.
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In 630 many Arabians tribes converted to Islam
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In 632 Muhammad died, most Arabs were Muslims
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In 711 an army of Berbers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and defeated the Visigoths in the Battle of Guadalete, in wich King Roderic died.
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In 718 Berber tribes in North Africa, took over most of the Iberian Peninsula
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In 718 invading armies controlled most of the peninsula and a small part of the population, took refuge in Cantabrian mountains
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In 719 Al-Andalus became a province or emirate that was dependent on the Umayyad Caliphate of Demascus
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In 732 Berbers tribes attacked the Frankish kingdom, where they were beaten in the Battle of Poitiers.
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In 750 the caliphs in Damascus were overthrow by the Abbasid of Baghdad
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In 756 the last member of Umayyad family fled to Al-Andalus
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In 831 they expanded towards Nurbia occupied Palermo.
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In 846 they invaded southern and Central Italy.
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In 929 the emir Abd al-Rahman III proclaimed himself caliph and established the Caliphate of Córdoba
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In 1008 the Caliphate began to break up
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In 1031 Al-Andalus was divided into more than 25 independent kingdoms
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In 1492 the prosperous economy allowed the sultans to pay high taxes in gold to Castile to avoid attack. Boabdil, the last ruler of Granada, surrendered to the Catholic Monarch.
