Page "Al-Andalus" Paragraph 14

This testimony of the Arab chronicle, the modern name Isla de Tarifa, and the above mentioned toponymic evidence that Andaluz is a name of pre-Roman origin taken together lead to the supposition that the Island of Andalus is the present day Isla de Tarifa, which lies just offshore from the modern day Spanish city of Tarifa.

The extension of the scope of the designation " Al-Andalus " from a single islet to all of Iberia has several historical precedents.