* 711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ).

In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

In 1143, he wrote to Pope Innocent II to declare himself and the kingdom servants of the Church, swearing to pursue driving the Moors out of the Iberian Peninsula.

Afonso also sent ambassadors to European kingdoms outside the Iberian Peninsula and began amicable commercial relations with most of them.

When the campaigns in Africa were over, Afonso V found new grounds for battle in the Iberian Peninsula.

By the 3rd century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

Indeed, it is a major cultural and economic centre in southwestern Europe ( Iberian Peninsula ), 26th in the world ( after Moscow, before Dubai ) and a growing financial centre ( Diagonal Mar and Gran Via ).

Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north.

Bayonne harbour is a stop over for yachts and boats crossing the Gulf of Biscay on their way from the UK to the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.

Most of the Iberian Peninsula had a similar Celtic language in pre-Roman times.

Therefore Latinos are Americans who are descendants of the Latin group ( namely Spain, France, Italy and Portugal ) and Hispanic refers to the descendants from the Iberian Peninsula ( also known as Ibero-American ).

During the 1st millennium BC, they were spoken across Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Atlantic and North Sea coastlines, up the Rhine valley and down the Danube valley to the Black Sea, the Upper Balkan Peninsula, and in Galatia in Asia Minor.

In various countries, the citadels gained a specific name such as " Kremlin " in Russia or " Alcazaba " in the Iberian Peninsula.

Examples of Chalcolithic cultures in Europe include Vila Nova de São Pedro and Los Millares on the Iberian Peninsula.

The clavichord was very popular from the 16th century to the 18th century, but mainly flourished in German-speaking lands, Scandinavia, and the Iberian Peninsula in the latter part of this period.

Bruhn mentions a battle ( also mentioned by Fabricius ) taking place on September 10, 1217 between Christian knights and Moor warriors on the Iberian Peninsula near the castle Alcazar, where it is said that a golden cross on white appeared in the sky, to bring victory to the Christians.

Elsewhere during the Middle Ages, Islamic science and mathematics flourished under the Islamic caliphate established across the Middle East, extending from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Indus in the east and to the Almoravid Dynasty and Mali Empire in the south.

Most White Ecuadorans are of colonial era Spanish origin, also known as criollos ( literally meaning " localSpaniards ", as opposed to " Peninsulares ", which were Spaniards born in the Iberian Peninsula in Spain ).

In 1086, the Almoravid invasion of the Iberian Peninsula through and around Gibraltar began.

The Gibraltar area and the rest of the South Iberian Peninsula was part of the Byzantine Empire during the second part of the 6th century, later reverting to the Visigoth Kingdom.

Therefore, Gibraltar became the main Marinid port in the Iberian Peninsula.

This recipe is very old in the Iberian Peninsula going back to Roman times.

Honorius granted the Visigoths Aquitania, where they defeated the Vandals and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula by 475.

The Visigothic kingdom lasted until 711 under Roderic, when it fell to the Muslim Umayyad invasion of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ).

During the first decades, Asturian control over the different areas of the kingdom was still weak, and for this reason it had to be continually strengthened through matrimonial alliances with other powerful families from the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

During the first decades, the Asturian dominion over the different areas of the kingdom was still lax, and for this reason it had to be continually strengthened through matrimonial alliances with other powerful families from the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

During the first decades, the Asturian dominion over the different areas of the kingdom was still lax, and for this reason it had to be continually strengthened through matrimonial alliances with other powerful families from the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

During Visigothic times, the city had served as a bishopric, and incorporating the city into Asturias brought legitimacy to the Asturian monarchs who sought to lead a unified Iberian church, during a time when most of the Iberian Peninsula was governed by Muslim powers.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés ( 15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574 ) was an Asturian ( northern region in the Iberian Peninsula ) admiral and explorer, best remembered for founding St. Augustine, Florida in 1565.

West Iberian ( or Hispano-Iberian ) is a branch of the Romance languages which includes Navarro-Aragonese, Castilian, Ladino, Astur-Leonese ( Asturian, Leonese, and Mirandese, but also Extremaduran and Cantabrian ), and the modern descendants of Galician-Portuguese ( Galician, Portuguese, and the Fala language ).

Twelve years of campaigning on the Galician frontier were concluded in 1143 by the Treaty of Zamora, in which Afonso was recognized as independent of any other Iberian sovereign, although he promised to be a faithful vassal of the Pope and to pay him a yearly tribute of four ounces of gold.

It was at first a general term that embraced the various dialects of Iberian Romance spoken in the area, including the forebears of modern Portuguese, Galician, Castilian and Catalan.

Originating in Iberia, the most widely spoken Iberian Romance languages are Castilian, Portuguese, Catalan and Galician.

By 1128, the Archbishop of Braga and the main Portuguese feudal nobles had had enough of her persistent Galician alliance, which the first feared could favour the ecclesiastical pretensions of his new rival the Galician Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, who had just started to assert his pretensions to an alleged discovery of relics of Saint James in his town, as his way to gain power and riches over the other cathedrals in the Iberian Peninsula.

Dasmariñas literally means " from the marines " in the Galician language ( NW of Iberian Peninsula ).

Galician-Portuguese (, ), also known as Medieval Galician or Old Portuguese, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula.

The term " Galician-Portuguese " also designates the subdivision of the modern West Iberian group which is composed by Galician, Portuguese, and the Fala language.

He accepted the autonomy granted to Galicia by the Second Spanish Republic as a tool to construct a possible Galician State, in federation with other Iberian nations.

Some historians argue that in fact there were two different persons with a similar name, one as Juan Hispano ( Ibn Dawud ) and other as Juan Hispalense, this last one perhaps working at Galician Limia ( Ourense ), for he signed himself as " Johannes Hispalensis atque Limiensis ", during the Reconquista, the Christian campaign to regain the Iberian Peninsula.

A 1973 study by Pedro Iglesias estimated more than 20, 000 Galician ponies are free in the mountains of Northwestern Iberian Peninsula.

The vast majority of Filipinos have Spanish, Basque, and Galician surnames, but such surnames does not indicate Iberian ancestry.

The name Ximenes itself is thought to derive as both surname and place name from the common Iberian territory of Galicia, since Lusophone linguists believe the Galician language is the forebear of both Modern Portuguese and Modern Spanish.

Jürgen Untermann considered the most plausible, coinciding with archaeological evidence put forward by Ruiz-Galvez in 1998, that the Celtic settlement of the Iberian Peninsula was made by people who arrived via the Atlantic Ocean in an area between French Brittany and the mouth of the River Garona, finally settling along the Galician and Cantabrian coast.