In 711, the Moors, a Berber and Arab army, invaded and conquered nearly the entire peninsula.

One of them claims that samba came from the word Zumba or Zamba, both coming from Arabic, from when the Moors invaded the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century.

This was an era in European history when nations were being invaded by many different groups ; there were Saracens in the south, Magyars in the east, Moors in the west, and Vikings in the north.

In Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, R. C. Bell writes that " when the Moors invaded Spain they took El-quirkat with them ".

At the same time, the Moors ( consisting of Arabs and Berbers ) invaded Europe via Gibraltar ( conquering Hispania — the Iberian Peninsula — from the Visigothic Kingdom in 711 ), before being halted by the Franks at the Battle of Tours in 732.

When the Moors invaded and occupied Spain from the 8th century to the end of the 15th, the region was called " Al-Andalus ".

Barbarian dominion lasted until the Moors invaded from North Africa, defeating the Visigoth King Roderic at the beginning of the 8th century.

Early Christian influences persisted for several centuries, until the Moors and Arab Berber peoples ( from North Africa ) invaded the entire Peninsula ( except for a portion of Asturian mountains of northern Spain ).

Many Sephardic Jews were actually Moors, during when the Moors invaded Spain in 711 C. E.

In 711, Arab ( Moors ) from the North of Africa invaded southern Spain.

Around the year 711, Hispania was invaded by the Moors from the Maghreb, inaugurating a period of great influence of Islamic culture in the Alentejo region that would last nearly 500 years.

The area currently encompassed by the Getafe municipal district was invaded by the Moors in the 8th century.

He was a vassal of the King of Asturias, Léon and Galicia, Alfonso III, and was sent to reconquer and secure from the Moors ( Arabs and Berbers who had invaded Visigothic Hispania ), in the west coastal fringe of Gallaecia, the area from the Minho River to the Douro River, including the city of Portus Cale, later Porto and Gaia, from where the name of Portugal emerged.

In 711 AD the Moors invaded Spain through Gibraltar and would occupy the region of Alicante by 718 AD.

In 711 AD, Spain was invaded by Arabic-speaking Muslims from North Africa, sometimes known as Moors ( moros in Spanish ).

Afonso then turned his arms against the persistent problem of the Moors in the south.

To honour those women who defended the town of Tortosa against an attack by the Moors, Ramon Berenguer IV, then count of Barcelona, created the order of the Hatchet ( orden de la Hacha ) in 1149.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

Afonso then turned his arms against the persistent problem of the Moors in the south.

After the Portuguese annexed Malacca in August 1511, one Portuguese diary noted ' it is thirty years since they became Moors ' - giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Islamic and European influences in the region.

The recovered Virgin then miraculously helped to expel the Moors from Spain, and her small shrine evolved into the great Guadalupe monastery.

The turbulent history of the city saw it the subject of several Vandal sackings during the fall of the Roman Empire, then reconquered by the Byzantine, then colonised by the Moors ( who called it Medina Mayurqa ), and finally established by James I of Aragon.

But Bernardo then joined up with the Moors, hoping to force Alfonso into action ; but Alfonso secretly had Sancho killed while in prison.

The was lost to the Moors, but then blown up by an American raid led by Stephen Decatur.

After the Portuguese annexed Malacca in August 1511, one Portuguese diary noted ' it is thirty years since they became Moors '- giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Islamic and European influences in the region.

The settlement was shortly retaken by the Moors in 1137 and then in 1140.

The region of Santarém has been inhabited since pre-historic times, first by the Lusitani people, and then by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moors and Portuguese Christians.

The Romans were replaced by the Visigoths, and then, after 714, by the Moors.

As the plot is not woven around a single pivotal action, the inextricable maze of most cunningly contrived episodes are seen to be linked, first, with the quest of beautiful Angelica by love-smitten Orlando and the other enamoured knights, then with the defence of Albracca by Angelica's father, the King of Cathay, against the beleaguering Tartars, and, finally, with the Moors ' siege of Paris and their struggle with Charlemagne's army.

North to south these are: the Black Horse, the Black Bull, the Red Lion and the Squire Bassett ( changed to the Dogwood after new management, but then later back to the Squire Bassett ), as well as the King's Arms in the Moors, and the Six Bells in Mill Street.

It was claimed afterwards that he cut off and salted the heads of thirteen Moors who were slain aboard his ship, and then took them into Cadiz to claim a reward from the magistrates.

It then crosses the Yorkshire Dales, the Vale of York and the North York Moors to reach the North Sea coast at Robin Hood's Bay.

* The route then climbs to the edge of the North York Moors to join the Cleveland Way as it rises and falls to Clay Bank Top.

The site was originally a pagan temple, then a Visigothic Christian church, before the Umayyad Moors converted the building into a mosque and then built a new mosque on the site.

It was reconquered by the Order of Santiago in 1241 from the Moors, then, it belonged to the León's province as well as other parts of Extremadura.

Founded as a city in 1186 by King Alfonso VIII of Castile on the banks of the Jerte as a city-fortress, with the double purpose of colonizing and guarding the then south-western border of the Kingdom, it fell briefly to the Moors of Yaqub al-Mansur in 1196, being reconquered by the Christians the year after.

Ermenguer led a local fleet that, in 813, sailed to the Balearic Islands, then under the Moors.

In 1309 he captured Gibraltar from the Moors ( who had held it since 711 ) with the help of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán of Aragón.

Neighborhood celebrations are held in Cuernavaca, mostly for patron saints, they include include 15 May, the feast of San Isidro Labrador ; 13 June, the feast of San Antonio in the neighborhood of San Antón, with Aztec dances ; 6 August, the feast of the Savior or the Transfiguration in Ocotepec, featuring the Moors and Christians dance, mole, and pulque ; 10 August the feast of San Lorenzo in Chamilpa ; 15 August, the festival of the Assumption of Mary in Santa María Ahuacatilán ; and 8 September, Festival of Nuestra Señora de los Milagros in Tlaltenango.

In 714 AD Viseu was taken by the Moors who held it for almost a century.

Vienne was a target during the Migrations Period: it was taken by the Burgundians in 438, re-taken by the Romans and held for 35 years, by the Franks in 534, sacked by the Lombards in 558, and by the Moors in 737.

Those held by knight's service were: Little Mitton, Wiswell, Hapton, Towneley, Coldcoats, Snodworth, Twiston, Extwistle, Aighton, Great Mearley, Livesey, Downham, Foulridge, Little Mearley, Rishton, Billington, Altham, Great Harwood, Clayton le Moors, and Walton in le Dale

Starting in 806 the Moors of Spain began to contend for the island and held it for a short time but in 828 the Papacy assigned its defense to the margrave of Tuscany, a powerful state of the Holy Roman Empire nominally under the Kingdom of Italy.

* Ian Brady, held for theft prior to the Moors murders.

The Moors, meanwhile, made frequent sorties against our men by day because they held three gates against us.

The horses came together to Moors and Christians, are the Fiestas de Caravaca de la Cruz are held from 1 to 5 May in honor of the patron saint of the village, the Blessed.