Meet the Black people who ruled Europe from 711-1789
- The Spanish occupation by the Moors began in 711 AD when an African army, under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from northern Africa and invaded the Iberian peninsula.
A European scholar sympathetic to the Spaniards remembered the conquest in this way:
''The reins of their horses were as fire, their faces black as pitch, their eyes shone like burning candles,
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