The Guadalete (Spanish: [ɡwaðaˈlete] ) is a river located almost entirely in the Spanish Province of Cádiz, rising in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural...
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The Battle of Guadalete was the first major battle of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, fought in 711 at an unidentified location in what...
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and the Umayyad invasion. He was defeated and killed at the Battle of Guadalete. His widow Egilona is believed to have married Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa, the...
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victory when Roderic was defeated and killed on July 19 at the Battle of Guadalete. Ṭāriq Bin Ziyad split his army into four divisions, which went on to...
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Spain. It is located on the northern, western and southern banks of the Guadalete river, which flows around three sides of the city under towering vertical...
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USS Dynamic (AM-432) (redirect from Spanish minesweeper Guadalete (M41))
Assistance Program to serve as Guadalete (M41). Dynamic was struck from the Naval Register on 1 August 1974. Guadalete was reclassified PVZ-41 in 1980;...
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territory of Roman Hispania. After defeating king Roderic at the Battle of Guadalete in July the same year, Tariq was reinforced by an Arab force led by his...
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as dangerous as the local myths described. In Cádiz, Spain, the river Guadalete was originally named "Lethe" by local Greek and Phoenician colonists who...
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thus began the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. Later, in the Battle of Guadalete on July 19, Roderic's army of around 25,000 men was defeated by Tariq's...
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Kaula al-Yahudi Born c. 685 Died 718 Lerida, Catalonia Allegiance Umayyad Caliphate Battles/wars Battle of Guadalete...
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