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The '''Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula''' ({{Lang-ar|فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس}}), also known as the '''Arab conquest of Spain''',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Breit |first=Michael |date=24 September 2009 |title=The Arab conquest of Spain, 710–797. By Roger Collins. (A History of Spain, Vol. III.) pp. xii, 239. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1989. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/arab-conquest-of-spain-710797-by-roger-collins-a-history-of-spain-vol-iii-pp-xii-239-oxford-basil-blackwell-1989/BDE8344ACC617939E4183B5FCFB88D67 |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=273–276 |doi=10.1017/S1356186300000651 |issn=1474-0591}}</ref> by the [[Umayyad Caliphate]] occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s. The conquest resulted in the defeat of the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] that controlled the peninsula and led to the establishment of the Umayyad [[Wilayah]] of [[Al-Andalus]].
During the caliphate of the sixth Umayyad caliph [[al-Walid I]] ({{Reign|705|715}}), military commander [[Tariq ibn Ziyad]] departed from [[North Africa]] in early 711 to cross the Straits of [[Gibraltar]], with a force of about 1,700 men, to launch a military expedition against the [[Visigothic Kingdom|Visigoth]]-controlled Kingdom of [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], which encompassed the former territory of [[Roman Hispania]].<ref name=":2"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAYXAQAAIAAJ&q=under+al+walid+ibn+abd+al+malik+tariq+ibn+ziyad|title=The book of Islamic dynasties: a celebration of Islamic history and culture|last=Nagy|first=Luqman|date=2008|publisher=Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd|isbn=9781842000915|pages=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKOkMyxXY3AC&q=Tariq+et+les+masmuda&pg=PA123 |title=Maroc et Espagne: une histoire commune publié par Fundación El Legado Andalusí |via=Books google |isbn=9788496395046 |access-date=26 May 2010|last1=Andalusí |first1=Fundación El Legado|publisher=Fundación El legado andalusì }}</ref><ref name=":1"/> After defeating
In 713, [[Theodemir]], the Visigothic count of [[Murcia]] conditionally surrendered, and in 715, [[Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa]] was named the first governor of [[Al-Andalus]], naming [[Seville]] as his capital. By 717, the [[Umayyad invasion of Gaul|Umayyads had invaded Gaul]] to launch their first raids into [[Septimania]]. By 719, [[Barcelona]] and [[Narbonne]] had also been captured. From 740 to 742, the invasion was then disrupted by the [[Berber Revolt]], and in 755, when an [[Abbasid]] force led by [[Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri]] landed to claim the territory from the Umayyads.
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