Located on the Costa de la Luz (Coast of Light), across the Straits of Gibraltar, Tarifa is the southernmost point of the European continent, situated south of the African capital cities of Tunis and Algiers. As Ana say, from here started Arabs the conquest of the Visigothic Hispania. In July 710 AD, the Umayyad general Tariq ibn Ziyad sent one of his commanders, Tarif ibn Malik, on a raid to test the southern coastline of the Iberian peninsula. "One hundred Arabs and four hundred Africans passed over, in four vessels, from Tangier or Ceuta; the place of their descent on the opposite shore of the strait is marked by the name of Tarif their chief", writted Edward Gibbon about this raid. Tarif returned with plunder and captives, and convinced Tariq that Iberia could be successfully invaded. The Moors will possess smaller or larger teritories of the Iberian Peninsula for nearly eight centuries.
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