Question

are a Muslim people of mixed Arab and Berber stock coming from northwestern Africa. They invaded Spain and occupied it for 700 years.

Answer 1

These are the Mourus. From the year 711 the Iberian Peninsula witnesses one of its most important events: the Muslim invasion, responsible for a radical change in the economic, social and cultural panorama of what would later be Portugal and Spain.

The invaders actually constituted a mixed force consisting of Syrians, Egyptians, Persians and Berbers, that is, a joint force of the entire Islamic world at the time, which was in full expansion. Commanded by a Tarique, such forces cross the Strait of Gibraltar, and penetrate deeply into the Peninsula occupying it almost entirely about three years later.