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The Moors in Spain

by Stanley LANE-POOLE (1854 - 1931)

The Wave of Conquest

“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long catalogue of kingdoms subdued by the Moslems. For nearly eight centuries, under her Mohammedan rulers, Spain set to all Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened State. Her fertile provinces, rendered doubly prolific by the industry and engineering skill of her conquerors, bore fruit an hundredfold. Cities innumerable sprang up in the rich valleys of the Guadalquivir and the Guadiana, whose names, and names only, still commemorate the vanished glories of their past.” - Summary by Stanley Lane-Poole

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Listen next episodes of The Moors in Spain:
A Young Pretender , Bearing the Cross , My Cid The Challenger , The Berbers in Power , The Christian Martyrs , The City of the Khalif , The Fall of Granada , The Great Khalif , The Holy War , The Kingdom of Granada , The People of Andalusia , The Prime Minister