The Islamic-ruled territory of the Iberian Peninsula, encompassing the Umayyad Emirate and Caliphate of Córdoba, the most sophisticated civilization in medieval Europe at its height.
Ended in 1492 when the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim polity in Iberia, surrendered to the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, completing the Reconquista.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Al-Andalus — the shape you scrub through changes in 711 · 800 · 930.
Accessible cultural history of Islamic Iberia's role as Europe's most sophisticated medieval civilization.
Standard academic survey covering both Christian and Muslim Iberia from late antiquity to 1350.