On this day (19 July, 711 CE), the Battle of Guadalete was fought between the Christian Visigoths of Hispania under King Roderic and the Umayyad Caliphate under the military commander Tariq bin Ziyad.
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Battle of Guadalete was the first major battle of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.The two armies met at the battlefield of Guadalete where King Roderic was defeated and killed by Tariq Bin Ziyad.
After the first victory, the Muslim conquest of Spain was well underway, with the army continuing to conquer most of Spain and Portugal with little difficulty, and in fact with little opposition.
By 720 Spain was largely under Muslim control.
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