<P> In 711 , troops mostly formed by Moors from northern Africa led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania . The Iberian peninsula then came to be known in classical Arabic as Al - Andalus , which at its peak included most of Septimania and modern - day Spain and Portugal . </P>
<P> In 711 , troops mostly formed by Moors from northern Africa led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania . The Iberian peninsula then came to be known in classical Arabic as Al - Andalus , which at its peak included most of Septimania and modern - day Spain and Portugal . </P>
where did the moors in spain come from
where did the moors in spain come from
northern Africa
northern Africa