The Battle of Guadalete ; in 711 or 712 AD; at an unidentified location between the Christian Visigoths of Hispania under their king; Roderic; and an invading force of Muslim Arabs and Berbers under the Berber commander Tariq ibn Ziyad. It marked the beginning of the Islamic conquest of Hispania.
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