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Muslim commander, Tariq ibn Ziyad, crosses the Strait of Gibraltar, c. April 30, 711 CE, with a force of about 7,000–12,000 troops, mainly Berbers, beginning the Muslim conquest of Hispania and eventually placing most of the Iberian Peninsula (except for small areas in the north-west such as Asturias and the Basque territory) under Islamic rule and creating the entity known as al-Andalus. More