897 AH
Columbus, sailing for Spain, lands in the Bahamas. Within a century Spain and Portugal rule from Mexico to Brazil.
How it touches Islam Columbus wrote that he had watched the royal banners raised over the Alhambra that January, the month Muslim Spain ended.
Christopher ColumbusFerdinand and Isabella
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