104 AH
Traditional date, disputed
In the mountains of Asturias, the Visigoth noble Pelayo beats back a small Muslim force. A tiny Christian kingdom survives in the far north.
How it touches Islam Spanish tradition counts the long Reconquista from here; it ended with the fall of Granada in 1492.
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
