Umayyad Conquest of Hispania - Aftermath

Aftermath

The conquest led to a period of several hundred years in which the Iberian peninsula was the province of Al-Andalus, dominated by Muslim rulers, and with only a handful of small Christian states surviving in the mountainous north. In 756, Abd ar-Rahman I, a survivor of the then-recently overthrown Umayyad Dynasty, seized power in Al-Andalus, founding an independent dynasty that survived until the 11th century. The Almoravide (1002 AD) and Almohad (1138) dynasties followed until 1269 when the Marinids took over. The Muslim possessions in Spain fragmented into small emirates (taifas). As result, they continued to receive the onslaught of the Reconquista. The last Muslim stronghold of Granada fell in 1492.