Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 29th of July 2018 to The Sounding Line.

As part of our ongoing series of historical video-maps, we present ‘Every Year of the Spanish Reconquista,’ from Youtube creator Ollie Bye. The following video details the Umayyad Caliphate’s rapid conquest of the Spanish peninsula and parts of modern day France beginning in the early 700s AD. The Umayyad expansion into Europe suffered its first major defeat in 721 at the Battle of Toulouse. A crushing Umayyad defeat ten years later at the Battle of Tours in France began a 760 year ‘reconquest’ of the Spanish peninsula by Christian forces. The last Islamic Kingdom in Spain, Granada, was defeated on January 2nd 1492, just 10 months before Columbus would discover the New World and birth the Spanish Empire. Many consider the Reconquista to be the longest continuous war in human history.

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