Musa bin Nusair (640—716) was a Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads. In 698 he was made the viceroy of North Africa and was responsible for putting down a large Berber rebellion. He also had to deal with constant harassment from the Byzantine navy and he built a navy that would go on to conquer the islands of Ibiza, Majorca, and Minorca. Events May 28 - Severinus becomes pope, but dies the same year. ... Events April 19 - The monastery on the Island of Iona celebrates Easter on the Roman date. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... The Umayyad Dynasty (Arabic الأمويون / بنو أمية umawiyy; in Turkish, Emevi) was the first dynasty of caliphs of the Prophet Muhammad who were not closely related to Muhammad himself, though they were of the same Meccan tribe, the Quraish. ... Events Tiberius III deposes Leontius II and becomes Byzantine Emperor. ... The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ... Flag of Eivissa Eivissa or Ibiza is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. ... Majorca (Mallorca in Catalan and Spanish, sometimes also encountered in English),: from Latin insula maior, later Maiorica, (major island) is one of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Illes Balears, Spanish: Islas Baleares), which are located in the Mediterranean Sea and are a part of Spain. ... Flag of Minorca Minorca (Menorca both in Catalan and Spanish and increasingly in English usage; from Latin insula minor, later Minorica minor island) is one of the Balearic Islands (Illes Balears Catalan official name, Islas Baleares in Spanish), located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. ...

In Spain there was internal fighting among the Visigoths. Among the factions were the sons of a recently deceased king who felt that they had unfairly been stripped of power. They appealed to Musa to intervene in their civil war, and Musa obliged. He sent his deputy, Tariq bin Ziyad, to Spain, whose armies landed at Gibraltar on April 30, 711, from whence they proceeded to take most of Spain. Their major victory came in September of the same year when the Muslim armies defeated Roderic at the Guadalete River. The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ... Tariq ibn Ziyad (d. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... See also: phone number 711. ... Roderic (Roderick; Rodrigo in Spanish and Portuguese, see Rurik for etymology), is reputed to be the last king of the Visigoths (709—711). ... The Guadalete River is a small stream located in the Spanish province of Cádiz, arising in the Grazalema Mountains at an elevation of about 1000 m, and running for 172 km into the Bay of Cádiz at El Puerto de Santa Maria, south of the city of C...

Musa joined Tariq in 712 and led armies into Southern France, where he annexed some land. Musa was planning an invasion of the rest of Europe when he was recalled to Damascus by Al-Waleed. Al-Waleed would die soon after and Musa would be jailed by his successor, Suleiman, who would have Musa executed in 716. The reasoning behind this was that Suleiman saw Musa as a threat. But perhaps it was a personal vendetta. Events Ansprand succeeds Aripert as king of the Lombards. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Damascus by night, pictured from Jabal Qasioun; the green spots are minarets Damascus (Arabic officially دمشق Dimashq, colloquially ash-Sham الشام) is the capital city of Syria and is the oldest inhabited city in the world. ... Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik or Al-Walid I (668 - 715) was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 705 - 715. ... Suleiman bin Abd al-Malik (c. ...

According to American writer Washington Irving, in the "Legend of the Subjugation of Spain," a part of his 1835 Legends of the Conquest of Spain, Musa (Muza) and Tariq (Taric) feuded because each regarded the other as stealing his rightful glory. Their conflict reached the ear of Caliph al Waleed (Waled Almanzor). Both North African leaders were therefore summoned by the caliph to Damascus. Tariq arrived first. But then the caliph took ill. So the caliph's brother, Suleiman ben Abdelmelec, asked Musa, who was arriving with a cavalcade of soldiers and spoils, to delay his grand entry into the city until Waleed recovered. But Musa dismissed this request, triumphally entered Damascus anyway, and brought his case before the ailing Waleed. After hearing from both Musa and Tariq, the caliph concluded that Musa, as emir, had wronged his subordinate general, Tariq, by taking all the credit. Waleed then died a few days later and was succeeded by his brother Suleiman, who soon demanded that Musa deliver up all his spoils. When Musa complained, Suleiman stripped him of his rank, confiscated his possessions, had him publicly scourged, and threw him in prison. Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ...

His son was Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

External links

• Ibn Abd-el-Hakem, Medieval Sourcebook: The Islamic Conquest of Spain
• Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 51