“The Loss of Spain” — 711 AD History remembers this moment as the Perdida de España — the fall of the Visigothic kingdom and the rise of Al-Andalus. When the Black African Moors entered Iberia under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr and Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, the old Visigothic order collapsed. This was not chaos — it was the transfer of power. The Chronicle of 754, written by a Christian eyewitness, confirms it clearly: “Spain was taken by the Arabs and Moors sent by Musa.” What followed was nearly eigh