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“Arabs and Moors sent by Musa” — 711 AD From the shores of North Africa, the armies of Musa ibn Nusayr crossed the straits into Iberia and changed the course of history forever. These were Black African Moors — Berber, Arabized, and Judaeo-Berber peoples of the Maghreb — disciplined cavalrymen, scholars, merchants, and commanders who brought a new era of culture, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and statecraft to the Iberian Peninsula. This wasn’t just a military campaign — it was the begin

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