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When did the Moors spread?

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They spread SW into Africa (see Mauritania ) and NW into Spain. Under Tarik ibn Ziyad they crossed to Gibraltar in 711 and easily overran the crumbling Visigothic kingdom of Roderick . They spread beyond the Pyrenees into France, where they were turned back at Tours by Charles Martel (732).

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