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When the heirs of the Visigothic king, Witiza, requested help from the Moors of N Africa against the usurper Roderick , Tarik, with his Moorish army, crossed (711) from Africa to Gibraltar (originally named for him, in Arabic, Jebel-al-Tarik; i.e., Tarik's mountain).

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