Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-25387190-20140926151715/@comment-25387190-20141114175808

Of course that Umayyad Caliphate was the main power on early 8th century and this empire can not compare with a Moorish empire. However, if we resort to the historical sources (in OTL) the conquest of the Iberian peninsula was made by Berbers. When Musa ibn Nusayr was called to Damascus, the Muslim conquests reached the cities of Lugo (in Galicia) and Lleida (in Catalonia). In addition, it would be possible than peripherical Visigothic nobility accepts Moorish Christianity because it is presented as a Christian branch with many similarities with Arianism, heresy that Visigoths were adherents before the Third Council of Toledo (589). The opposition should be in Catholic masses that would become in the Cartamunes (equivalent to Mozarabs in OTL).