The Visigothic kingdom collapsed following a conquest by Muslim armies crossing from North Africa in A.D. 711. This event ...

It was the capital of Spain twice in its history—once in the sixth century as the capital of the Spanish Visigothic Kingdom and later in the 16th century as the capital of the Spanish empire ...

Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the Christian kingdoms fighting the Moors and, in the 16th century, the ...