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The Moor in Africa and Europe...origins and definitions
IT is generally assumed that the movement of Africans into Europe, in significantly large numbers and into positions of real power, did not occur until the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711 AD.
In AI-Makkary’s History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain, however, we learn of a great drought that afflicted Spain about three thousand years ago, a catastrophe that was followed not long afterwards by an invasion from Africa.
This, of course, had nothing to do with the medieval Moors, with which this book is primarily concerned, but it is worth noting here because it actually established an ancient African dynasty in Spain, a fact that is omitted from the official histories.
The drought that devastated Spain, however, is described by a number of Spanish historians.
Pedro de Medina in Libra de las Grandezas de Espana, published in Seville in 1549, dates the drought at 1070 BC. Ibn-1-Khattib AIMakkary (in his major historical work, translated by Pascual de Gayangos 1 ) describes it in some detail.
It is AI-Makkary, also, who informs us of how, Africans banished from North Africa by an African king against whom they revolted, entered Spain and took control of that country.
The leader of the Africans is recorded as Batrikus. What his original name was, we do not know but it survives as Batrikus in the Latin of the Romans because it was the Romans who defeated these Africans 157 years later.
These Africans first set anchor at a place on the western shore of Spain and settled at Cadiz. Advancing into the interior of the country, they spread themselves about; extended their settlements, built cities and towns and increased their numbers through marriage.
They settled in that part of the country between the place of their landing in the west, and the country of the Franks in the east, and appointed kings to rule over them and administer their affairs.
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