A Short History of Spain

by Mary Platt Parmele

of the Saracen in Europe—The Germ

of a Christian Kingdom in the North of

Spain, [58]

CHAPTER X.

Pelayo and the Cave of Covadonga—Alfonso I.—Berbers

and Arabs at War on African Coast—War

Extends to Spain—The Omeyyad Khalifs

Superseded by the Abbasides—Abd-er-Rahman—Omeyyad

Dynasty Established at Cordova—Ineffectual

Attempt of the Abbasides to