  the battle of guadalete was fought in 711 or 712 at an unidentified location between the christian visigoths of hispania under their king, roderic, and an invading force of muslim arabs and berbers under the berber commander á¹¬Äriq ibn ziyad. the battle was significant as the culmination of a series of berber attacks and the beginning of the islamic conquest of hispania. in the battle roderic probably lost his life, along with many members of the visigothic nobility, opening the way for the capture of visigothic capital of toledo. the battle is sometimes referred to as the battle of jerez de la frontera,http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php?do_id=1305&lang=en battle of la janda, battle of the rÃ­o barbate, or battle of the transductine promontories. ==sources== the primary source for the battle is the mozarabic chronicle, which was written shortly after 754 probably in the vicinity of toledo.roger collins (1989), the arab conquest of spain, 710&ndash;97 (london: blackwell publishing), 26&ndash;27, argues for its toledan provenance, but others have suggested cÃ³rdoba or even syria. a full study of the mozarabic chronicle is given in carmen cardelle de hartmann (1999), "the textual transmission of the mozarabic chronicle of 754", early medieval europe, 8 (1), 13&ndash;29. the latin chronicle was written by a mozarab christian. the only other latin christian source written within a century of the battle is the historia langobardorum of paul the deacon.paul, vi.xlvi, only adds the fact that the "saracens" came to hispania from ceuta. paul was neither visigothic nor hispanic, but was writing probably in montecassino between 787 and 796, where many visigothic monks had taken refuge. the chronicle of 741 is a near-contemporary hispanic source, but it contains no original material pertaining to the b
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