The conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania commenced when the Moors ( Berbers , Arabs and north west Africans ) invaded Visigothic Christian Iberia ( modern Spain , Portugal , Andorra , Septimania ) in the year 711 .
The conquest of the Iberian Peninsula began when the Moors ( mostly Berbers with some Arabs ) invaded Visigothic Christian Iberia ( modern Spain , Portugal , Gibraltar , Andorra ) in the year 711 .