Description

The history of the Spanish Peninsula is closely bound to that of the Moors The term Spain was not in wide use until the region was united by the monarchs of Aragon and Castile and the Moors called the lands they ruled in the Iberian Peninsula AlAndalus traditionally thought to be an Arabic transliteration of Vandal the Germanic tribe which briefly ruled the region in the early fifth century The English name Andalusia derives from the Spanish Andalucia which is still used by Spain to name its southern region