As Al-Andalus was torn by internal power struggles, Asturias fought to survive—expanding northward while facing Moorish counterattacks and political rot at home. A king won victories abroad but turned ...

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In 1936 General Francisco Franco led an army of Moors and Legionnaires out of Africa to join in the Spanish Civil War that brought him to power. Ever since, lance-bearing, scarlet-robed Moorish ...