Musa ibn-Nusayr (640–715)

Muslim governor of Ifriqiya (Roman Africa) in 698 or 699. By 709 he had conquered North Africa. His deputy, Tariq, began a successful invasion of Spain in 710 and Musa ibn-Nusayr followed him in 712, conquering most of the country up to Zaragoza in the northeast. He incurred the anger of the caliph of Damascus and left Spain in 714, dying in poverty in the Hejaz (Saudi Arabia).