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RT Trad West (@trad_west_)You think it's over? In 722 Spain had fallen under Muslim rule.300 Christian warriors prepared to make a last stand. They had no kingdom, no empire, only faith, iron, and courage.By 722 AD, the Umayyad Caliphate had conquered almost the entire Iberian Peninsula. Spain was gone.But in the rugged mountains of Asturias, a small band of Christian resistance fighters refused to kneel.Led by the nobleman Don Pelayo, 300 warriors took a stand in the Cave of Covadonga. They faced a Moorish ...