The+Fundation+of+Madrid+by+the+muslims

This page has been created by the studentsTania Rodriquez and Raquel Martinez.

The first date that is known about the Muslim Domination of Madrid is an indeterminate date between the years 860 and 880 when the [|Emir] [|Muhammad I] ordered a fotress-castle (a [|Ribat]) to be built in a hill in the place where currently is located the [|Royal Palace of Madrid].The Ribat was a fortress-castle in which a small village was created inside of the wall that surrounded it. There the Muslims took refuge to avoid being conquered by the Christians who were trying to reconquer the territories of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied by the Muslims. Its function was to watch the [|Manzanares] waterway thereby being the defense for Toledo that was the [|Visitgoth] Capital.

The name of Madrid comes from the former name of the village that was inside the Ribat, Mayrit. After the Christian Reconquest it changed its name into the one of Magerit and after a long time it has changed its name into the nowadays one, Madrid.

So the Real Palace of Madrid that during the domination of the Muslims was the Ribat is the main part of the foundation of Madrid.