Editing Al-Walid I (section)

====Western frontiers====
{{see also|Muslim conquest of Spain}}

In the west, al-Walid's governor in [[Ifriqiya]] (central [[North Africa]]), [[Musa ibn Nusayr]], another holdover from Abd al-Malik's reign, subjugated the [[Berbers]] of the [[Hawwara]], [[Zenata]] and [[Kutama]] confederations and advanced on the [[Maghreb]] (western North Africa).{{sfn|Lévi-Provençal|1993|p=643}} In 708 or 709, he conquered [[Tangier]] and [[Sous|Sus]], in the far north and south of modern-day Morocco.{{sfn|Lévi-Provençal|1993|p=643}}{{sfn|Kaegi|2010|p=15}} Musa's Berber {{Transliteration|ar|[[mawla]]}} (freedman or client; pl. {{Transliteration|ar|mawali}}), [[Tariq ibn Ziyad]], invaded the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] of [[Al-Andalus|Hispania]] (the Iberian Peninsula) in 711, and was reinforced by Musa in the following year.{{sfn|Lévi-Provençal|1993|p=643}} By 716, a year after al-Walid's death, Hispania [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania|had been largely conquered]].{{sfn|Kennedy|2004|p=104}} The massive war spoils netted by the conquests of Transoxiana, Sind and Hispania were comparable to the amounts accrued in the Muslim conquests during the reign of Caliph [[Umar]] ({{reign|634|644}}).{{sfn|Blankinship|1994|p=82}}