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===Background=== Muslim and Christian sources quote that while Musa bin Nusayr was eager to cross the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] to Hispania, he determined to do so only when a Visigoth nobleman, [[Julian, Count of Ceuta]], had encouraged him to invade Iberia, telling him of the people's sufferings and the injustice of their king, [[Roderic]], while giving him cause for conquest by telling him of the riches that would be found, and of the many palaces, gardens and beauties of Hispania. Legend tells that Julian wished for the fall of the Visigothic kingdom because his daughter, [[Florinda la Cava]], had been raped by Roderic.<ref name="Lewis2009">{{cite book|author-link=David Levering Lewis|first=David Levering |last=Lewis|title=God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zxuar_ISdcUC&pg=PA119|date=12 January 2009|publisher=W. W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-06790-3|pages=119β120}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Sword of Islam: A.D. 565 to 740 : the Muslim Onslaught All But Destroys Christendom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sdrb9ABIkIC&pg=PA243|year=2004|publisher=Christian History Project|isbn=978-0-9689873-4-6|page=243}}</ref>
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