date_of_death al-hurr ibn abd al-rahman al-thaqafi
The Visigoths were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths . These tribes flourished and spread during the late Roman Empire in Late Antiquity , or the Migration Period . The Visigoths emerged from earlier Gothic groups ( possibly the Thervingi ) who had invaded the Roman Empire beginning in ___MASK3___ and had defeated the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 . Relations between the Romans and the Visigoths were variable , alternately warring with one another and making treaties when convenient . The Visigoths invaded Italy under Alaric I and sacked Rome in 410 . After the Visigoths sacked Rome , they began settling down , first in southern Gaul and eventually in Spain and Portugal , where they founded the Visigothic Kingdom and maintained a presence from the 5th to the 8th centuries AD . The Franks ( or ') are historically first known as a group of Germanic tribes that inhabited the land between the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD , and second as the people of Gaul who merged with the Gallo - Roman populations during succeeding centuries , passing on their name to modern - day France and becoming part of the heritage of the modern French people . Some Franks raided Roman territory , while other Frankish tribes joined the Roman troops of Gaul . In later times , Franks became the military rulers of the northern part of Roman Gaul . With the coronation of their ruler Charlemagne as ' by Pope Leo III in ___MASK39___ AD , he and his successors were recognised as legitimate successors to the emperors of the Western Roman Empire . Aneto is the highest mountain in the Pyrenees and in Aragon , and Spain ' s third - highest mountain , reaching a height of . It stands in the Spanish province of Huesca , the northernmost of all three Aragonese provinces , ___MASK52___ miles south of the French border . It forms the southernmost part of the Maladeta massif . It is also still locally known as " Pic de Néthou " in French , that name and its variants having been in general use until the beginning of the 20th century . France , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France spans and had a total population of almost ___MASK21___ million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . Roussillon ( or ; ) is one of the historical counties of the former Principality of Catalonia , corresponding roughly to the present - day southern French " département " of Pyrénées - Orientales ( Eastern Pyrenees ). It may also refer to " Northern Catalonia " or " French Catalonia ", the first used by Catalan - speakers and the second used by French - speakers . A ___MASK29___ survey found that ___MASK66___ % of respondents stated they speak Catalan , and a further 21 % understand it . The Emirate of Córdoba ( Arabic :   , Imrah Quruba ) was an independent emirate in the Iberian Peninsula between ___MASK98___ and ___MASK23___ with Córdoba as its capital . The Pyrenees (, , , , or ) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain . Reaching a height of altitude at the peak of Aneto , the range separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe , and extends for about from the Bay of Biscay ( Cap Higuer ) to the Mediterranean Sea ( Cap de Creus ). Theodoric II ( Gothic : Þiudareiks II ), " Teodorico " in Spanish and Portuguese , ( ___MASK61___  early 466 ) was the eighth King of Visigoths from ___MASK14___ to 466 . The ( Spanish and Portuguese for the " reconquest ") is the period of history of the Iberian Peninsula spanning approximately ___MASK92___ years between the Islamic conquest of Hispania in 710 and the fall of the last Islamic state in Iberia at Granada to the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492 . The " ended just before the European discovery of the Americas  the " New World " which ushered in the era of the Portuguese and Spanish colonial empires . Septimania ( ) was the western region of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed under the control of the Visigoths in ___MASK65___ , when Septimania was ceded to their king , Theodoric II . Under the Visigoths it was known as simply Gallia or Narbonensis . It corresponded roughly with the modern French region of Languedoc - Roussillon . It passed briefly to the Emirate of Córdoba in the eighth century before its conquest by the Franks , who by the end of the ninth century termed it Gothia or the Gothic March (" Marca Gothica "). Languedoc ( Occitan : " Lengadòc " ) is a former province of France . Its territory is now contained in the modern - day region of Occitanie in the south of France . Its capital city was Toulouse . It had an area of approximately ___MASK60___ , ___MASK3___ square kilometers ( 10 , ___MASK51___ square miles ). Al - urr ibn Abd al - Ramn al - Thaqaf ( Arabic :       ) was an early Umayyad governor who ruled the Muslim province of Al - Andalus from between 716 to 718 . He was the third successor to Musa bin Nusair , the North African governor who had directed the conquest of Visigothic Spain several years earlier in ___MASK46___ . Al - Hurr was the first Muslim commander to cross the Pyrenees in 717 , leading a small raiding party into Septimania . His incursions were largely unsuccessful , for which he was deposed in 718 . Al - Andalus ( trans . Berber : " Andalus "), also known as Muslim Spain or Islamic Iberia , was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal . At its greatest geographical extent in the eighth century , southern France  Septimania  was briefly under its control . The name more generally describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Muslims ( given the generic name of Moors ) at various times between ___MASK46___ and ___MASK20___ , though the boundaries changed constantly as the Christian Reconquista progressed . Languedoc - Roussillon is a former administrative region of France . Since ___MASK64___ January 2016 , it is part of the new region Occitanie . It comprises five departments , and borders the other French regions of Provence - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur , Rhône - Alpes , Auvergne , Midi - Pyrénées on the one side , and Spain , Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea on the other side . It is the southernmost region of mainland France .