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OCR: he only nation in western Europe r dominated by Islam, Spain il recently was odd man out on T eve unt ent. Its unique path began in the contin entury, when this former pos- the 8th ce the Roman and Visigoth em-session of conquered by Muslim Morocco. pires was c the Umayyad dynasty, al- Under is Spain was called, became the Andalus, a ost sophisticated part of Europe. richest, mo olars preserved the knowledge Islamic sch eks even as the rest of the con- of the Gre guished in the Dark Ages. tinentlang Christian kingdoms (Navarre, Three C nd Castile) ruled most of the Aragon, ax from the 11th to the 15th cen- peninsula a reunited Spain under King tury, when and Queen Isabella went on a Ferdinand