Gibraltar
Tariq bin Ziyad, a local-convert Muslim and commander of Umayyad Army, was sent north of North Africa to extend their glorious victories further into the Europe. He used a mountain in southern Spain as a launching pad for all his attacks on local ruler. This hill is now named after him as Jabal-e-Tariq (anglicized as Gibraltar), which now exists as British's oversea territory. Tariq went as far as France in the north, but a defeat in Battle of Tours (732 CE) sealed fate of empire's conquest in Europe, else the history of Europe would have much different than Dark Ages (476 CE-1453 CE)!
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