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Al-Walid I, son of Abd al-Malik, reigned over the territorial apogee of the Umayyad caliphate: conquest of Spain (711, by Tariq ibn Ziyad and Musa ibn Nusayr), Transoxiana (Qutayba ibn Muslim) and the Indus Valley (Muhammad ibn al-Qasim). Built the great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
Birthin 668 in Medina
Deathin 715 in Ghouta