 From the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711CE until the end of the "Reconquista" in 1492 the majority of the Iberian Peninsula came to be dominated by the Muslim state of Al-Andalus.During this period there were significant Christian and Jewish communities living under Muslim rule who were allowed to continue to practice their religion more or less freely.However, the so-called ‘Martyrs of Córdoba’ – about forty-eight Christians – were executed in Córdoba between 850 and 859 by Muslim authorities.