1714 is a well-established and significant date in the history of Catalonia. A thousand years earlier, in 714, it should also be remembered as a milestone: it is when Berber and Arab Muslims completed the conquest of the entire Iberian Peninsula in what is now Catalan lands (only Galician, Basque, and some Pyrenean territories remained untouched). The invaders then continued north: Narbonne (720), Toulouse (721), and Carcassonne and Nîmes (725). In present-day Catalonia, Girona and Barcelona offered no resistance, but Tarragona did, and was destroyed and abandoned, as did Badalona, ​​Mataró, Terrassa, and possibly Empúries. All of these areas became part of Al-Andalus—there is much debate about the correct spelling—within the Islamic Umayyad Empire, governed from the city of Damascus, now in Syria.