The Sharq al-Andalus (Arabic: شرق الاندلس) is defined as the eastern lands of al-Andalus, territories that have lived under a political power of acceptance of Islam as a belief and as a political structure and that geographically would include the territories of Murcia, the Valencian Community, New Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. During the Islamic period, the cartographer al-Idrisi outlined the division between Gharb al-Andalus and Sharq al-Andalus on his maps.[1]
Most of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula was carried out through treaties, such as the Treaty of Theodemir (Tudmir to the Arabs), a Visigoth nobleman and lord of extensive lands around Orihuela. Theodemir recognised Muslim sovereignty and agreed to pay tribute in exchange for keeping his properties.[2]
- ^ Sharq al-Andalus, estudios Mudéjares y Moriscos (in Spanish). Centro de Estudios Mudéjares. 1996. p. 149.
- ^ Delgado, Juan de Dios de la Rada y (1875). Antigüedades del Cerro de los Santos en término de Montealegre (in Spanish). Imprenta de T. Fortanet. p. 150.