The Andalusian country

  The Andalusian country today is located in Spain and Portugal. Or also commonly known as the Iberian Peninsula. The area of ​​both countries is about 600,000 km2, or less than 2/3 of Egypt. The Andalusian peninsula is separated by Morocco by a strait which, since the era of Islamic conquest, came to be known as the Gibraltar Strait, about 12.8 km wide between Sabtah (Ceuta) and Jabal Thariq (Gibraltar).

The Iberian Peninsula lies in the southwestern part of Europe, above the narrowed triangle as we travel eastward, and widen as we walk westwards. In the south, it borders France with a limited row of mountains known as the Bartat Mountains. Seawater surrounds this region from all directions which causes the Arabs to call it the Jazirah Al-Andalusia or the Andalusian Island. The Mediterranean covers it from east and southeast, then the Atlantic Sea covers it from the northwest, west and north sides.

So the Pyrenees is the only land border that connects this peninsula with Europe, because in the north it meets the Atlantic Ocean and in the south it meets the Mediterranean Sea (Mediterranean Sea). The Pyrenean mountains that divide between France and Spain make it look as if the peninsula turns its face back to Europe and leads towards Morocco. As for the inside of the peninsula itself, we are faced with a plateau known as Maseta, which is crossed by mountains horizontally, filled with many rivers flowing, as if it were living on the waterways