Andalus

Arab Islamic Republic of Andalusia جمهورية الأندلس العربية الإسلامية (Arabic) Ǧmhwryة āl'أndls āl'Rbyة āl'إslāmyة
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Motto: حتى الابتسامة يمكن أن تكون صدقة Even a smile can be charity.
Anthem: لتحلم بالجنة To Dream of Paradise
Location	Southwestern Europe
Capital and largest city	Cordova
Official languages	Arabic
Recognized languages	Castillian, Galician, Basque
Religion	72.1% Sunni Islam 10.4% Catholicism 9.3% No religion 6.2% Shia Islam 2% Others
Demonym(s)	Andalusian
Government	Unitary parliamentary republic
• President	Hatim Mustafa
• Prime Minister	Débora Galan
• Speaker of Parliament	Khaled Idris
Legislature	Parliament
Area
• Total	583,254 km2 (225,196 sq mi)
• Water (%)	2.09
Population
• Estimate	62.3 million
• Density	106.81/km2 (276.6/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	$2.53 trillion
• Per capita	40,609
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$2.26 trillion
• Per capita	36,276
Gini	34.1 medium
HDI	0.909 very high
Currency	Euro (EUR)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Date format	dd-mm-yyy (CE)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+34
Internet TLD	.an

Andalusia, or Andalus (Arabic: الأندلس, romanized: āl-أndls, al'Andalus), officially the Arab Islamic Republic of Andalusia, is a country in southwestern Europe with some territories in the Mediterranean Sea, including the Balaric archipelago, however most of the population and land area is situated in the Hiberican peninsula. The country is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterannean Sea; to the north by Occitania and the Bay of Gallae; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

With a population of 62.3 million as of 2022, Andalusia is Europe's largest Muslim majority country by land area and population; and is also Europe's third most populated country, as well as being the only Muslim majority country in Western Europe. One of the oldest lasting countries in Europe, Andalusia can trace its origins back to the Umayyad Caliphate's conquest of Visigothic Hispania starting in 711, which established the formerly Roman Hispania as a province of the Arab Caliphate, however following the Abbasid overthrow of the Umayyads, it declared itself an independent emirate and later its own caliphate under the Umayyads. Andalus reached its golden age under Caliph Abd al-Rahman II, and its capital of Cordova continued to be one of the largest and most cultured cities in Western Europe before Andalusia's slow decline over the centuries. It successfully defended from Christian crusades from neighboring Francia in the 11th century, and following a crushing defeat of the Templars at Pampiluna, retained political dominance over the Hiberican peninsula for over four centuries until the mid 1400s, when a Berber-led revolt resulted in the establishment of the Berber Emirate of Seville- Hiberica continued to be ruled by succeeding emirates, sultanates, and caliphates until the 1960s, when following the Andalusian Revolution of 1964, the Emirate of Andalusia was overthrown and replaced with an Arab socialist regime led by Asyan Salahuddin, under his regime, the country experienced great economic growth and pursued closer ties with the rest of the Arab world, including Iraq and Libya, however following a coup by Ubadah Abdulla in 1987, it became an Islamist state led as a dictatorship by Ubadah until 2006, when he was overthrown and replaced by Andalusia's modern day government.