Reconquista (1 gen 721 anni – 1 gen 1249 anni)

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The Reconquista was the period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada to the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492. Traditional historiography has marked the beginning of the Reconquista with the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722), the first known victory in Iberia by Christian military forces since the 711 military invasion of Iberia by combined Arab-Berber forces. After a Muslim resurgence in the 12th Century the great Moorish strongholds in the south fell to Christian forces in the 13th Century, leaving only the Muslim enclave of Granada as a tributary state in the south. After 1491, the entire peninsula was controlled by Christian rulers. The conquest was followed by the Alhambra Decree in 1492 which expelled Jews who would not convert to Christianity from Castile and Aragon, and a series of edicts between 1499–1526 which forced the conversions of the Muslims in Spain, although later a significant part of them was expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.

Estimated Deaths: 7,000,000

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