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Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
Callixtus II declares a crusade in Spain. [219] [186] 1123. 18 March. The First Council of the Lateran rules that the crusades to the Holy Land and the Reconquista of Spain were of equal standing, granting equal privileges. [220] 1124. Not earlier than. Historia Roderici, an early history of El Cid, is written. [221] 1125. 2 September.
A map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 highlighting the Crown of Castile.. Events of the year 1492 in Spain included the end of the Reconquista with the fall of Granada, the Jewish Diaspora of Spain due to the Alhambra Decree, and the start of Columbus' first voyage.
The Middle Ages in Spain are often said to end in 1492 with the final acts of the Reconquista in the capitulation of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada and the Alhambra decree ordering the expulsion of the Jews. Early modern Spain was first united as an institution in the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as Charles I of Spain.
Spain would go on to model its national aspirations as the guardian of Christianity and Catholicism. The fall of the Alhambra is still celebrated every year by the City Council of Granada, and the Granada War is considered in traditional Spanish historiography as the final war of the Reconquista .
The first years of Ferdinand and Isabella's joint rule saw the Spanish conquest of the Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic al-Andalus entity on the Iberian peninsula, completed in 1492. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The completion of the Reconquista was not the only significant act performed by Ferdinand and Isabella in that year.
The period from 1492, when the Reconquista was completed and the Spanish colonization of the Americas began, to the late 17th century is known as the Spanish Golden Age. Spain acquired a vast empire by defeating the centralised states of the Americas, and colonising the Philippines.
The picture shows the handing over of the keys of the city of Granada by Emir Muhammad XII (Boabdil) of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand on 2 January 1492. Characters depicted in the painting. The group of Christian conquerors is depicted on the right side of the painting, as seen from the viewer.