Daily Archives: January 2, 2016


The Reconquest of Spain is completed with the fall of the Emirate of Granada.  By 1482, Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula was limited to the Emirate of Granada. Covering the southern most coast of modern day Spain, the Emirate was the remaining fragment of an aggressive expansion that had come close to taking the whole of Iberia. In 1482, the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and […]

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