in 1492. The closing stages of the Reconquista, or the Christian reconquest of Islamic Spain, coincided with the Inquisition, an institution within the Roman Catholic Church that was sanctioned by ...

It is expected to receive 29-37 per cent of the vote. The Reconquista, meaning the ‘reconquering’, draws on the history of the Iberian Christian conquest of Muslim Spain, which ended in 1492. Vox’s ...

Gracia said the far-right uses the concept of "Reconquista," or reconquest, and related historical events to justify reclaiming Spanish lands ... kingdom of Granada in 1492 and who were forced ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Cathedral of Córdoba has become a battleground in the campaign to reduce the influence of the Church in Spain and beyond ... history, the Reconquista is certainly a cause ...

back to text Reconquista: (Spanish) A term applied to a series of disjointed military campaigns (from 1085-1248, and again from the 1480s to 1492) in which the Christians of Iberia sought to gain ...

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS after the fall of Granada, the last emirate of Al-Andalus, a mosque had risen in the city in 2003 — the first to be constructed in Spain since La Reconquista of 1492.

“Recalling the pivotal events of 1492 in Spain compels us to recognize the complexity of patterns of hate and the urgency of addressing them.” Just a few weeks ago, I stood in awe in the ...