The Rise and Fall of Al-Andalus | What Was the Reconquista?

What was the Reconquista? For over seven centuries an assortment of Muslim powers ruled parts of Iberia, which they called al-Andalus, but during all of that time, things were never static on the peninsula.

Under the Umayyad Dynasty, al-Andalus was conquered from the Christian Visigoths, under the Emirate of Cordoba, it experienced a golden age, and under the Nasrid Granadans, it survived for 200 years despite the triumph of Christianity elsewhere. Though, by 1492 the last Muslim state on the peninsula, the Emirate of Granada, had been destroyed; replaced by Spain's modern Christian order.


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