Look up: Reconquista

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   Reconquista
   Christian defeat of the Moors 9th-15th centuries, and their expulsion from Spain. Spain was conquered by the Muslims between 711 and 728, and its reconquest began with Galicia, Leon, and Castile....
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   Reconquista
   The `Reconquista` (Spanish and Portuguese for `Reconquest`) was the period of 750 years in which Christians re-captured the Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Portugal and Spain) from the Muslim Moorish states of Al-ÃÂ?ndalus . The Umayyad conquest of Hispania from the Visigoths occurred during the early 8th century, and the `Reconquista` began almost immediately, in 722, with the Battle of Covadonga, and was completed in 1492, with the conquest of G...
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   Reconquista
   in medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of ... [10 related articles]
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