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  1. 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, a...
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  2. 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]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/20

  3. Reconquista
    [Spanish America] In colonial Spanish America, the Reconquista refers to the period following the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 during which royalist armies were able to gain the upper hand in the Spanish American wars of independence. The term makes an analogy to the medieval Reconquista, in w...
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  4. Reconquista
    [Mexico] The term Reconquista (in English, "reconquest") was popularized by contemporary Mexican writers Carlos Fuentes and Elena Poniatowska to describe the increased demographic and cultural presence of Mexicans in the Southwestern United States. ==Historical usage== It was originally a jo...
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  5. Reconquista
    [disambiguation] Reconquista, the war to drive the Moors out of Spain and Portugal by the Christian rulers. Reconquista may also refer to: ==Places== ...
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  6. Reconquista
    The Reconquista (lang, lang, lang, Reconquesta rəkuŋˈkɛstə, "Reconquest"; الاسترداد trans. al-ʾIstirdād, æl ʔɪstɪrˈdæːd, "the Recapturing") was a period of almost 800 years (539 years in Portugal) in the Middle Ages during which several Christian kingdoms succeeded in retakin...
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