Look up: Reconquista

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, and Castile....
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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]
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3. Reconquista
   The `Reconquista` (, , , "Reconquest"; ; al-ʼIstirdād-->, "the Recapturing") was a period of almost 800 years (539 years in Portugal) in the Middle Ages during which several Christian kingdoms succeeded in retaking the Muslim-controlled areas of the Iberian Penin...
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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.<ref name=WashingtonPos...
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5. 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 ...
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