Fall of Granada
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Spanish/Portuguese History
- Geographical Location: Spain
- Date: 1492
Article abstract: The fall of Granada marks the military conquest of Muslim Spain by the Christian forces of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Summary of Event
Ever since the eighth century, the Christians of northern Spain had attempted to repel the Moorish invaders from Iberian soil. By the early thirteenth century, their military efforts had been crowned with general success, but one area of Andalusia, Granada, held out. For more than two centuries, the fertile and fair kingdom of Granada, some two hundred miles long and seventy miles wide, remained a bastion...
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