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The Spanish Reconquista: Expelling Islamic Invaders from the Iberian Peninsula
TLDR The Spanish Reconquista was a nearly 800-year-long military campaign to remove Islamic invaders from the Iberian Peninsula. It involved various battles and changes in power, with significant successes including the capture of Toledo and the fall of the Emirate of Granada.
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The Spanish Reconquista was one of the longest military campaigns in history, lasting almost 800 years, as Europeans sought to expel the Islamic invaders from the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Spanish Reconquista began in 718 at the Battle of Covedonga in northern Spain and was a lengthy process that took centuries to expel the Islamic invaders from the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Reconquista was a lengthy process that took centuries, beginning with the Battle of Covedonga and involving various battles and changes in power over the Iberian Peninsula.
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In the 10th and 11th centuries, the idea of the Reconquista began to emerge, and King Alfonso VI's capture of Toledo in 1085 marked a significant success in reclaiming Spanish territory from the Moors.
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El Cid, a knight known for liberating the city of Valencia, achieved fame and was immortalized in a poem after his death, while the Christian kings in Spain began to make progress in permanently reclaiming land from the Caliphate in the 13th century.
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The Emirate of Granada, known for its iconic Alhambra palace, began to decline after the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella and the subsequent civil war, ultimately leading to its fall in 1492.
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The Spanish siege of Granada in 1491 marked the end of Islamic control over the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquista, which lasted for 781 years, left a lasting impact on Spain's architecture and culture.
