Reconquista

The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for 'reconquest') or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711. The Reconquista concluded in 1492 with the capture of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, thereby ending the presence of any Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. Quotes There was crying in Granada when the sun was going down,Some calling on the Trinity, some calling on Mahoun;Here pass'd away the Koran, there in the Cross was borne,And here was heard the Christian bell, and there the Moorish horn;Te Deum Laudamus was up the Alcala sung:Down from the Alhamra's minarets were all the crescents flung;The arms thereon of Arragon they with Castille's display;One king comes in in triumph, one weeping goes away. "The Flight from Granada", sts. 1 and 2. Translated by John Gibson Lockhart, Ancient Spanish Ballads (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1823), p. 110 External links Category:Wars and battles Category:History of Spain Category:History of Portugal