The Reconquista was a pivotal period in Spanish history, spanning nearly 800 years from the early 8th century to 1492. It marked the long and arduous struggle by Christian kingdoms to reclaim the ...

It’s an unfortunate reality for Spain and the Islamic World that the late dictator Francisco Franco’s adage that “the Arabs came, then they left” is taken as fact.. The statement serves as ...

The Reconquista and Al-Andalus. In an era of revisionist history, the Reconquista is certainly a cause célèbre.That centuries-long campaign to free the Iberian Peninsula from the control of the ...

With the end of the Reconquista in 1492, a Spanish national identity began to emerge. The newly reigning Catholic monarchs took violent measures to forge it. Those who were not Catholic would not be ...

At the foot of the shrine in Covadonga located in Asturias province Spain, more than 1,700 young Catholics from 28 countries ...

“If loving Spain is very facha, well, I am very facha,” reads the Twitter bio of one supporter of La Reconquista, using a Spanish term for fascism. “Reconquista style, but we won’t only ...

Arcos' main church – and the town's name (de la frontera means "on the frontier") – are reminders of the Reconquista, the centuries-long fight to take Spain back from the Muslim Moors.

That law had been in force during the early centuries of La Reconquista, too. But as a new Catholic Spain asserted itself, a creed of uniformity became the order of the day, the old diversity ...

On Aug. 6 in the year 953, 200 monks living at the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in Burgos, Spain, were put to death, martyred by Muslim troops.