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 ...

The closing stages of the Reconquista, or the Christian reconquest of Islamic Spain, coincided with the Inquisition, an institution within the Roman Catholic Church that was sanctioned by the ...

Spain remained under Roman control for nearly ... Over the centuries, the northern Christian kingdoms began the Reconquista, ...

One was on the Rock of Gibraltar, a pocket of British territory next to mainland Spain, and the other was ... Ceuta in 1415 when the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula swept across ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Cathedral of Córdoba has become a battleground in the campaign to reduce the influence of the Church in Spain and beyond ... history, the Reconquista is certainly a cause ...

1992 was a landmark year for Spain: it marked the fifth centenary of the so-called “Discovery” of America, the end of the Reconquista, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims by the Catholic Kings.

Elda, Spain – Wearing a fake plastic ... these fiestas began when people looked to the past. They looked at the Reconquista but the fiesta has little to do with what actually happened during ...