Pelayo and the Battle of Covadonga, the earliest Asturian victory in the aftermath of the Umayyad conquest of Spain.

The invasion served as proof of concept that Reagan was a tough anti-Communist with the foreign policy chops to guide the US ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

score. The category for Final Jeopardy was “Historic Names.” The clue was, “He was riding back from the conquest of Granada when he was summoned to a royal meeting that would change history.” ...

Ibn Naghrillah, too, was forced to emigrate like his fellow Jews upon the Berber conquest of Cordoba ... and died one year before the sacking of Granada. Their lives remind us that even when ...

Dogs wag their tails to the rhythm of modern hippies and street musicians. Granada’s dominant attraction, the Alhambra, captures the region’s history of conquest and reconquest: its brute Alcazaba ...

This was done not through proselytizing but rather through conquest. Instead of Western ... of the New World had flowed to the Emirate of Granada instead of the European empires.

If I had one “aha” moment in studying truces, it was reading about the series of truces in the lead-up to the conquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs [Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of ...

The swift conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate ... enslavement of women and children); others, like Málaga, Granada, or Toledo, offered little resistance; the majority, however, ...

Granada was one of the most prized treasures of Al-Andalus, the Muslim kingdom established by the Umayyad conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the early 700s AD. This heritage lives on in the Granada ...

Listen here! 143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of Granada, and Columbus For centuries Spain had been an outlier in Europe due to its religious diversity; Christians, Jews ...