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(Date unknown). Córdoba is established as the capital of al-Andalus. [27] 718. Summer (year in question [bb]). Pelagius of Asturias defeats the Moors at the Battle of Covadonga, beginning the Reconquista. [28] (Date unknown). Pelagius founds the Kingdom of Asturias. [29] (Date unknown). The Moors conquer Barcelona. [30] Al-Andalus at its ...
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
A request that this article title be changed to Almohad period in the Reconquista is under discussion. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed. The Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1172–1212 refers to the conflicts that the Almohads had with the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula .
Portuguese participation in the Reconquista occurred from when the County of Portugal was founded in 868 and continued for 381 years until the last cities still in Muslim control in the Algarve were captured in 1249. Portugal was created during this prolonged process and largely owes its geographic form to it.
On the night of 14 March, King Afonso and his army arrived at Santarém [2] and hid ladders in the fields. [1] Before dawn the next morning, 25 knights scaled the walls, killed the Moorish sentries and forced their way to the gate, allowing the main Portuguese army to enter the city. [2]
The Spanish Reconquista began later in the eighth century. The campaign eventually took 800 years to force the Moors back across the Strait, and did not reach the Bay of Gibraltar until the fourteenth century. [6] It was not until 1309, nearly 600 years after Gibraltar was first settled, that the first siege of Gibraltar was recorded.
Astronomical fall starts on the autumnal equinox, between Sept. 21 and Sept. 23, and ends on the winter solstice, between Dec. 20 and Dec. 22.
A map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 highlighting the Crown of Castile.. Events of the year 1492 in Spain included the end of the Reconquista with the fall of Granada, the Jewish Diaspora of Spain due to the Alhambra Decree, and the start of Columbus' first voyage.