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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 ...
The husband of Isabella, Ferdinand II of Aragon, began making preparations for Loja. He mustered an army of 4,000 cavalry and 12,000 infantry. The cities and forts showed delay when delivering men and supplies to Ferdinand. Some of Ferdinand's counselors advised against Loja, but Ferdinand was eager for a war.
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.
Historians variously mark the beginning of the early modern period with the invention of moveable type printing in the 1450s, the Fall of Constantinople and end of the Hundred Years' War in 1453, the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1485, the beginning of the High Renaissance in Italy in the 1490s, the end of the Reconquista and subsequent ...
The Portuguese Empire [a] was a colonial empire that existed between 1415 and 1999. In conjunction with the Spanish Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery.It achieved a global scale, controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa and various islands in Asia and Oceania.
Year Date Event 80 to 72 BC: The Sertorian War takes place, with Quintus Sertorius, a Roman general, rebelling against Rome with the support of the Lusitanians.: 27 BC: Augustus replaces the old Hispania Ulterior and Citerior division with a new one: Lusitania (Centre and South of modern Portugal and some territory of Modern Spain, namely the capital of Lusitania, Mérida), Baetica (only ...
Said scholars would obtain international recognition and start a period of revision on the Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition. [233] At the start of the 20th century Henry Charles Lea published the groundbreaking History of the Inquisition in Spain. This influential work describes the Spanish Inquisition as "an engine of immense power ...