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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 ...
Roderic becomes Visigothic king in Christian Hispania. [14] 711. 27–28 April. Tariq ibn Ziyad lands an invasion force of Arabs and Berbers at Gibraltar. [15] This began the Muslim conquest of Spain. [16] 19 July. The Visigoths are defeated at the Battle of Guadalete. [17] Shortly thereafter. Roderic, the last Visigoth king, drowns while ...
Reconquista of the main towns (per year) (in Spanish). Extent of the Teutonic Order in 1410. A military order ( Latin : militaris ordo ) is a Christian religious society of knights .
The Christian kingdoms progressively expanded south taking over Muslim territory in what is historiographically known as the Reconquista, effectively confining al-Andalus to the southern Emirate of Granada, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty from 1231 to 1492.
[4] [5] [1] Fought near Covadonga, in the Picos de Europa, it resulted in a victory for the Christian forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally regarded as the foundational event of the Kingdom of Asturias and thus the initial point of the Christian Reconquista ("reconquest") of Spain after the Umayyad conquest of 711. [6]
Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo; [1] c. 685 – 737) was a Hispano-Visigoth nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. [2] Pelagius is credited with initiating the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, and establishing the Asturian monarchy, making him the forefather of all the future Iberian monarchies, including the Kings of Castile, the Kings of ...
The most prominent Christian scholar in the Kingdom of Asturias of this period was Beatus of Liébana, whose works left an indelible mark on the Christian culture of the Reconquista. Beatus map . Beatus was directly involved in the debate surrounding adoptionism, which argued that Jesus was born a man, and was adopted by God and acquired a ...
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.