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This was a major Christian victory, as Alhama was located in the heart of the emirate, on the road between Granada and the emirate's second city, Malaga. [100] This marked the beginning of a grinding 10-year war. The Christian force was made up of troops provided by Castilian nobles, towns, and the Santa Hermandad, as well as Swiss mercenaries ...
The Nasrid dynasty (Arabic: بنو نصر banū Naṣr or بنو الأحمر banū al-Aḥmar; Spanish: Nazarí) was an Arab dynasty that ruled the Emirate of Granada from 1232 to 1492. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the last Muslim dynasty in the Iberian Peninsula .
The Granada War was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, against the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile, ending the last remnant of Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula.
He is succeeded by his son Muhammad II, who becomes ruler of the Emirate of Granada. Muhammad enters negotiations with King Alfonso X ("the Wise") to make peace with Castile , but he refuses to grant a truce to the Banu governors ( arraeces ) of Málaga and Guadix in Andalusia .
A map of the Emirate of Granada, depicting its larger towns and cities. The Emirate of Granada was the last Muslim state on the Iberian Peninsula, founded by Fatima's grandfather, Muhammad I, in the 1230s. Throughout its existence, it was ruled by the Nasrid dynasty (banū Naṣr or banū al-Aḥmar). [1]
A map of Southern Spain around Muhammad's time, including the Emirate of Granada which he was to found. Green/pale yellow: Granada. Muhammad ibn Yusuf was born in 1195 [4] in the town of Arjona, then a small frontier Muslim town south of the Guadalquivir, [5] now in Spain's province of Jaén.
Granada thereafter became a tributary state to the Kingdom of Castile, although this was often interrupted by wars between the two states. [38] [4] The political history of the emirate was turbulent and intertwined with that of its neighbours. The Nasrids sometimes provided refuge or military aid to Castilian kings and noblemen, even against ...
Emirate of Granada was an Islamic realm in southern Iberia during the Late Middle Ages Kingdom of Granada may also refer to: in Europe. Taifa of Granada, earlier state ruled by the Zirids from 1013 to 1090; Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile), a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile from 1492 until 1833; in America