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Oct 5, 2018 · The Reconquista (Reconquest) or Iberian Crusades were military campaigns largely conducted between the 11th and 13th century CE to liberate southern Portuguese and Spanish territories, then known as al-Andalus, from the Muslim Moors who had conquered and held them since the 8th century CE.
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Jul 7, 2006 · During the Chicano rights movement of the 1960s, Aztlan became a powerful rallying cry for militants who spoke of a reconquista, or reconquest, of the U.S. Southwest, turning it into an ...
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Definition The Reconquista (Reconquest) or Iberian Crusades were military campaigns largely conducted between the 11th and 13th century CE to liberate southern Portuguese and Spanish territories, then known as al-Andalus, from the Muslim Moors who had conquered and held them since the 8th century CE.
- Mark Cartwright
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Mar 8, 2024 · 1680. The Pueblo Revolt (1680) was an uprising by the Pueblo People against the Spanish in the Province of New Mexico. The Pueblos successfully drove the Spanish from the province and regained control of the territory. Detail from a mural depicting the Pueblo Revolt. The mural is at the U.S. Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Randal Rust
Jan 9, 2017 · On the 2 January Emir Mohamed XII of Granada, faced with overwhelming enemy strength, surrendered his kingdom and its beautiful Alhambra palace to the Christians after a ten-year war. The Reconquista was complete. 1492 is a year that rings throughout history. Across the world, people remember Columbus, his reaching of the Americas and the dawn ...
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Reconcentration policy. The Spanish Reconcentration policy was a plan implemented by general Valeriano Weyler to relocate Cuba's rural population into concentration camps. The policy was originally developed by the Captaincy General of Cuba Arsenio Martínez Campos as a way to separate rebels from the rural populace who occasionally fed and ...
The Reconquista (“reconquest”) is a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, spanning approximately 770 years, between the initial Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 710s and the fall of the Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic state on the peninsula, to expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492.
