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The original 1492 Decree language was wrote was: Spanish, obviously! and signed by 'Yo, el Rey' and 'Yo, la Reina', and granted by Royal Secretary signature 'Joan de Coloma' suposed to have jews ancestors. Any other suposed translation to ancien sephardic language 'ladino' or arabic is a mixtification, a fake.
The Alhambra Decree was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year. The primary purpose was to eliminate the influence of practising Jews on Spain's large formerly-Jewish converso New Christian population, to ensure the ...
The golden age of Jewish culture in Spain coincided with the Middle Ages in Europe, during which Jewish religious, cultural, and economic life flourished. Major Jewish presence in Spain continued until they were forced to leave or to convert to Christianity in the Alhambra Decree of 1492.
As a result of the Alhambra Decree of 1492, the remaining practising Jews in Castile and Aragon were forced to convert to Catholicism (thus becoming 'New Christians' who faced discrimination under the limpieza de sangre system) whereas those who continued to practise Judaism (c. 100,000–200,000) were expelled, creating diaspora communities.
Tomás de Torquemada [a] OP (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office (otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition). The Spanish Inquisition was a group of ecclesiastical prelates that was created in 1478, and ...
Three months after the conquest of Granada, in 1492, the Alhambra Decree ordered all Jews in Spain to be expelled or converted; this marked the beginning of a set of new policies. In 1497, Spain's western neighbor Portugal expelled its Jewish and Muslim populations , as arranged by Spain's cardinal Cisneros in exchange for a royal marriage ...
The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Alhambra Decree of 1492 led to the mass conversion of Spain's Jews to Catholicism and the expulsion of those who refused to do so. However, the vast majority of conversos never made it to the New World and ...
