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Jan 17, 2024 · The expulsion led to mass migration of Jews from Spain to Italy, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin. As a result of the Alhambra Decree, over 200,000 Jews converted to Catholicism, and between 40,000 and 100,000 were expelled. The expulsion must have been a devastating experience for Jews across the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain ( Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and ...
The Alhambra Decree ordered the expulsion of Jews from Spain and it’s territories in 1492. Those who stayed and practiced Judaism in secret were sought out and tortured, in what became known as the Spanish Inquisition. Hundreds of Jews were burned at the stake. The 200,000 Jews who left, the Sephardim, scattered all over the world: to Europe ...
Mar 31, 2013 · 1492: The Spanish Monarchy Turns on the Jews. On this day in 1492, the Spanish monarchs gave the Jews four months to convert or leave. An image of the Alhambra decree. Credit: Wikipedia.
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Mar 29, 2013 · This Easter Sunday, March 31, marks the 521st anniversary of the issuance of the Alhambra Decree . To some, that name means nothing. Perhaps it is better known by its other name: The Edict of Expulsion. It was in the city of Granada, in the spring of 1492 that the Catholic Monarchs, Isabelle of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, decided to banish ...
The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء—Al-Ħamrā'; literally "the red") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada in southern Spain, occupying a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada. Mohammed I, the first king of the Nasriden—a Moorish dynasty in Granada—converted a ninth-century castle ...
