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After the Conquest of Granada, Spanish rulers made the Alhambra more their own – transforming interiors, replacing the on-site mosque with a church and adding other Renaissance-style structures ...
The Catholic monarchs closed the Moorish baths when they took control of the city during the conquest of Granada in 1492. Five centuries later, visitors can return to those ancient times at Hammam ...
Ibn Naghrillah, too, was forced to emigrate like his fellow Jews upon the Berber conquest of Cordoba ... and died one year before the sacking of Granada. Their lives remind us that even when ...
score. The category for Final Jeopardy was “Historic Names.” The clue was, “He was riding back from the conquest of Granada when he was summoned to a royal meeting that would change history.” ...
The site has played a leading role in the history of medieval and modern Spain, being linked to the Crown of Castile from the reign of Alfonso XI and the other Peninsular kingdoms – particularly after ...
Four times over a thousand years did Christian fighters defeat and repel massive Muslim forces bent on conquest — at Tours (732), Granada (1492), Lepanto (1571), and Vienna (1683). Eventually ...
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His Highness further explained that the Portuguese presence was largely driven by the Ottoman Empire’s conquest of Constantinople ... and his story in the Spanish city of Granada when it was besieged ...
Ashour’s novel takes us into the heart of this history through her story of a Muslim family in Moorish Andalusia enduring their agonizing, incremental deracination, beginning with the Catholic ...