The Reconquista was a pivotal period in Spanish history, spanning nearly 800 years from the early 8th century to 1492. It marked the long and arduous struggle by Christian kingdoms to reclaim the ...

Supporters of La Reconquista often display Spanish flags in their profiles and some openly praise Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator whose rule ended more than 40 years ago. They often refer ...

The closing stages of the Reconquista, or the Christian reconquest of Islamic Spain, coincided with the Inquisition, an institution within the Roman Catholic Church that was sanctioned by the ...

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS after the fall of Granada, the last emirate of Al-Andalus, a mosque had risen in the city in 2003 — the first to be constructed in Spain since La Reconquista of 1492.

When the Reconquista is spoken about in New Mexico history, it likely refers to that period in the 1690s when Diego de Vargas reconquered and recolonized New Mexico for Spain. But in the broader ...

The festival is not without controversy as the word moro is seen by some of Spain’s sizeable Muslim population as an insult [Juan Garcia Garcia/Al Jazeera] The Reconquista – or reconquest ...