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 ...

“If loving Spain is very facha, well, I am very facha,” reads the Twitter bio of one supporter of La Reconquista, using a Spanish term for fascism. “Reconquista style, but we won’t only ...

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 ...

That law had been in force during the early centuries of La Reconquista, too. But as a new Catholic Spain asserted itself, a creed of uniformity became the order of the day, the old diversity ...

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.