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Facts

Also Known As Reconquest
Date c. 801 - c. 1492
Location Iberian Peninsula
Participants Moor • Portugal • Spain

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The Alhambra, a palace and fortress in Granada built between 1238 and 1358 at the end of Muslim rule in Spain.
Carolingian empire
Alfonso I
Alfonso VIII
Ferdinand III
Spanish Inquisition
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Timeline

Alfonso VI, King of Castile, and His Daughter Urraca
Siege of Toledo
1085
Battle of Alarcos
July 18, 1195
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
July 16, 1212
Battle of Río Salado
October 30, 1340

Key People

Afonso III
Afonso III
king of Portugal
Christopher Columbus
Isabella I
queen of Spain
Cid, the
El Cid
Castilian military leader
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand II
king of Spain
Alfonso VI
Alfonso VI
king of Leon and Castile
James I, detail of an illumination from the Crónica de Jaime I; in the University of Barcelona
James I
king of Aragon
Alfonso VII
Alfonso VII
king of Leon and Castile
Ramon Berenguer IV
prince of Aragon
Alfonso I
Alfonso I
king of Aragon and Navarre
Ramon Berenguer III
Ramon Berenguer III
count of Barcelona
Ferdinand III
Ferdinand III
king of Castile and Leon
Afonso I
Afonso I
king of Portugal
Alfonso III
Alfonso III
king of Asturias
Alfonso XI
Alfonso XI
king of Castile and Leon
Alfonso VIII
Alfonso VIII
king of Castile
Afonso II
king of Portugal
Sancho Ramírez
king of Aragon and Pamplona [Navarre]
Ferdinand II
king of Leon
Ramiro II
Ramiro II
king of Leon and Asturias
Alfonso I
Alfonso I
king of Asturias