The Reconquista was the centuries-long process by which Christian kingdoms in the north of the Iberian Peninsula gradually took over the lands of Al-Andalus. Tradition places its start at the battle of Covadonga in Asturias, where Pelagius defeated a Muslim force, but historians stress that the term was applied later and that the process was not a single continuous campaign, since the kingdoms of Asturias, Leon, Castile, Aragon, Navarre and Portugal sometimes fought one another or allied with Muslim rulers. Toledo fell in 1085, Cordoba in 1236 and Seville in 1248, and the last Muslim state, the emirate of Granada, surrendered in 1492. Muslims and Jews were later forced to convert or leave.
Before and after
- from 15 July 717 CE to 15 August 718 CESiege of Constantinople
- from 718 CE to 910 CEKingdom of Asturias
- from 719 CE to 1798Construction of Abbey of Saint Gall
- 721 CEBirth of Jabir ibn Hayyan
- from 722 CE to 1492Reconquista
- c. 723 CEOrigins of Kathmandu
- c. 742 CEBirth of Charlemagne
- from 744 CE to 747 CEThird Fitna
- from 744 CE to 840 CEUyghur Khaganate
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- 2 January 1492The fall of Granada ends Muslim rule in Spain
The era
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