The Iberian Peninsula was known as Hispania a name given by the Romans however after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
The territory was lost to the tribe of the Visigoths which ended up ruling the whole Peninsula
But this was temporary their new home will be conquered in the next period by a new force emerging far away
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Starting as a religious movement in the hot desert of Arabia Islam spread rapidly
Mainly due to the early military successes against Eastern Roman and Persians Arab dynasties expanded more and more
Reaching the shores of the Atlantic Ocean at the end of the 7th century
Hidden these empires the religion was embraced by more and more people and became dominant in the caliphates
It is believed that Hispania was one of the former Roman provinces where the Latin language and culture grew deep roots
And on April 30th the 7-eleven Muslim general Tariq even-odd landed in Gibraltar
by the end of his campaign
Most of the peninsula was brought under Islamic rule is LOM has been present in Hispania since the Umayyad
Conquest in the 8th century as in other places of the caliphate many others embraced Islam
It is not known for sure the exact number of people who were Muslims but my 1,100 the Muslim population in the Iberian, Peninsula
Was estimated to 5.5 million they were a rabs
Berbers or local people who accepted the religion even if the Umayyad dynasty
Collapsed parts of the peninsula were held by muslim dynasties in the next centuries and the Muslim majority
Existed more in the Spanish part than in the Portuguese part of land in the next few centuries Christians pushed from the north and started
Reconquista due to this process the Muslim population
Started to decline at the end of the 15th century the Reconquista culminated in the fall of Granada with the Muslim population of Spain
estimated to be around
500,000 approximately half of the Muslims lived in the former emirate of Granada the last independent Muslim state in Spain
Which had been annexed by the crown of Castile?
Muslims living under Christian rule were known as mu de Harz the conquest was accompanied by the Treaty of Granada
signed by Amir Muhammad the 12th of Granada
Allowing the Spanish crowns new Muslim subjects a large measure of religious toleration
The subjects were allowed the continuing use of their own language religion schools and laws
However in 1492 started the monarchies reversal of freedoms
It started with the Alhambra decree
ordering the expulsion of practicing Jews from the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and its
Territories this continued when the archbishop Talavera was replaced by the Cardinal Cisneros
He immediately organized a drive for mass forced conversions to Christianity
Also thousands of Arabic books were burned at the end of the 15th century in
1499 the mudras rebelled the first rebellion of the alfajores was
unsuccessful and only have the effect of giving King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella a
pretext to revolt
the promise of toleration
that same year the Muslim leaders of Granada were ordered to hand over almost all of the remaining books in Arabic most of which were
Burned sparing only the medical manuscripts beginning in the city of Valencia in 1502
Muslims were offered the choice of baptism or exile many of them chose the first option because exile was difficult
Thus the majority are forced to accept conversion
They became the new Christians also called moriscos many of them continued to practice their old beliefs in private in
1567 king philip ii made the use of the array back language illegal and forbade the Islamic religion
Dress and customs a step which led to the second rebellion of the alfajores acts of brutality
Existed afterwards edicts of expulsion for the expulsion of the Moriscos
Were finally issued by Philip the 3rd in against the remaining Muslims in Spain other explosions were also made the last mass
prosecution against Moriscos for practicing Islam without being seen occurred in Granada in
1727 by this period the indigenous Islam is considered to have been effectively extinguished in Spain
The Reconquista was a process not only of war and conquest but also of repopulation
Christian Kings moved their own people to locations abandoned by Muslims in order to have a population
Capable of defending the borders by doing so the Muslim population became less and less
many were exiled others persecuted and others converted a
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