Centuries ago, a Spain devastated by Islam and almost rendered extinct raised its morale and mounted the Reconquista—thanks, in large part, to the protection and the apparitions of St. James.

He was behind the final recapture - Reconquista - of Spain from the Moors in 1492 and Columbus's journeys to the Americas. The letters between Ferdinand and Gonzalo de Córdoba include ...

Spain remained under Roman control for nearly ... Over the centuries, the northern Christian kingdoms began the Reconquista, ...

The first so-called Golden Age of Spain for Jews — which had begun with the Moorish conquest and rule of Iberia in 711 — had ended. But the Christian Reconquista of Spain in the 12th and 13th ...

Researchers reconstructed the population history of Iberia (modern Spain, Portugal ... from Moorish-controlled regions after the medieval "Reconquista", when Christian armies seized back control ...

And devout Iberians, flush with the Reconquista of Spain from the last vestiges of Moorish dominance, sought to move the borders of Christendom to encompass the world. Among learned and detached ...

Today, Ceuta is a Spanish exclave, a piece of a country ... how the Portuguese conquered Ceuta in 1415 when the Christian ...

The Alhambra, sitting high above Granada in Andalucia, was the last remaining outpost of Muslim rule in Europe, finally ending with the Christian Reconquista of Spain in 1492. Now one of the most ...

The beautiful city of Altea, despite becoming incredibly popular in recent years and only being a few hours from Madrid, has ...

built in commemoration of the battle fought there in 718 AD that is viewed as the starting point of the centuries-long military Reconquista [reconquest] of Spain. Pre-stage, this scenario bears a ...

“Watching the River Flow 5783-84 (with Oud)” is a combination of Walt Whitman’s 19 th century “Song of Myself”, Yehuda HaLevi’s 12 th century poem “My heart is in the East, and I am in the far far ...

Spain remained under Roman control for nearly 600 years until ... Over the centuries, the northern Christian kingdoms began the Reconquista, a process of gradually reclaiming the territory. This ...