Als das Umayyaden-Kalifat den größten Teil Iberiens eroberte, überlebten kleine christliche Überbleibsel in den nördlichen Bergen.
Im Laufe der nächsten zwei Jahrhunderte dehnten sich die Königreiche Leon, Kastilien, Navarra und Aragon allmählich nach Süden aus, eroberten Gebiete zurück und verdrängten die muslimische Herrschaft aus Europa.
Im Jahr 1212 zerschmetterte die Schlacht von Las Navas se Tolosa die letzte große muslimische Macht in Iberien und markierte einen entscheidenden Wendepunkt in der Reconquista.
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What follows is ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Fascinating how centuries of shifting borders and small mountain strongholds turned into a complete reshaping of the peninsula. Maps like this really show how long and complex the Reconquista actually was.
This is a fun series of maps, but I wish there were one from earlier; the Reconquista had already made quite a bit of progress by 910.
For example, here’s map of Iberia in 750: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#/media/File:Map_Iberian_Peninsula_750-en.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#/media/File:Map_Iberian_Peninsula_750-en.svg) .
this map gives me serious GOT vibes😂 I mean, c’mon! It’s like watching the Starks reclaiming the North all over again
They’re coming. I can sense it.
Kind of odd that Grenada managed to survive for nearly 3 centuries more…..
were there borders between the emirates?
Once day I want to make an inverse map where all the Christian states are one colour and all the Islamic polities marked out in different colours. The implicit bias of maps like this is that all the Islamic Iberian states were a homogenous mass.
Technically all the Christian Spanish states were all vassals of the Pope so it would not even be technically incorrect.
At least this map makes some effort to label the differences- I’ve seen ones which literally just label the whole southern region as ‚Moorish‘ throughout the entire epoch.
Kingdom of Aragon???
Sign me TF up!
Last map is wrong. Mallorca Valencia Murcia and the Guadalquivir were conquered in the 1230-40s
It’s the Moops!
Should have started from 750 to show how much they really achieved from being a small sliver of territory to taking over the entire Iberia Peninsula
Bad naming, Kingdoom of Aragon in this map was called Crown of Aragon, the Kingdoom of Aragon was only a part of it
I find it interesting that I never really hear the reconquista in the context of the crusades, because it’s basically the same thing.
Christian kingdoms around the 12th century looking to take back formerly christian lands that had been ruled by muslims for centuries at that point. Just that it was more successful long term than the holy land crusades.