Battle of Granada

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With the siege of Granada by the kings of Isabella I and Ferdinand II the rule of the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula was completed in 1492.

History

Through constant conflicts and disputes failed the Moors to defend their emirate on the Iberian Peninsula. In 1482 the first major city, Alhama fell, followed Málaga 1487, and on April 11, 1491 began the siege of the city of Granada, on the hills opposite the kings of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, the fortress built Santa Fe to derive from there on to conquer to.

The last Moorish Emir of Granada, Muhammad XII. (called " Boabdil " ), it soon became clear that he had to surrender when he and his people were to survive. So he signed his capitulation in November 1491. On January 2, 1492, the official handover to the winners later called the Catholic Monarchs took place that made the Arab crescent on the Alhambra, the palace of the Moorish rulers, replace it with the Christian cross during a ceremony. With the handover ended both the 250- year-long rule of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada as well as the nearly eight hundred years of history of the Moors in Al -Andalus.

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