The End of the Reconquista

[Pacific Highlander]

On January 2nd, 1492, Sultan Muhammad XII of the Nasrid Dynasty surrendered Granada to the Catholic Monarchs (los Reyes Católicos), King Ferdinand II of Aragón and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ending Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula.

[Cristiano viejo]

Good times that we must "repeat" expelling the Muslims that parasite Spain currently.

[Incal]

One of the most important events in the history of mankind.

[Crn Volk]

Good times that we must "repeat" expelling the Muslims that parasite Spain currently.

It's sad the efforts of those great men are being undone throughout Europe today.

[Teutone]

What honorful men they were, imagine seeing them today getting called cucks by pagan larpers.

[Teutone]

[Thorns]

^Hah! The (medieval) strength and casualty estimates are quite funny. However, the modern estimates are quite impressive, most of the Umayyads present were probably killed in the ambush, I reckon.

[Cristiano viejo]

[Ice]

In July 1492, the new state of Spain expelled its Jewish and Muslim populations as part of the Spanish Inquisition. Bayezid II sent out the Ottoman Navy under the command of admiral Kemal Reis to Spain in 1492 in order to evacuate them safely to Ottoman lands. He sent out proclamations throughout the empire that the refugees were to be welcomed.[17] He granted the refugees the permission to settle in the Ottoman Empire and become Ottoman citizens. He ridiculed the conduct of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in expelling a class of people so useful to their subjects. "You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler," he said to his courtiers, "he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!"[18] Bayezid addressed a firman to all the governors of his European provinces, ordering them not only to refrain from repelling the Spanish refugees, but to give them a friendly and welcome reception.[18] He threatened with death all those who treated the Jews harshly or refused them admission into the empire. Moses Capsali, who probably helped to arouse the sultan's friendship for the Jews, was most energetic in his assistance to the exiles. He made a tour of the communities and was instrumental in imposing a tax upon the rich, to ransom the Jewish victims of the persecution.

The Muslims and Jews of al-Andalus (Iberia) contributed much to the rising power of the Ottoman Empire by introducing new ideas, methods and craftsmanship. The first printing press in Constantinople was established by the Sephardic Jews in 1493. It is reported that under Bayezid's reign, Jews enjoyed a period of cultural flourishing, with the presence of such scholars as the Talmudist and scientist Mordecai Comtino; astronomer and poet Solomon ben Elijah Sharbiṭ ha-Zahab; Shabbethai ben Malkiel Cohen, and the liturgical poet Menahem Tamar.

[Rocinante]

The beginning of the Reconquista was the beginning of Spain and Portugal.