Nasrid Granada

El reino nazarí de Granada

c. 1238–1492. When Castile and Aragon swept through the south in the thirteenth century, one Muslim state survived: the kingdom of Granada, founded by Muhammad ibn Nasr…

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What happened

When Castile and Aragon swept through the south in the thirteenth century, one Muslim state survived: the kingdom of Granada, founded by Muhammad ibn Nasr (al-Ahmar), who moved his court to the hill of the Alhambra. Paying tribute to Castile and playing North African powers against it, the Nasrids held the mountains and coast from Almería to Gibraltar for two and a half centuries. Their palaces reached their full splendour under Yusuf I and Muhammad V in the fourteenth century. A ten-year war with Isabel and Fernando ended with the surrender of Granada on 2 January 1492, the close of Muslim political rule in the peninsula.

Its events

1. 1333–1391: The Nasrids build the Alhambra
2. 2 January 1492: The fall of Granada

Sources

1. History — Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife
2. Reconquista — World History Encyclopedia
3. Rolled privilege of the capitulations for the surrender of the city of Granada (1491) — History Lab (Universidad de Almería / Archivos Estatales)
4. Isabella I of Castile — World History Encyclopedia