Reconquista

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The process by which the Christian countries of Spain and Portugal were reconquered and regained from the Moors. Iberian

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"The Christian Reconquista forced Sephardim out of Spain."

Etymology

From Spanish reconquista (“a reconquest”).

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