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The number of Moriscos in Spain at the time of expulsion is unknown and most estimates are based on the numbers of Moriscos who were expelled. Figures of between 300,000 and 400,000 are often cited. However, modern studies estimate between 500,000 and one million Moriscos present in Spain at the beginning of the 17th century out of a total population of 8.5 million.
While the Moors chose to leave Spain and emigrate to North Africa, the Moriscos accepted Christianity and gained certain cultural and legal privileges for doing so. [ 42 ] Many Moriscos became devout in their new Christian faith, [ 43 ] and in Granada, some Moriscos were killed by Muslims for refusing to renounce Christianity. [ 44 ]
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Morisco, (Spanish: “Little Moor”), one of the Spanish Muslims (or their descendants) who became baptized Christians. During the Christian reconquest of Muslim Spain, surrendering Muslim (Mudejar) communities in Aragon (1118), Valencia (1238), and Granada (1492) were usually guaranteed freedom of.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 1, 2007 · The Moriscos were nominally Christian after enforced conversions at the beginning of the sixteenth century, but they mainly clung to their Islamic ancestral faith, and they were expelled from Spain in 1609–14. This was a huge operation, as 300,000 Moriscos were expelled, most of them in the space of a few months.
- Már Jónsson
- 2007
Feb 2, 2009 · Spain’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Muslim Moriscos. The expulsion in 1609 of more than 300,000 Spanish Moriscos – Muslim converts to Christianity – was a brutal attempt to create a homogenous state. I n April 1609 one of the darkest chapters in Spanish history unfolded when the Habsburg king Philip III secretly authorized the expulsion of ...
Jun 9, 2023 · The discrimination did not stop there - and nor did their legacy The last Muslim king in Spain, Muhammad XII, depicted by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz in 'The Surrender of Granada in 1492' (Public ...
Between 1609 and 1614, approximately 300,000 Moriscos — new Christians converted from Islam — were expelled from Spain. This mass relocation of people was the end result of a drastic decision that was many years in the making. First discussed in government circles in 1582, the possibility of expulsion slowly gained credence as desirable ...
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