as internet meme by 21st-century online far-right groups which seek to convey Anti-Muslim sentiments. The theme has also been used as a major rallying point by identitarian groups in France and Italy. The annual commemoration of the surrender of Sultan Boabdil in Granada on 2 January acquired a markedly nationalistic undertone during the early years of the Francoist regime and, since the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, it has served as glue for extreme right groups by facilitating their open-air physical gatherings and providing them with an occasion which they can use to explicitly state their political demands. A Spanish Legion unit usually parades and sings El novio de la muerte ("Boyfriend of death"). The far right has also waged a culture war by claiming dates in the history of the Reconquista, such as the aforementioned 2 January or 2 February, regional festivities for the related autonomous communities (Andalusia and Murcia). See also Convivencia Notes References Bibliography Barton, Simn. Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711–1085) (2020) Bishko, Charles Julian, 1975. The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest, 1095–1492 in A History of the Crusades, vol. 3: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, edited by Harry W. Hazard, (University of Wisconsin Press) online edition Fletcher, R. A. "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050–1150", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 37, 1987. pp. García Fitz, Francisco, Guerra y relaciones políticas. Castilla-León y los musulmanes, ss. XI–XIII, Universidad de Sevilla, 2002. García Fitz, Francisco & Feliciano Novoa Portela Cruzados en la Reconquista, Madrid, 2014. García-Sanjuán, Alejandro. "Rejecting al-Andalus, exalting the Reconquista: historical memory in contemporary Spain." Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 10.1 (2018): 127–145. online Lomax, Derek William: The Reconquest of Spain. Longman, London 1978. Nicolle, David and Angus McBride. El Cid and the Reconquista 1050–1492 (Men-At-Arms, No 200) (1988), focus on soldiers O'Callaghan, Joseph F.: Reconquest and crusade in Medieval Spain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), Payne, Stanley, "The Emergence of Portugal", in A History of Spain and Portugal: Volume One. Queimada e Silva, Tiago . "The Reconquista revisited: mobilising medieval Iberian history in Spain, Portugal and beyond." in The Crusades in the Modern World (2019) pp: 57–74. Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Atlas of the Crusades. Facts on File, Oxford (1991) Villegas-Aristizábal, Lucas, 2013, "Revisiting the Anglo-Norman Crusaders' Failed Attempt to Conquer Lisbon c. 1142", Portuguese Studies 29:1, pp. 7–20. Villegas-Aristizábal, Lucas, 2009, "Anglo-Norman Involvement in