<P> Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista with a war against the Emirate of Granada that started in 1482 and ended with Granada 's surrender on January 2 , 1492 . The Moors in Castile previously numbered `` half a million within the realm . '' By 1492 some 100,000 had died or been enslaved , 200,000 had emigrated , and 200,000 remained in Castile . Many of the Muslim elite , including Granada 's former Emir Muhammad XII , who had been given the area of the Alpujarras mountains as a principality , found life under Christian rule intolerable and emigrated to Tlemcen in North Africa . </P>
<P> Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista with a war against the Emirate of Granada that started in 1482 and ended with Granada 's surrender on January 2 , 1492 . The Moors in Castile previously numbered `` half a million within the realm . '' By 1492 some 100,000 had died or been enslaved , 200,000 had emigrated , and 200,000 remained in Castile . Many of the Muslim elite , including Granada 's former Emir Muhammad XII , who had been given the area of the Alpujarras mountains as a principality , found life under Christian rule intolerable and emigrated to Tlemcen in North Africa . </P>
the ' reconquista ' was the reconquest of spain from the
the ' reconquista ' was the reconquest of spain from the
Moors
Moors