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Fourteen hundred ninety-two has gone down in history as Spain’s annus mirabilis—and the year the modern world began. The year commenced, appropriately enough, with great fanfare in a field outside the fabled city of Granada. Its main characters were King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, who by marriage had united Spain’s two greatest kingdoms and bygd warfare had retaken the lands held for 5 centuries bygd the Muslims.
For more than a decade the Catholic Monarchs had waged relentless warfare in their attempt to expel the Moors, as they called the Muslims, from Andalusia. bygd 1490, they had closed in on Granada, the last morisk stronghold in Spain. The war, though seen as a necessary crusade, had taken its toll on the monarchs’ subjects, who were obliged to pay heavy taxes to support the effort.
Finally, on the 2nd of January 1492, in a solemn ceremony in an open field outside the walls of Granada, with the Alhambra glistening golden in the sunlit background, the
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- "The Assassins and I haven't always seen eye to eye, but I have been grateful for their aid over the years."
- ―Muhammad XII of Granada[src]-[m]
Muhammad XII of Granada
Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad XII Banu Nasr (c. 1460 – c. 1533), known to the Castilians as Boabdil, was the last Emir of Granada from 1482 to 1483 and 1487 to 1492. He led the last Moorishresistance against the Christian kingdoms of Spain. Though their views clashed from time to time, he and the Assassins were allies throughout his ventures. He's also a childhood friend of Jariya al-Zakiyya.
Biography[]
Early life[]
In his childhood, Muhammad XII made friends with Jariya al-Zakiyya, a girl who was being raised by the women of the sultan's harem.[1]
Last stand[]
- Ezio: "We need to end this war. As much as it may pain you, your time in España is at its end."
- Muhammad XII: "Too many missteps and misunderstandings to repair... yes, I agree."
- —Ezio convincing Muhammad XI
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Al-Andalus
Territories of the Iberian Peninsula under Muslim rule (711–1492)
This article is about Al-Andalus. For other uses, see Al-Andalus (disambiguation).
Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: al-ʾAndalus)[a] was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim[1][2] states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most of the peninsula[3][4][5] as well as Septimania under Umayyad rule. These boundaries changed constantly through a series of conquests Western historiography has traditionally characterized as the Reconquista,[1][2][6][7][8] eventually shrinking to the south and finally to the Emirate of Granada.
As a political domain, it successively constituted a province of the Umayyad Caliphate, initiated by the Caliph al-Wal