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Example sentences for: reconquest

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The Reconquest of Silves, not achieved for another 50 years, was a grisly affair.
The dauntless Afonso Henriques conquered it for the Christians in 1147, a major victory in the reconquest of Portugal.
A port for Granada in Moorish times, Almuñécar continued to enjoy a certain prestige after the Reconquest when Juan de Herrera, the architect of El Escorial, Philip II’s grand monastery cum palace near Madrid, was commissioned to design the parish church.
Though a castle of sorts Silves has existed here since Phoenician times, the present Castelo dos Mouros, on the site of Roman or Visigothic foundations, took shape after the Reconquest, though it preserves distinctly Moorish lines.
The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.