Example sentences for: reconquest

How can you use “reconquest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.

  • The Christians recaptured Faro in 1249, completing the Reconquest, and the city prospered, becoming the Episcopal see of the Bishop of the Algarve in 1577.

  • The Castelo dos Mouros (Moors’ Castle) took shape after the Reconquest, though it preserves distinctly Moorish lines.

  • Its cliff-top position and labyrinthine street plan provided an easily defensible spot for the Moors, and Albufeira proved one of the last towns to fall during the Reconquest.

  • 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.


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