Moriscos

Acomodada de cara al mar, se resguarda del interior con un laberinto de sierras: los montes que llevan su nombre y la Sierra de Mijas, muy habitada, con numerosos pueblos moriscos donde se alarga alegremente el verano, lejos del cemento vertical a ...

Hence they became Moriscos, or 'Little Moors'. In the course of the following twenty years, the same fate would be met by the Mudéjares, the Muslims who were living in Christian lands, mostly in Valencia and Aragón, and whose excellence in agriculture ...

Moriscos are Muslims who were forced to convert to Catholicism or be killed or expelled from Spain in the early 1500s. Three generations later, in 1609, they were expelled from Spain because, like Spain's Jews who were forced to convert, they remained ...

L'impossibilità di convertire i moriscos dopo una politica improntata da De Ribera al tentativo di uniformarli al profilo cattolico degli Spagnoli, sembra aver inciso sulla risolutezza che egli espresse nella propugnazione della cacciata dei moriscos ...