1491, When they reached France

This year the Arabs were defeated, 

                   [an event that many thought could not be done,
and the Treaty of Granada,
                                     [was signed on November 25, 1491.

The surrender of Granada, one could say,
                    [that was the beginning of the end of an Arab epic,
perhaps an epic like the Homeric epics of Iliad and Odyssey,
                                                             [relatively a recent epoch.

The Arab conquests began in the 7th century,
                                                              (620 anno Domini, approximately the year).

Starting from the Arabian peninsula, they conquered the then half known world,
         [and they only stopped due to difficulties when they reached France, oh dear.

The resulting empire included Central Asia, the Middle East,
             [North Africa, Sicily, and the Iberian Peninsula, to the Pyrenees footpaths,
while the European nations lived in a state of anxiety.
        [that the army of Arabs could at any time lie waste......these limits could pass.

The conquest of Europe was turned away
                                                  [by Charles Martel ruler of Francia in October 732,
and the withdrawal of occupiers succeeded Ferdinand and Isabella,
                             [with the so-called "reconquista wars", known to all, and to you.
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to be continued

* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS//
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* The Reconquista, Spanish and Portuguese for the "reconquest" is the period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the about 780 years between the Islamic conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the last Islamic state in Iberia at Granada to the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492. 

The Reconquista was completed just before the Spanish discovery of the Americas—the "New World"—which ushered in the era of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires. Since the mid-19th century, the idea of a 'reconquest' took hold in Spain associated with its rising nationalism and colonialism.
Western historians have marked the beginning of the Reconquista with the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722), one of the first victories by Christian military forces since the 711 Islamic conquest of Iberia by the Umayyad Caliphate. 

In that small battle, a group led by the nobleman Pelagius defeated a caliphate's army in the mountains of northern Iberia and established the independent Christian Kingdom of Asturias.

* Treaty of Granada (1491) The Treaty of Granada was signed and ratified on November 25, 1491 between Boabdil, the sultan of Granada, and Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Castile, León, Aragon and Sicily. It ended the Granada War which had started in 1482, culminating in the siege and battle of Granada beginning in spring 1491.
Also known as the Capitulation of Granada, the treaty provided a short truce, followed by the relinquishment in January 1492 of the sovereignty of the Moorish Emirate of Granada (founded five centuries earlier) to the Catholic monarchs of Spain. The treaty guaranteed a set of rights to the Moors, including religious tolerance and fair treatment in return for their surrender and capitulation.
The Catholics' subsequent policy inviting the Moors to either convert or be expelled triggered an uprising by the Moors in 1500, and the Catholic side used this uprising to argue that the Moors had violated the Treaty and justify revoking its provisions. See Morisco rebellions in Granada.

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