# @itsaihistory on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-09-12T15:12:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Parker Gordon (@itsaihistory) — https://gondola.cc/itsaihistory

## Caption

📜 1212 to 1492 | The Reconquista | Part III

What you’re seeing:
After Las Navas de Tolosa, the Almohad empire (a North African Muslim empire ruling much of Muslim Iberia) began to collapse. Castile took Córdoba in 1236, Aragon took Valencia in 1238, and Castile took Seville in 1248. Muslim refugees moved south to Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Iberia. Granada surrendered on 2 January 1492.

Why did Granada survive for so long?
Geography helped. Granada was a mountain kingdom between the Sierra Nevada and the sea. Its founder became a vassal of Castile, paid tribute, and even sent his horsemen to fight beside Castile at Seville. After that, Granada sometimes paid tribute, sometimes fought and sometimes made peace. For much of this period, the frontier barely moved.

Who built the Alhambra?
Granada was ruled by the Nasrids. Their founder, Muhammad ibn al-Ahmar, began the Alhambra on the red hill above the city, and his dynasty expanded its palaces.

Who was the last king of Granada?
Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil, surrendered Granada and handed its keys to Ferdinand. He later crossed to Fez in North Africa, where he died.

Why did Granada finally surrender?
Granada had survived for centuries through tribute, war and peace. But in 1481 its king seized the Castilian frontier town of Zahara. Ferdinand and Isabella’s armies then took the kingdom city by city while Granada’s royal family fought itself. By December 1491, famine had spread through Granada and the city asked for terms.

What happened later in 1492?
Ferdinand and Isabella ordered Jews who refused baptism to leave Spain. Christopher Columbus was also at Granada, where he had been seeking royal backing for a westward voyage. After the surrender, the monarchs signed an agreement with him at Santa Fe.

Sources: the chronicles of Pulgar and Bernáldez; James I, Llibre dels fets; al-Maqqari, trans. Gayangos; Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella; Lane-Poole, The Moors in Spain; Watts, The Christian Recovery of Spain.

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