Reconquista

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The process by which the Christian countries of Spain and Portugal were reconquered and regained from the Moors.

Word forms

Reconquista the Reconquista

Etymology

From Spanish reconquista (“a reconquest”).

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