A 700-year struggle ended in 1492 when the last Moorish kingdom in Spain fell
After seven centuries of Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula, the surrender of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 fundamentally reshaped the borders and religious identity of modern Europe.
The surrender of the Emirate of Granada on January 2, 1492, marked the end of the Reconquista, a nearly 800-year religious and territorial struggle. Muhammad XII, the last Moorish sultan, handed the keys to the Alhambra palace to the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella.
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