Expulsion of the Moriscos
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title:
Expulsion of the Moriscos
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The Expulsion of the Moriscos was decreed by King Philip III of Spain on April 9, 1609. The Moriscos were descendants of Spain's Muslim population who had been forced to convert to Christianity. Since the Spanish were fighting wars in the Americas, feeling threatened by the Ottomans raiding along the Spanish coast and by two Morisco revolts in the century since Islam was outlawed in Spain, it seems that the expulsions were a reaction to an internal problem of the stretched Spanish Empire. Betwee
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17th century expulsion of Moriscos from Spain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos
date created:
2008-10-13T07:10:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T16:07:22Z
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