Islam at War: A History

THE MUSLIM CONQUEST AND LOSS OF SPAIN 89

1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa gives Christians control of cen-
tral Spain and marks the beginning of the end of Muslim rule
in Spain.

1235 Cordoba captured. Seville follows in 1248.

1340 At the Battle of Rio Salado, Alfonso XI routs a Marinid con-
tingent, the last wave of African tribes to move into Spain.

1492 Granada, the last Muslim bastion in Spain, falls.

NOTE

1.Reconquistais the Spanish term referring to the reconquest of Spain from the Moors.