http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10654650
Contrary to the above answers Spain was the last muslim country to fall under the Spanish Inquisition.
See link below.
Of course not;; Spain emerged during the 1400 s from all of the warfare and the "reconquesta (The retaking of the holy lands taken by the muslims500 years earlier.)
After Queen Isabella and Ferdinand maried, they united Spain and Aragon
The three major lands which were christian was Portugal, the castile, and Aragon with their marriage they united their forces to defeat the muslims in the iberian Penisula.
The Granada remained in the hands of the Black Spanish called the moors. Queen isabella and King ferdinand defeated the muslims in the late 1460 s and they were forced to return The area of Granada to the Christians. The muslims and the Moors were heartbroken of their lost.
Queen Isabella and her army marched boldly into Granada and admired the architecture, the painting and the building of the defeated last muslim stronghold- THE GRANADA.
Queen isabella dn king Ferdinand promised the blacks moors or the muslim could stay in Granada as long as they obeyed the laws and convert to Christianity.
Then they turned their rage toward the people who practiced withcraft, the jews, and the Protestants. They want all of Spain to be total Christian. but the jews who converted as well as the moors who converted were called Marronos or conversos. but many of them practice their jewish religion in secret as well as the Muslim moors who practiced in secret and when they were found out they were executed.
In the Southern part of Spain and the iberian penisula, the Black moors were there first since the 7th century and then they intergrated into society of total Spain as well as they controlled 1/3 of the shipping and the commerce.
Christopher Columbus was there to witness the surrender of the Granada to Queen Isabella because if the queen was still fighting the war with the muslims she would have not had the chance to finance the Columbus expedition to the new World and Columbus would have went to France or English to find financuials.-or the medici bank in Florence.
there is a lot of mixed blood I would say - but that was 600 or so years ago. Our own Queen is said to carry Moorish blood from a Portuguese princess who married into the English royal family.
Some of them ,yes. certainly not all but there is a huge Moorish influence in Spain from architecture to the food they grow and much more.
No, they did not.
"Moorish revival' in southern Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10654650
