Emirate of Granada
The Emirate of Granada was an Islamic kingdom established in 1238. As the Reconquista was very successful after the conquest of Cordoba in 1236, the emirate officially became a tributary state in 1238 and was called the Kingdom of Granada. The Nasrid emirs and kings were responsible for building most of the palaces in the Alhambra. The taifa became a vassal state of the Christian kingdom of Castile for the next 250 years. The Nasrid sultans and kings paid tribute to the Christian kings and cooperated with them in the battle against rebellious Muslim kings under Castilian rule.
Emirate of Granada إمارة غرﻧﺎﻃﺔ Imarat Gharnāṭah | |||||||||
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| 1230–1492 | |||||||||
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 Territory of the Nasrid Kingdom | |||||||||
| Status | Tributary state of the Crown of Castile | ||||||||
| Capital | Granada | ||||||||
| Common languages | Official language: Classical Arabic Other languages: Andalusi Arabic, Mozarabic, Berber, Ladino | ||||||||
| Religion | Majority religion: Islam Minority religions: Christianity (Roman Catholicism), Judaism | ||||||||
| Government | Hereditary monarchy | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1238–1273 | Mohammed I ibn Nasr | ||||||||
• 1487–1492 | Muhammad XII | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Middle Ages | ||||||||
• | 1230 | ||||||||
• | 1492 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Spain
 Morocco | ||||||||
On January 2, 1492, the last Muslim leader, Muhammad XII, surrendered complete control of Granada, to Ferdinand and Isabella, after the city was besieged in the Battle of Granada.
Emirate Of Granada Media
Granada and its surrounding states in 1360
The Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo in Granada, a palace dated to the time of Muhammad II[3]
A bronze lamp from the main mosque of Alhambra, dated to 1305 during the reign of Muhammad III[4]
The Comares Palace, seen here inside the Alhambra, was originally constructed by Isma'il I[5]
The Court of the Lions, built by Muhammad V after 1362[7]
A jineta-type Nasrid sword from the 15th century[8]
Alcazaba y Castillo de Gibralfaro, Málaga, España.
The Surrender of Granada, a 19th-century depiction by Spanish painter Francisco Pradilla Ortiz
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Other websites
- Emirate of Granada on screen
- (in Spanish) Al-Ándalus III: el Sultanato De Granada (1232-1492) y Una Breve Reseña Sobre la Alhambra Archived 2009-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spanish) R.H. Shamsuddín Elía, Historia de Al-Andalus, Boletín N° 53 -08/2006 Al-Ándalus III: El Sultanato De Granada (1232-1492) Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spanish) Nicolás Homar Vives, Genealogy of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada
- (in French) Genealogy of the Muslim dynasties in Spain Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Irwin 2004, p. 25.
- ↑ Cabanelas Rodríguez 1992, p. 129.
- ↑ Arnold 2017, pp. 242–244.
- ↑ Dodds 1992, p. 276.
- ↑ Arnold 2017, pp. 236-238, 261.
- ↑ Bloom 2020, pp. 152–155.
- ↑ Dickie 1992, p. 142.
- ↑ Dodds 1992, p. 285.