Granada War

Battle context

The Granada War, fought between 1482 and 1492, was the concluding military campaign of the Reconquista, the centuries-long effort by Christian kingdoms to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic rule. Conducted under the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon against the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada, it ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile. The campaign recorded 100,000 casualties on the Granadan side. The outcome extinguished the last remaining Muslim polity on the Iberian Peninsula, bringing to a close a conflict that had its origins in 733. The annexation of Granada consolidated Castilian and Aragonese territorial control over the peninsula and marked the end of the Nasrid dynasty, which had governed Granada as the final successor to earlier Andalusian Islamic states. The fall of Granada in 1492 thus represented the terminal point of the Reconquista as a political and military project, completing the transformation of Iberia into an exclusively Christian-ruled territory after nearly eight centuries of coexistence and conflict between Christian kingdoms and Islamic polities.