Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile)

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Kingdom of Granada
Reino de Granada
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Kingdom of Granada 1492-1833
Official language Castilian
Capital Granada
founding 1492
resolution 1833

The Kingdom of Granada ( Spanish : Reino de Granada ) was a rulership in what is now Spain, connected to the Kingdom of Castile-Léon .

The kingdom was founded in 1492 when the Catholic kings of Castile and Aragon took over Granada on January 2nd , thus smashing the last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula and ending the Christian-Spanish Reconquista . The former Muslim emirate of Granada was now connected as a Christian kingdom to the crown of Castile, with which it remained institutionally associated throughout its history. Its representatives were sent to the Cortes of Castile , for example . However, the kingdom received its own court of law and, with the Archdiocese of Granada, its own metropolitan seat within the church hierarchy.

Together with the kingdoms of Cordoba (1236), Jaén (1246) and Seville (1248), Granada formed one of the four kingdoms of Andalusia (cuatro reinos de Andalucía) of the Crown of Castile. In the course of the territorial reorganization of Spain carried out by the Minister Francisco Javier de Burgos in 1833, the kingdom was divided into the provinces of Granada , Almería and Málaga , which in turn formed the historical region of Andalusia with the provinces of Cádiz , Huelva , Jaén , Córdoba and Seville 1982 as one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain (Comunidad Autónoma) still exists today.

The coat of arms of Granada represents a pomegranate and is still part of the coat of arms of Spain .

See also

literature

  • Thomas Freller: Granada. Kingdom between Orient and Occident. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0825-4 .
  • Historia del Reino de Granada. 3 volumes.
    • Volume 2: Manuel Barrios Aguilera (ed.): La época morisca y la repoblación (1502-1630). Ed. Univ. de Granada, Granada 2000, ISBN 84-338-2675-1 .
    • Volume 3: Francisco Andújar Castillo (ed.): Del siglo de la Crisis al fin del Antiguo Régimen (1630–1633). Ed. Univ. de Granada, Granada 2000, ISBN 84-338-2676-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Faustino Menedes Pidal: El Escudo de España. Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-88833-02-4 , pp. 199-203.