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La resistencia morisca del Poqueira

Pampaneira, Alpujarra Granadina, Granada

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La resistencia morisca del Poqueira

Historical milestone · Pampaneira, Alpujarra Granadina, Granada

Image of Pampaneira, not of the place itself.

After the fall of the Kingdom of Granada, the moriscos held out for nearly eighty years in these valleys until they were subdued by Juan de Austria under Felipe II; the area was later resettled with Castilian colonists.

Photo: Hermann Luyken (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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