He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

But between 1609 and 1614 King Felipe III expelled thousands of Moriscos who had remained in Valencia after the Reconquista, due to their cooperation with Barbary pirates who continually attacked coastal cities and caused much harm to trade.

* 1249: King Afonso III of Portugal takes Faro ( in the Algarve ), ending the Portuguese part of the Reconquista in 1250.

* 1249 — End of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors, when King Afonso III of Portugal reconquers the Algarve.

* 1263 – King James I of Aragon conquers Crevillente, Spain from the Moors during the Reconquista.

* 1265 – King Alfonso X of Castile captures the city of Alicante, Spain from the Moors during the Reconquista.

* King Afonso III of Portugal recaptures Faro and Silves in the Algarve from the Moors, thus ending the Portuguese Reconquista.

* King James I of Aragon conquers Crevillente, Spain from the Moors during the Reconquista.

* Reconquista: King Alfonso X of Castile captures the city of Alicante, Spain from the Moors.

* Fourth Siege of Gibraltar ( 1333 ) – Siege of Gibraltar, by King Alfonso XI of Castile in the Reconquista

In Portugal, Afonso I of Portugal ( then Afonso Henriques, Count of Portugal ) declared himself King in 1139, continuing the Reconquista, thus founding both the Portuguese monarchy and the modern country of Portugal.

Moorish Leiria was captured by the first King of Portugal, Afonso Henriques in 1135, during the so-called Reconquista.

Even as King Afonso Henriques advanced to the south, the Christian Reconquista never made it into Algarve and Alentejo, and remained under Moorish control.

In 1236, Córdoba was captured by King Ferdinand III of Castile in the Reconquista, and the mosque was turned into a Catholic church.

The play Más pesa el rey que la sangre, which translates into " The King weighs more than blood ( kinship )" is based on the episode of the Reconquista in which the nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán allows his son to be sacrificed, rather than surrender his King's possession of Tarifa.

Under heavy influence from Philip IV of France, Pope Clement V had the order annihilated throughout France and most of Europe on charges of heresy, but King Denis of Portugal, who found that the Order's assets should for their nature stay in any given Order instead of being taken by the King, re-instituted the Templars of Tomar as the Order of Christ, largely for their aid during the Reconquista and in the reconstruction of Portugal after the wars.

During the Reconquista, Alvito was conquered by the Portuguese in 1234, being later ( 1251 ) donated by King Afonso III to Estêvão Anes, chancellor of the kingdom, who promoted the settlement of the area.

In 1238, in the context of the Reconquista, the town was conquered by Portuguese King Sancho II, putting an end on centuries of Islamic domination in the Mértola region.

Despite a resurgence during the 10th century, the Caliphate of Córdoba's attempts to reverse the Reconquista failed, and by the 11th century, Christian Iberia was united under Sancho the Great, the King of Navarre, whilst the caliphate was divided and engulfed by civil war, the period of the taifas.

While the Reconquista paused in the west, to the east Alfonso the Battler, the King of Aragon, redoubled efforts to retake the valley of the Ebro.

After centuries of the Reconquista, in which Christian Spaniards fought to drive out the Muslims, the Spanish Inquisition against Muslims and Jews was established by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to complete the religious purification of the Iberian Peninsula.

* 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.

Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista with a war against the Emirate of Granada that started in 1482 and ended with Granada's complete annexation in early 1492.

* January 2 – Boabdil, the last Moorish Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege, ending the 10-year Granada War and the centuries-long Reconquista which brought an end to 780 years of Muslim control in Al-Andalus.

With the Reconquista in full swing after the conquest of Cordoba in 1236, the Nasrids aligned themselves with Ferdinand III of Castile, officially becoming the Emirate of Granada in 1238.

* July – Spain: In order to facilitate the movement of Reconquista, Pope Honorius III reverses Innocent III ’ s earlier judgement and declares Ferdinand III of Castile legitimate heir to the Kingdom of Leon.

His part in the Reconquista was similar in Mediterranean Spain to that of his contemporary Ferdinand III of Castile in Andalusia.

The Roman model was also used in Spanish settlements during the Reconquista of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Berengaria behaved like an actual queen while her son Ferdinand was in the south, on his long campaigns of the Reconquista.

* Reconquista ( Spanish America ), the military restoration of colonial governments loyal to Ferdinand VII of Spain following the Peninsular War in Europe

In 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Catholic Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic al-Andalus by victory in the Battle of Granada.

During the Reconquista, in 1233, king Ferdinand III was able to wrest the town from the Muslim rulers.

For about two hundred years, Medina Antaquira was repeatedly attacked by Christian kings during the Reconquista, and on September 16, 1410 an army led by Ferdinand I of Aragon conquered the city.

After the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon to Queen Isabella I of Castile, the Moors were finally forced out of Granada in 1492, completing the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.

A biographical romance novel of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand during the Reconquista.

During the Reconquista, Zafra was captured twice by Christian forces, first in 1229 by Alfonso IX, and then definitely by Ferdinand III, in a campaign through present-day Extremadura described in Alfonso X's Crónica General de España ( General History of Spain ).

The popular stories says that Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman III had executed a young man from León who was held as a hostage, because he had refused his advances during the Reconquista.

* 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.

The Portuguese side of the Reconquista ended in 1249 with the conquest of the Algarve ( Arabic الغرب — Al-Gharb ) under Afonso III.

Portugal had an important role in the Reconquista defeating the Moors and giving the country the current geographic aspect, an achievement made by king Afonso III.

Its clear structure can be seen Mudejar. It has three naves and can be classified among the religious monuments of the thirteenth century and fourteenth centuries, whose construction began after completion of the Reconquista by Fernando III. The head of the temple was built in the fifteenth century and was decorated with paintings of this era that can still be seen behind the Baroque altar.

The Portuguese Reconquista culminated in 1249 with the conquest of the Algarve by Afonso III.

Memorias de algunos linages ( An Account of Some Lineages ), attributed to Mena, claims that his family came from the valley of Mena in La Montaña, a region of the northern Spanish province of Cantabria, and served under Fernando III de Castilla and his successors in the Reconquista.

The Arch of Rest in Faro, Portugal | Faro, where Afonso III of Portugal legendarily rested after the " end of the Reconquista ".

* 1249-King Afonso III of Portugal takes Faro ( in the Algarve ) from the Moors, thus removing the last Muslim state from Portuguese soil and ending the Portuguese Reconquista.

* 1272 – Afonso III conquers Faro from the Moors, thus removing all Muslim communities from Portuguese soil and ending the Portuguese Reconquista.