Emirate of Granada
Emirate of Granada إمارة غرﻧﺎﻃﺔ Imarat Gharnāṭah | |||||||||
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| 1230–1492 | |||||||||
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| Motto: Wa lā ghāliba illā-llāh (There is no victor but God) | |||||||||
 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 | ||||||||
• Established | 1230 | ||||||||
| 1492 | |||||||||
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| Today part of |  Spain
 Morocco | ||||||||
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.
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.
Other websites
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- (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 Archived 2016-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
- (in French) Genealogy of the Muslim dynasties in Spain Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine