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Four Kingdoms of Andalusia
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Four Kingdoms of Andalusia
The
Four Kingdoms of Andalusia
(
Spanish
:
cuatro reinos de Andalucía
or, in 18th-century
orthography
,
quatro reynos del Andaluzia
) was a collective name designating the four
kingdom
s of the
Crown of Castile
located in the southern
Iberian Peninsula
, south of the Sierra Morena. These kingdoms were won from Muslim rule by the Christian monarchs of Castile during the
Reconquista
; as such, all four were former
taifas
: the
Kingdom of Córdoba
was conquered in 1236, the
Kingdom of Jaén
in 1246
, the
Kingdom of Seville
in 1248 and the
Kingdom of Granada
in 1492. These four kingdoms occupied almost exactly the same territory as the present day
Spanish
autonomous community
of
Andalusia
.
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