The Granada capitulations betrayed
1499 · Event
The surrender terms had promised Granada's Muslims their faith, their law and their mosques. Seven years on, Cardinal Cisneros arrives with mass baptisms and Arabic book-burnings; the Albaicín rises, the revolt is crushed, and by 1502 the choice across Castile is conversion or exile. Within a century even the converts' descendants, the Moriscos, will be expelled.
On these timelines: The Fall of Granada, Spain, Islam, Major Religions, Christianity
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