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Moore (FORT power of the Moors)

FORT power of the Moors was restricted to the kingdom of Granada, and in 1238 the king of that territory became the vassal of Ferdinand III., King of Castile. At length, in 1491, Ferdinand V., King of Castile and Aragon, after a 10 years' war, conquered this also, and put an end to the dominion of the Moors in Spain, after it had lasted nearly 800 years. A portion of the Moors then returned to Africa; but most of them remained in Spain, where they became peaceful and industrious subjects, and adopted generally the external forms of Christianity. Philip II., however, in his hot zeal for Catholicism, resolved on *heir entire destruction, and by his oppressions and cruelties, drove them into insurrection, in Granada (1571), after the suppression of which, over 100,000 of them were banished.