Medieval Spains

Several Spains

Once conquered the Iberian , the rulers and historians of the Iberian peninsula consider the five Christian kingdoms sometimes competing, sometimes allies that exist at the end of the period of the Middle Ages. Some survived the maximum territorial expansion of al-Andalus , as the small enclave of Asturias , others were cut on the steps recaptured.

The Christian kingdoms against the Almohad Empire in 1210, a period of al-Andalus, known as the Almohad conquest.

• the Iberia at the beginning of the Renaissance :
  • the crown of Castile (political expression), or both Castile; old and new north to south (geographic term)
    • the kingdom of Castile
    • the kingdom of Len
    • the Principality of Asturias
    • the kingdoms of Galicia , Algeciras, Toledo, Seville , Cordoba, Gibraltar, Jan
    • the lordship of Molina
  • The Crown of Aragon with
    • the kingdom of Aragon
    • the principality of Catalonia , also known as County of Barcelona
    • the counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya also called more simply Counties
    • the kingdom of Valencia
    • the kingdom of Mallorca
  • the kingdom of Portugal
  • the kingdom of Navarre
  • the kingdom of Granada.

At the end of the " critical year ", the political unification of the land, projects the country directly to the rank of an Empire , which multiplies the conquered lands as so many other steps: Hispaniola (1492), New Spain (1525), Empire, propelled to the forefront on the European scene in the space of a few decades, appoint viceroys on these new lands to ensure its regal administration.

Mediterranean hegemony of the Crown of Aragon

The Catalans have reached the pinnacle of their territorial reconquest with the capture of Valencia , the contact with the Kingdom of Granada longer invoked as the Castilians. Under the aegis of Aragon, they begin a period of expansion in the Mediterranean , they are Norman Sicily, and then reach Naples , this adventure will take them to Greece with the founding of the colonies of Athens and Nopatrie .

The Empire of Aragon in the Mediterranean, a prelude to the " Golden Age Catalan.

Two hundred years later, also overflowing warriors conquistadors and noblemen who have completed their reconquest, Castile provide both the land of Andalusia since the ranks of the conquerors through the archipelago of the Azores , they too will leave to conquer a New World.

See also

• Subsequent unification of Spain by the Iberian Union under the Habsburgs.

References

List of rulers of medieval Spain
Kings of Spain Spanish Emperor Kings of Portugal
Kings Visigoths in Hispania Sovereign of al-Andalus Sovereign of the crown of Castile - Kings of Asturias - Kings of Leon - Counts of Castile - Kings of Castile and Len - Kings of Castile - Kings of Galicia	Kings Sobrarbe Kings of Navarre Crown of Aragon - Counts of Barcelona - Kings of Aragon - Kings of Majorca - Kings of Valencia - Kings of Sardinia
Armorial of the Iberian Peninsula

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