spain had a large muslim population for almost 800 years.
spain had a large muslim population for almost 800 years.
which country had a large muslim population for almost 800 years?
spain
in 2015 the spanish parliament passed a law recognizing as spanish those presumed to be descendants of the jews expelled in 1492, thereby annulling the consequences of that expulsion.









































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section::::background.:jews in the peninsular medieval christian states.









































until the fourteenth century the jews who lived under the muslim caliphates of al-andalus were tolerated.









































on january 2, 1492, the catholic monarchs conquered the nasrid kingdom of granada. the last muslim king, boabdil, withdrew to the alpujarras after almost 800 years of muslim rule were ended by the reconquista.
expulsion of jews from spain
on 7 april 1939, italy headed by benito mussolini after prolonged interest and overarching sphere of influence during the interwar period invaded albania. muslim albanians were involved in initial resistance to the italians like major abaz kupi who with meagre weapons led albanian forces and later resisted from the mountains of northern albania, while king zog fled abroad. the italians established a local collaborationist government and some members came from the muslim population like the landowning prime minister shefqet vërlaci. albania's borders were expanded and encompassed contemporary western macedonia, western and central kosovo, parts of south western montenegro which contained large muslim albanian populations and part of the sandžak region that mainly had a slavic muslim population. due to zog having creating a compliant leadership of all the religious groups, the arrival of the axis forces was met with almost no issue from them. of the muslim albanian population, the italians attempted to gain their sympathies by proposing to build a large mosque in rome, though the vatican opposed this measure and nothing came of it in the end. the italian occupiers also won the sympathy of albanian muslims by causing their working wages to rise. mussolini's son in law count ciano also replaced the leadership of the sunni muslim community, which had recognized the italian regime in albania with clergy that aligned with italian interests, with an easily controlled "moslem committee" organization, and fischer notes that "the moslem community at large accepted this change with little complaint". while most of the bektashi order and its leadership were against the italian occupation and remained an opposition group. fischer suspects that the italians eventually tired of the opposition of the bektashi order, and had its head, nijaz deda, murdered. except from the bektashis, the italians allocated money for the budgets of the three other religious communities during their time in albania.
islam in albania (1913–1944)