Blas Infante
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Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian nationalists.
Blas Infante, c. 1914
Monument to Blas Infante, Father of Andalusia, erected in the location where he was executed without trial by rebels in 1936.
Expulsion of the Moriscos
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The Expulsion of the Moriscos was decreed by King Philip III of Spain on April 9, 1609. The Moriscos were descendants of Spain's Muslim population who had been forced to convert to Christianity. Since
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…the Muslim history of Andalusia. He viewed the influence of Islam in Andalusia as contrary with the Europeanization of Spain, and referred to the exiled Moriscos as brothers. His wedding ring had inscription in Arabic. While Infante's ideas do not have broad support in modern Andalusia and his work is relatively…
The Expulsion at the Port of Denia, by Vicente Mestre
Embarking of the Moriscos at Valencia, by Pere Oromig
Disembarking of the Moriscos at Oran port (1613, Vicent Mestre), Fundación Bancaja de Valencia
The distribution of North African Admixture in the Iberian Peninsula