The creation of the tradition of the political community of Spaniards as common destiny over other communities has been argued to trace back to the Cortes of Cádiz. From 1812 on, revisiting the previo
The promulgation of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 by the Cortes of Cádiz, as depicted in the painting of Salvador Viniegra (Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz).
Spanish guerrilla resistance to the Napoleonic French invasion of Spain at the Battle of Valdepeñas.
Francoist demonstration in Salamanca in 1937
Von Ribbertrop, Himmler, Franco and Serrano Suñer
The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Ki
Spanish nationalism
…tended to take for granted the national conscience and the Spanish nation. A by-product of 19th-century Spanish nationalist thinking is the concept of Reconquista, which holds the power of propelling the weaponized notion of Spain being a nation shaped against Islam. The strong interface of nationalism with…
Detail of the Cantiga#63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor
One of the arguments challenging the concept of Reconquista is that for the majority of the 781 years of Islamic rule in Iberia, Muslims and Christians coexisted and were not at war with each other.
Don Pelayo in Covadonga, Luis de Madrazo y kuntz, The painting depicts Don Pelayo, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Asturias, in the Battle of Covadonga, where he achieved the first Christian victory over Muslim forces in the Iberian Peninsula. This event is traditionally regarded as the symbolic beginning of the Reconquista.
Saint James the Great depicted as Saint James the Moor-slayer