As Nadeau and Barlow, have said, “Spain’s empire was indeed critical to Spanish. But the real force driving Spanish over the last thousand years has been the spirit of its speakers, at once ingenious and sensitive, cruel and caring, coarse and highly spiritual.” Without dismissing ...
Granada was under Moorish rule for around 800 years In AD 711, large parts of the Iberian Peninsula (now known as Spain) were brought under Muslim control, and these parts were called al-Andalus. al-Andalus had a mixed population of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Moorish buildings in the ...
Westerners are generally called “Ashkenazim”, from the old Hebrew term for Germany. Easterners were usually called “Sephardim”, from the old Hebrew term for Spain. But only a small part of the Easterners are actually descended from the flourishing Jewish community in medieval Spain. ...