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Emirate of Granada إمارة غرﻧﺎﻃﺔ Imarat Gharnāṭah | |||||||||
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| 1230–1492 | |||||||||
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 Territory of the Nasrid Kingdom | |||||||||
| Status | Tributary state of the Crown of Castile | ||||||||
| Capital | Granada | ||||||||
| Common languages | Official language: Classical Arabic Other languages: Andalusi Arabic, Mozarabic, Berber, Ladino | ||||||||
| Religion | Majority religion: Islam Minority religions: Christianity (Roman Catholicism), Judaism | ||||||||
| Government | Hereditary monarchy | ||||||||
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• 1238–1273 | Mohammed I ibn Nasr | ||||||||
• 1487–1492 | Muhammad XII | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Middle Ages | ||||||||
• | 1230 | ||||||||
• | 1492 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Spain Morocco | ||||||||
The Emirate of Granada was an Islamic kingdom established in 1238. As the Reconquista was very successful after the conquest of Cordoba in 1236, the emirate officially became a tributary state in 1238 and was called the Kingdom of Granada. The Nasrid emirs and kings were responsible for building most of the palaces in the Alhambra. The taifa became a vassal state of the Christian kingdom of Castile for the next 250 years. The Nasrid sultans and kings paid tribute to the Christian kings and cooperated with them in the battle against rebellious Muslim kings under Castilian rule.
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