A brief history of the Reconquista (718-1492 AD): Conquest, repopulation and land distribution

Francisco Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso Díez-Minguela (), Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado Fabregat ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alfonso Díez Minguela () and Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat

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Abstract: This article is an attempt to summarize in the space of barely twenty pages some of the characteristics of the historical process known as the Reconquista in the territories of today’s Spain. Since this was a process that spread across eight centuries, this brief history obviously is not and does not claim to be exhaustive. On the contrary, it goes without saying that it is partial, biased and incomplete, and should be considered simply as an introduction to the subject. It looks at the Reconquista from a territorial perspective with the intention of presenting some of the key elements that led to the creation of particular institutions. These varied from region to region and, it can be argued, had an impact on the long-term economic evolution of the various territories within Spain. On the one hand, the work focuses on the timing and evolution of the military conquest of territory, from north to south, in different historical stages, while on the other it looks at the subsequent repopulation of these conquered territories as the military action moved southwards. The institutions that were created and the way society was organized at each stage of the Reconquista, including the distribution of land ownership, depended on the different factors and circumstances prevailing in each historical period.

Keywords: land distribution; geography; institutions; Reconquista (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 N93 Q15 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 page
Date: 2020-12
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