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alminar
minaret of a mosque
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almohades
Arab dynasty that defeated the Almoravids, who reigned in North Africa and Andalusia from 1147 to 1212
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almorávides
Arab dynasty that conquered Fez, Morocco, and Southern Spain from 1055 to 1147
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beréber o berebere
a non-Arab ethnic group from North Africa
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califato
caliphate, territory governed by an Arab prince or chief called a caliph
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cantares de gesta
medieval epic poems
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emirato
emirate, territory governed by an emir, an Arab prince or chief
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estado llano o común
third-estate, the common people
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hispanogodos
Spanish-Visigoths
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Mahoma
Mohammed (founder of Islam)
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Marca Hispánica
region of Spain (corresponding to present-day Catalonia) that was conquered by the Franks at the beginning of the ninth century
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mester de clerecía
clerical verse
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mester de juglaría
minstrel verses
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mozárabes
Spanish Christians who lived among the Moors
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mudéjares
Moslems who remained in Spain after the Reconquest
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muladíes
Spaniards who accepted the Muslim faith
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nazarí o nazarita
Arab dynasty that ruled over Granada from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries
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omeya
Ommiad, Arab dynasty that reigned in Damascus from 661 to 750 A.B.
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poesía trovadorsca
troubadour poetry
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Reconquista
Reconquest, the period from 718 to 1492 during which the Spanish fought the Moorish invaders
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reinos de taifas
Moorish kingdoms created in Spain after the end of the caliphate of Cordova in 1031
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sistema de presura
system of land distribution during the Reconquest under which a person had the right to take land and work it.
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