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The trail of a Hispanic Islam, once the caliphate had disappeared, and although generating a rich and flourishing cultural and economic period, was impossible because of the irrepressible pressure of the Christian kingdoms. The taifa kings successively called on the help of two warlike fundamentalist movements that emerged in North Africa: the Almoravids (11<sup>th</sup>-12<sup>th</sup> centuries) and the Almohads (12<sup>th</sup>-13<sup>th</sup> centuries). Nevertheless, for almost three centuries, the two North African empires were a suprastructure, more military and less political, with which the Spanish-Muslim aristocracies coexisted. Great victories of the Almoravids (Sagrajas and Uclés) and Almohads (Alarcos) did not reverse the situation in the Peninsula.
When Alfonso I of Aragon, after conquering Saragossa, defeated the Almoravids in Cutanda Battle and when Alfonso VI of Castile withstood the onslaught against Toledo, it was predicted that the Christian configuration was going to be consolidated. The crucial test would come with the Almohad invasion. The Castilian King Alfonso VIII, with the help of the Portuguese, Navarrese and Aragonese, military orders and knights from all over Europe, was already capable of inflicting on Islam its most spectacular defeat , [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZJxQzEcMc Las Navas de Tolosa] (1212). When In turn, Alfonso I IX of Aragon, after conquering SaragossaLeon his son-in-low, defeated the Almoravids in Cutanda Battle and when Alfonso VI of Castile withstood the onslaught against Toledo, it was predicted that only one who had not responded to the Christian configuration was going call for a crusade to be consolidatedLas Navas, seizes all of Extremadura. Hispanic Islam is definitively sentenced, except for a beleaguered Kingdom of Granada. The crucial test would come with the Almohad invasion [https://www.youtube. The Castilian King Alfonso VIII, with the help com/watch?v=5-_qJg6jIgQ Kingdom of the PortugueseLeon], Navarrese and Aragonese, military orders and knights from all over Europe, was already capable of inflicting on Islam its most spectacular defeat El reino de León, menos en dos breves periodos except for two brief periods (1035-1037 y and 1065-1072) había constituido una sola monarquíahad constituted a single monarchy. Entre los siglos XII y XIIIBetween the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, la división en dos reinos duraría desde the division into two kingdoms would last from 1157 hasta to 1230, fecha en la que when Fernando III (hijo de son of Alfonso IX y and Berenguela de Castillaof Castile) une definitivamente las dos coronas de Castilla y de Leóndefinitively united the two crowns of Castile and Leon, que se traduce en una which resulted in an immediate [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_qJg6jIgQ expansiónGsKJ0hT90pU expansion] inmediata por el valle del through the Guadalquivir hasta las costas atlánticas y por levante hasta las costas mediterráneasvalley to the Atlantic coasts and east to the Mediterranean coasts. En este espacio iba a colisionar con AragónIn this territory it was going to collide with Aragon, donde Jaime where James I venía avanzando al sur del had been advancing south of the Ebro por todo el litoralriver along the coast, en paralelo con parallel to Fernando III, espacio en debate por los constantes tratados de futuros límitesa territory under discussion due to the constant treaties of future limits, prueba de la evidence of the secular planificación de la planning of the ''Reconquista''.
Además de las In addition to the Navas de Tolosa, otra batalla había marcado un giro importante en la Edad Media peninsularanother battle had marked an important turn in the Peninsular Middle Ages: la de that [https://www.abc.es/historia/20130913/abci-muret-batalla-acabo-gran-201309061349.html Muret], tras la cual la corona aragonesaafter which the Aragonese crown, ceñida desde held since 1137 por la dinastía catalana de los by the Catalan dynasty of the Berenguer, renuncia a los espacios nordpirenaicos renounced the north-Pyrenean territories (reconocido en el tratado de recognised in the Treaty of Corbeil de of 1258, entre Jaime between James I de of Aragón y Luis and Louis IX de Franciaof France), y se vuelca hacia el sur, como se ha visto, para cerrar su expansión and turned south to complete its peninsularexpansion. InmediatamenteImmediately after that, se inició la expansión la mediterráneathe Mediterranean expansion began.
Jaime James I, igual que Luis like Louis IX, organiza una cruzadaorganised a crusade, aunque fracasabut failed. En In 1282, tras las ''vísperas sicilianas''after the Sicilian Vespers, Pedro Peter III de Aragón se corona rey de Siciliaof Aragon was crowned king of Sicily. En In 1304 los almogávaresthe Almogavars, llamados por el emperador de Bizanciocalled by the emperor of Byzantium, [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Entrada_de_Roger_de_Flor_en_Constantinopla_(Palacio_del_Senado_de_Espa%C3%B1aPalacio_del_Senado_de_España).jpg/800px-Entrada_de_Roger_de_Flor_en_Constantinopla_(Palacio_del_Senado_de_Espa%C3%B1aPalacio_del_Senado_de_España).jpg vencendefeated] a los turcos en the Turks in Asia Menor y se apoderan de AtenasMinor and seized Athens. En In 1323 Jaime , James II inicia la conquista de Cerdeñabegan the conquest of Sardinia. En In 1352, la escuadra catalana derrota a los genoveses en pleno Bósforothe Catalan squadron defeated the Genoese in the Bosphorus. En In 1442, Alfonso V conquista Nápoles…conquered Naples.
Los ''cinco reinos''The five kingdoms: Castilla y Aragón se han consolidado definitivamenteCastile and Aragon have been definitively consolidated. Navarra, tras su exitosa participación en las after its successful participation in the Battle of Las Navas, se queda más en retaguardiaremains more in the rearguard. Portugal se convierte en un reino tras la victoria de became a kingdom after the victory of Alfonso Enriquez, en in Ourique; sus fronteras its borders (reconocidas en el tratado de recognised in the Treaty of Zamora) son las más antiguas de Europaare the oldest in Europe. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXb9S3N334A Granada], el ''quinto reino''the fifth kingdom, pervivió como enlace comercial con África y Orientesurvived as a trade link between Africa and the East. Castilla ha de hacer frente en el Castile had to face the North African invasion of the Benimernes in El Salado y and Palmones a la invasión norteafricana de los benimerines; luego se dedica a la apertura del Estrechobattles and then focused on the opening of the Gibraltar Strait, con las conquistas de with the conquests of Tarifa, Algeciras y and Gibraltar. DespuésLater, bajo el gobierno de la dinastía under the rule of the Trastámaradynasty, entronizada tras una guerra enthroned after a civil war (1336-1339), presiona con mayor fuerza las fronteras nazaríes y toma they put greater pressure on the Nasrid borders and took Zahara (1407), Antequera (1410) y and Archidona (1462).
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