15th–17th centuries
Edict of the Alhambra signed in Granada
1492·Grenade
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Jews of Spain have four months to convert or leave
The edict signed in Granada gave the Jews of Spain four months to convert to Christianity or leave the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.
It was signed in the city taken from the Muslims a few months earlier, which completed the reconquest; the sovereigns saw it as a single undertaking. The edict also applied to the lands of the Crown of Aragon outside the peninsula, thus to Sicily and Sardinia. Those who departed went to Portugal, where they would be forcibly converted four years later, to Navarre, North Africa, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, which received them and where they preserved their language into the twentieth century.
Spanish Judaism was then the oldest and most learned in the West; from its dispersion emerged the Sephardic world, with its communities in Salonique, Constantinople, Amsterdam, and Fès.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Espagne
Texte de l'édit d'expulsion ; Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain ; Ouvrages sur la dispersion séfarade.