A Note Book In Northern Spain Classic Reprint

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528242981
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Alhambra written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of the Alhambra: Selected for Use in Schools, With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes Qthe conquest of Spain by the Arabs was at first Simply a change of rulers, not of population. The masses of the people were not disturbed in their property Or in their business. They paid taxes which supported the Arab rulers and the army of Arabs and Moors. All religions were tolerated. The Arabs were an intellectual race, and by association acquired the culture and civilization of the people whom they had con quered and with whom they lived. For two hundred and fifty years Spain under Arab rulers surpassed every other European nation in architecture, literature, science, manufactures, and agriculture. The Christian princes had been driven into the mountains of Northern Spain. One of these princes established the petty kingdom of Asturias in the mountains of the north, seven years after the landing of the Arabs. His successors drove the Arabs from Galicia and from Leon, and in the tenth century became kings of Leon. Later on, Navarre, Aragon, Castile, and Portugal, successively threw Off the Arab control. Each became an independent kingdom, at first very small, but gradually pushing its boundaries southward. In 997, Almansor, the chief minister of the Arab ruler, regained most of the lost ground, but it was lost again in a great battle in 1002, after which Arab rule never extended north of the river Tagus. A few years later the Arab empire in Spain was broken up into a number of independent principalities, under Emirs (commanders). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.