Reconquista (disambiguation)

The Reconquista was the gradual military retaking ("reconquering") of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors.

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Reconquest or Reconquista may also refer to:

• Bloodless reconquest, the restoration of colonial government in Spanish New Mexico following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
• Reconquista de Buenos Aires, restoration of Spanish control of Buenos Aires in 1806: the city (at the time capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata) had been occupied by the British a few weeks before
• Reconquista (Spanish America), restoration of Spanish colonial possession in the New World, typically control of colonial governments loyal to Ferdinand VII of Spain following the Peninsular War in Europe
  • Reconquest (Chile), restoration of Spanish colonial possession of Chile during the War of Independence
  • Reconquista (Colombia), restoration of Spanish colonial possession following a rebellion in what is now Colombia
  • Santo Domingo / Dominican Republic:
    • Reconquista (Santo Domingo), restoration of Spanish colonial possession of Santo Domingo following a period of French occupation
    • Spanish occupation of the Dominican Republic, retaking of the former colony by Spain 17 years after it gained independence
• Reconquista, restoration of Portuguese colonial possession (or joint Portuguese and Spanish rule) following periods of Dutch occupation
  • Reconquest of Angola
  • Recapture of Bahia
  • Recapture of Recife
• Reconquista (Mexico), a modern irredentist movement advocating the restoration of Mexican control over territory now part of the United States
• Operación Reconquista de España, the 1944 invasion of the Aran Valley by the Spanish Maquis