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People: Angelino Dulcert
Topic: Moriscos, Expulsion of the
Location: Skúvoy Faroe Islands

Moriscos, Expulsion of the

Years: 1604 - 1619

On April 9, 1609, King Philip III of Spain decrees the expulsion of the Moriscos, the descendants of the Muslim population that had converted to Christianity under threat of exile from Ferdinand and Isabella in 1502.

From 1609 through 1614, the Spanish government systematically forces Moriscos to leave the kingdom for Muslim North Africa.They are only allowed to keep what money and possessions they can carry; the rest, including their property, is impounded.

The expulsion especially affects the former Kingdom of Valencia and Kingdom of Aragon, harming their economies for generations.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)