The war of 1482-92 ended eight centuries of Muslim rule in Iberia when Granada surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella on 2 January 1492. The Capitulations of Santa Fe guaranteed the inhabitants their religion, law, property and the right to emigrate; the population of Malaga, taken by storm in 1487, had already been enslaved en masse, and thousands were sold or ransomed. From 1499 Archbishop Cisneros pressed mass baptisms in Granada, provoking the revolt of the Albaicin and the Alpujarras in 1499-1501; its defeat was followed by a Castilian pragmatic of February 1502 requiring all Muslims in Castile to convert or leave, extended to Navarre in 1515 and to the Crown of Aragon in 1525-26. Most converted rather than emigrate, creating the Morisco population expelled a century later. Numbers are poorly recorded: the emirate's population is reconstructed from later Castilian fiscal surveys rather than counted, and the volume of emigration is not documented.
Castile and Aragon conquered the Nasrid emirate of Granada, then set aside the surrender terms and required its Muslim population to convert to Christianity or leave
Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada and other historians of the conquest estimate the emirate at roughly 300,000 people, with wider ranges of 250,000-500,000; the figures are reconstructed from Castilian settlement and tax records compiled after 1492 rather than from any Nasrid census. Perhaps 100,000 left for North Africa during and after the war, and those who remained were required to convert after 1499-1502.
No usable death toll exists. The ten-year war, the storming of Malaga and the suppression of the 1499-1501 revolt all involved killing and mass enslavement, but the chronicles give no consistent figures and no modern reconstruction has produced a defensible total.
The mass enslavement of Malaga's inhabitants in 1487 and the public burning of Arabic manuscripts and the closure of mosques under Cisneros from 1499 are recorded in Castilian royal and municipal documents and in the Arabic and Castilian chronicles of the war.
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