On this day, 533 years ago, on January 2, 1492 (December 3, 1491, the Spanish army captured Granada, the last important town of the Moors on the Iberian Peninsula. The statue of St. James, the symbol of the Resquer Movement, on January 2, 1492, the Spanish army captured Granada, the last important town of the Moors on the Iberian Peninsula, and the Resquer Movement ended. The Reconquista Movement (Spanish, Portugal: Reconquista) was a movement in which Christian countries located in the northern Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe gradually defeated the Muslim Moor regime in the south between 718 and 1492. Historians began the recovery movement with the Umayyad Arab conquest of the Kingdom of Vigoth and the founding of the Kingdom of Asturias in 718, and ended with the fall of Granada in 1492. The Spanish and Portugal name of the event, the word "Reconquista" means "reconquest." Comment: The Nesr Dynasty fell, and the nearly seven-century-old movement to recover lost territory came to an end.