Fernando {2p! M! Granada}
Posts : 50
Join date : 2015-07-24
Location : Granada, Spain.
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| Some music to listen to while reading to get you readers in the mood. . . Name: Fernando Fernández Carriedo.
- True name:
Before being forcefully converted into Christianity, he was named Khalid Abdallah.
Representative of: City of Granada.
Gender: Male.
Age: 21 years old of physical age. He was born around AD 711.
Brief personality: A humble and very polite young man, Fernando is an individual who appears to lack empathy and apathy. But as soon as he's spoken to, it gets quite clear that he has a tendency to take things to heart sometimes. He's prone to fall to extreme anxiety and distress, which he battles by holing himself up in his room and indulging himself in his literary work (e.g poetry, story writing, historical records). When forced into social situations, he can have the tendency to become really detached or even slightly rude. He's very protective of his personal space and sees his room as some sort of safe zone that strangers aren't allowed into. If he ever takes you to his room to snack and drink tea, it could be taken as a sign that the threshold of friendship has been passed and you have earned a rather loyal, earnest friend.
Brief physical description: Fernando appears to be an individual of mixed ethnicity. He has tanned and dark skin, but not as dark as his counterparts would've been back in the times of the Umayyad Empire. His eye colour is almost black and he has curly, fluffy brown hair that overwhelms his round face. He always straightens it. He has a very lithe body type that's not fit for fighting or doing exercise. He's exceptionally short as he stands at a height of 1,50 metres. His skin appears overall free of blemishes, but upon wearing things such as tank tops or t-shirts, a peek of his back can be seen, which is completely covered of extremely dreadful and textured scars of all types. He tends to dress pretty casually, usually wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and green cargo pants. Sometimes he has the tendency to go barefoot.
Brief history: Divided by stages, feel free to click on any for a brief walkthrough of each dominant historical period.
- Founding.:
The Umayyad conquest of Hispania, starting in AD 711, brought large parts of the Iberian Peninsula under Moorish control and established Al-Andalus. In the early 11th century, after a civil war that ended the Caliphate, the Berber Zawi ben Ziri established an independent kingdom for himself, the Taifa of Granada, with Illiberis as its capital. Jewish people were established in another area close to Illiberis, called Gárnata or Gárnata al-Yahūd ("Granada of the Jews"). Granada's historical name in the Arabic language was غرناطة (Ġarnāṭah).
The word Gárnata (or Karnatah) possibly means "hill of strangers". Because the city was situated on a low plain and, as a result, difficult to protect from attacks, the ruler decided to transfer his residence to the higher situated area of Gárnata. In a short time this town was transformed into one of the most important cities of Al-Andalus. By the end of the 11th century, the city had spread across the Darro to reach the hill of the future Alhambra, and included the Albayzín neighborhood (also called "Albaicín" or "El Albaicín", now a World Heritage site). The Almoravids ruled Granada from 1090 and the Almohad dynasty from 1166.
- Nasrid dynasty—Emirate of Granada.:
In 1228, with the departure of the Almohad prince Idris al-Ma'mun, who left Iberia to take the Almohad leadership, the ambitious Ibn al-Ahmar established the last and longest reigning Muslim dynasty in the Iberian peninsula, the Nasrids. With the Reconquista in full swing after the conquest of Córdoba in 1236, the Nasrids aligned themselves with Fernando III of Castile, officially becoming the Emirate of Granada in 1238. According to some historians, Granada was a tributary state to the Kingdom of Castile since that year. It provided connections with Muslim and Arab trade centers, particularly for gold from sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb, and exported silk and dried fruits produced in the area. The Nasrids also supplied troops from the Emirate and mercenaries from North Africa for service to Castile.
Ibn Battuta, a famous traveller and an authentic historian, visited the Kingdom of Granada in 1350. He described it as a powerful and self-sufficient kingdom in its own right, although frequently embroiled in skirmishes with the Kingdom of Castile.
During the Moor rule, Granada was a city with adherents to many religions and ethnicities (Arabs, Berbers, Christians and Jews) who lived in separate quarters.
- Reconquista by the Christian Spanish from Muslim Moors, and the 16th century.:
On January 2, 1492, the last Muslim ruler in Iberia, Emir Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil to the Spanish, surrendered complete control of the Emirate of Granada to Fernando V and Isabella I, Los Reyes Católicos ("the Catholic Monarchs"), after the last battle of the Granada War.
The 1492 surrender of the Islamic Emirate of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs is one of the most significant events in Granada's history as it marks the completion of the Reconquista of Al-Andalus. The terms of the surrender, expressed in the Alhambra Decree treaty, explicitly allowed the city's Muslim inhabitants to continue unmolested in the practice of their faith and customs, known as Mudéjar. By 1499, however, Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros grew frustrated with the slow pace of the efforts of Granada’s first Archbishop, Fernando de Talavera, to convert non-Christians to Christianity and undertook a program of forced Christian baptisms, creating the Converso (convert) class for Muslims and Jews. Cisneros's new tactics, which were a direct violation of the terms of the treaty, provoked an armed Muslim revolt centered in the rural Alpujarras region southwest of the city.
Responding to the rebellion of 1501, the Castilian Crown rescinded the Alhambra Decree treaty, and mandated that Granada's Muslims must convert or emigrate. Under the 1492 Alhambra Decree, Spain's Jewish population, unlike the Muslims, had already been forced to convert under threat of expulsion or even execution, becoming Marranos (meaning "pigs" in Spanish), or Catholics of Jewish descent. Many of the elite Muslim class subsequently emigrated to North Africa. The majority of the Granada's Mudéjar Muslims stayed to convert, however, becoming Moriscos, or Catholics of Moorish descent ("Moor" being equivalent to Muslim). Both populations of conversos were subject to persecution, execution, or exile, and each had cells that practiced their original religion in secrecy.
Over the course of the 16th century, Granada took on an ever more Catholic and Castilian character, as immigrants came to the city from other parts of the Iberian Peninsula. The city's mosques were converted to Christian churches or completely destroyed. New structures, such as the cathedral and the Chancillería, or Royal Court of Appeals, transformed the urban landscape. After the 1492 Alhambra decree, which resulted in the majority of Granada's Jewish population being expelled, the Jewish quarter (ghetto) was demolished to make way for new Catholic and Castilian institutions and uses.
- Legacy.:
The fall of Granada has a significant place among the important events that mark the latter half of the Spanish 15th century. It completed the Reconquista (or Christian reconquest) of the almost 800-year-long Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula. Spain, now without any major internal territorial conflict, embarked on a great phase of exploration and colonization around the globe. In the same year the sailing expedition of Christopher Columbus resulted in what is usually claimed to be the first European sighting of the New World, although Leif Ericson is often regarded as the first European to land in the New World, 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The resources of the Americas enriched the crown and the country, allowing Isabella I and Ferrando II to consolidate their rule as Catholic Monarchs of the united kingdoms. Subsequent conquests, and the Spanish colonization of the Americas by the maritime expeditions they commissioned, created the vast Spanish Empire: for a time the largest in the world.
Religious affiliation: Was originally Muslim, but pressured into converting to Christianity.
Any special powers or abilities: N/A. |
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