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When did Granada become part of Christian-ruled Spain?

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Crusades Crusaders departing for the Holy Land, chromolithograph of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript.

Granada became part of Christian-ruled Spain on January 2, 1492, following the surrender of the city by the last Nasrid ruler, Muhammad XII (also known as Boabdil), to the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.123

This event marked the conclusion of the Reconquista, a centuries-long series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. While the kingdom of Granada had existed under Castilian suzerainty since the mid-13th century, the final military campaign—often referred to as the Granada War—effectively ended Muslim political power in the region upon the city's capitulation.132