Moriscos

E66069

Moriscos were former Muslims in Spain who had been forcibly converted to Christianity and later faced widespread suspicion, discrimination, and eventual expulsion in the early 17th century.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Moriscos canonical 5
Mudéjares 2
Andalusian Moriscos 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethno-religious group
religious minority
causeOfExpulsion fear of Ottoman and Muslim alliances
internal security concerns
religious uniformity policies
conversionType forced conversion
country Spain
culturalAssimilationPolicy bans on traditional dress
forced dispersal and resettlement
prohibition of Arabic language
culturalPractice secret Islamic rituals (crypto-Islam)
use of Arabic in private
discriminationType ethnic discrimination
religious discrimination
social segregation
economicRole agricultural laborers
artisans
traders
endTime early 17th century
ethnicOrigin Moriscos self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mudéjares

Muslim population of al-Andalus
expelledBy Philip III of Spain
expelledDestination France
Italy
North Africa
Ottoman Empire
surface form: Ottoman territories
expelledFrom Crown of Aragon
Crown of Castile
expulsion Expulsion of the Moriscos
expulsionEnd 1614
expulsionStart 1609
language Aljamiado
Arabic
Spanish
legalStatus baptized Christians under Spanish law
mainChristianDenomination Roman Catholicism
mainRegion Kingdom of Aragon
Castile
surface form: Kingdom of Castile

Kingdom of Granada
Kingdom of Valencia
notableEvent Morisco Revolt in Granada
surface form: Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571)
populationStatus suspected of crypto-Islam
relatedTo Moriscos self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mudéjares

Islamic Spain
surface form: al-Andalus
religionAfterConversion Christianity
religionOriginal Islam
startTime late 15th century
subjectTo Spanish Inquisition
timePeriod early modern period
late Middle Ages

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Moriscos
Description of subject: Moriscos were former Muslims in Spain who had been forcibly converted to Christianity and later faced widespread suspicion, discrimination, and eventual expulsion in the early 17th century.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Inquisition targetedGroup Moriscos
Moriscos ethnicOrigin Moriscos self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mudéjares
Moriscos relatedTo Moriscos self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mudéjares
Morisco Revolt in Granada languageCommunity Moriscos
this entity surface form: Arabic-speaking Moriscos
Morisco Revolt in Granada ethnicGroupInvolved Moriscos
this entity surface form: Andalusian Moriscos
Aljamiado associatedWith Moriscos
Aljamiado culturalContext Moriscos
this entity surface form: Morisco culture