Felipe III Issues A Proclamation Expelling The Moriscos

Felipe III issues a proclamation expelling the Moriscos. Over 300,000 people are banished, including about one-third of the population of Valencia. Parts of the Spanish countryside become deserted. Agriculture and industries sustained by the Moors decline significantly. In subsequent decades and centuries, Andalusi émigrés and their co-religionists recall with nostalgia the “lost paradise” known as Al-Andalus.