reconquest|reconquests in English

noun

[,re'con·quest || ‚rɪːkɑŋkwest /'kɒŋ]

repeated defeat, repeated vanquishment

Use "reconquest|reconquests" in a sentence

1. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland, replacing the earlier …

2. He had continually kept the people stirred up over the prospect of reconquest and had demanded loans for that express purpose.

3. The county began to form during the Christian reconquest of Sicily (1061–91) from the Muslim Emirate, established by conquest in 965.

4. The history of the county of Portugal is traditionally dated from the reconquest of Portus Cale (Porto) by Vímara Peres in 868.

5. Triassic corresponds to an extraordinary transgression in the sense of a new onlap of the sedimentary realm, a reconquest of ancient areas by new deposits, however their facies may be.

6. Other articles where Asturian is discussed: Reconquista: …about 718, when the Christian Asturians opposed the Moors at the Battle of Covadonga, the impulse toward reconquest was expressed only sporadically through the first three centuries of Muslim hegemony

7. The shrine marks the spot where the Asturians defeated the Moors in the year 722, starting the long process of the "Reconquest" of spain for Christianity, that was only completed in 1492 with the final expulsion of the Moors from their last fief, the caliphate of Granada

8. The term Azulejo comes from the Arabic word az-zulayj, meaning "polished stone." The Moors brought this term to the Iberian Peninsula, but despite their long presence, their influence in early Portuguese Azulejos was actually introduced from Spain in the 15th century, well after the Christian reconquest.