The Expulsion was framed as completing the Reconquista of 711

Evidence

When we look for the beginnings of the policy of systematically expelling all Muslims from Spain, how far back should we search? Some might say, some did say, that we should look as far back as the Arab/Muslim Conquest itself. In this view, expulsion would be regarded as the final stage of the long process of reversing the invasion of 711: what in Spanish is generally known at the Reconquista. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1346

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the ideological equation of the 1609-1614 Expulsion with finishing the Reconquista.
• XREF: connects to: Spain’s Reconquista directly modeled its American colonial arrangements — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 132