Exile, diversification and overcoming. Survival strategies followed by the Spinola of Granada in the face of the final war of conquest (1481-1492)
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The War of Granada (1481-1492) meant the final conquest of the last Muslim bastion in the Iberian Peninsula. Foreign merchant communities were forced to leave it facing the impossibility to carry on with its trading activities. Exceptionally the present paper aims to study how did they face exile and which survival strategies did they assume, through the diversification of businesses and risks, following the activities of some members of the Genoese Spinola family. It is a circumstance that marked a definitive inflexion point, for upon their return to the Nasri capital they would take the most advantage of the experience acquired during exile.
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