The Moors were the Muslims of al-Ándalus baptized after the pragmatic forced conversion of the Catholic Monarchs of February 14, 1502 in the Crown of Castile, as the Cortes delayed in the Crown of Aragon until 1526. Both previously converted to Catholicism on a voluntary basis as the compulsory converts in the future became known as Moriscos. Before the forced conversion, to the Muslims who lived practicing in a more or less open way their faith in the Christian kingdoms, the historiography calls them Mudejars.
They were numerous in the Kingdom of Aragon and in the Kingdom of Valencia. In the Crown of Castile, their number is more difficult to determine, since they were highly integrated into society and had lost many of their differentiating features. His expulsion from the kingdom was decreed at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and the effort to do so lasted several years. While in the Crown of Aragon his expulsion was implacable and received the support of the Christian community, in Castile there was great resistance among the population and the authorities, so it was ineffective and there were large numbers of returnees.
