1493 New Granada [Tunisia]

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1493
Muhammad XII [Boabdil of Granada], has a major argument with his Mother and her Advisers, and moves to the City of Zarzis in SE Tunisia.

1494
Most of Moorish Grenadians fleeing from Spain either go to Tielsim [Small kingdom now part of Morocco] if followers of the Mother, or to Zarzis if a follower of Boabdil.

1496
The remains of the Granada Army has settled in the Valiyet of Zarzis, or in Valivet of Tripoli,

1496
Boabdil's Army defeats the Marluk's who are attempting to recapture Libya

1497
Enuff Moors have emigrated to the Region south of Zarzis that is is being called New Granada by Europeans.

1497
Portugal passes a degree requiring all Jews to Convert or leave Portugal.
Boabdil begins attracting a lot of the Spanish Jews, from Granada who had fled to Portugal . Along with them come thousands of Portuguese Jews.

1497
Death of MUHAMMAD AL-MAGHILI, a renowned theologian from Tlemcen. There are accusations of Assassination, thro nothing is ever proved.

1505
Muhammad XII leads his army to Tunis where the Sultan agrees to appoint Boabdil as his Heir.
Granada's Army begins to reassert control over the countryside, and bring the period of warlord-ism to a end.

1505
For the past 8 years Tunisia due to the urging of Muhammad XII has been encouraging the Portuguese Jews expelled under the 1497 degree to immigrate to Tunisia.
In this year the first Jewish run bakery and the first Jewish Farms are started.

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1497 - The decree was passed and only a token effort was attempted to enforce it.
Although the church was willing to either forced baptization and conversion upon the jews, Manoel I tended to look the other way. the Portuguese need the Jews, they fill a vital role in the running of the economy and without them it'll cause some havoc.


The death of Isabella of Aragon in 1498 due to childbirth only makes it so that Manoel I lapses in his treaty with the Castile/Aragon on expelling the jews.

So there will be no 1505 Degree forbidding Emigration,-- that will change Brazil and Angola.

1497
Portugal passes a degree requiring all Jews to Convert or leave Portugal.
Boabdil begins attracting a lot of the Spanish Jews, from Granada who had fled to Portugal . Along with them come thousands of Portuguese Jews.

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1497
Portugal passes a degree requiring all Jews to Convert or leave Portugal.
Boabdil begins attracting a lot of the Spanish Jews, from Granada who had fled to Portugal . Having been chased out of Spain They were taking no chances.
Immediately after the degree was passed thousands of Portugal Jews also fled. but as the fact of no time deadline, and the lax enforcement became known, the stream of Jewish immigrants slowed to a trickle.
1505
For the past 8 years Tunisia due to the urging of Muhammad XII has been encouraging the Portuguese Jews expelled under the 1497 degree to immigrate to Tunisia.
In this year the first Jewish run bakery and the first Jewish Farms are started.

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1505
For the past 8 years Tunisia due to the urging of Muhammad XII has been encouraging the Sephardi Portuguese Jews expelled under the 1497 degree to immigrate to Tunisia. thro this is just a trickle, when ever some local priest or bishop, took it into his head to rail against the Jews, there would be a minor spurt.
In this year the first Jewish run bakery and the first Jewish Farms are started.
This will lead to a trickle from the Oriental Jewish communities in the North beginning to arrive

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Anti Jewish riots rage in Lisbon, at the behest of Catholic priests, killing 3000 Jews. Manoel I stamps out the riots and executes the leaders. This definitely does not sit well with the Catholic Church.

New Granada
Dispite King Manoel's attempts to stop the Anti Jewish riots, thousands of new Jewish Settlers flood into Tunsia.
While the emigration slows to a trickle by the end of the Year it shows the Jews all across Europe how fragile the current attemts to rein in Anti Jewish Progroms, are.

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1515

Boabdil leads the Army as it reconquers Tlemcen. There Boabdil reconciles with his mother on her deathbed.

1517- 1518
Several thousand Jews, fleeing the War arrive in Tunsia, from both Spain and Portugal.

1518
Mohammad IV dies, and Muhammad XII becomes King of the Hasfids.

1519
Work begins on a series of Coastal Forts, designed to protect the increacing number of Farmers and Ranchers along the Coast.

1521
Work begins on the Great Coastal Road, from Oran to Tripoli. It is to link the series of Coastal forts

1522
Muhammad XII offers to allow the Ottoman Fleet attacking the Portugese Pirates, to resupply at New Granadian Ports.
With No Navy, Muhammad knows he couldn't stop them.
The Ottoman Admiral later remarks that it would have been cheaper to ship the supplies, from Moscow, than to buy them from the Granadians.

1523
Muhammad XII decrees, that native Born Jewish Sons are allowed to join the Military.
This immediatily increases the pool of Available recruits by 20 %.

1528
Granada begins work on rebuilding old and Construting new Cisterns under most towns along the Coast.
Some of these cisterns were originally built by the Romans over 1000 years before.
This leads to the slowing to almost a stop, of work on the Coastal Road.
Most work that continues is just repairing the old Roman Roads.

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1542
Granada begins building a series of Forts in the Tripolitinia Mountains south of Tripoli, Masratha, and Surt.
These are designed to control the mountain Oasis' that are being used by Bandits and raiders of the Coastal Caravans.

1546
Granada begins building a series of Forts along the border with the Kingdom Algiers.
Members of the Court wonder if it would be cheaper to take the Kingdom of Algiers. Planning begins.

1548
Granadian Merchants have established them self as the largest Trading Houses in Algiers, Fez and Morocco.

1549
Most of the old Roman Cisterns and Aqueducts have been repaired. The Expertise is now turned to building new Cisterns and Aqueducts.