convivencia

See also: convivência and convivència

English

Proper noun

the convivencia

  1. (historical) A period in Spanish history from the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 700s to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, during which (it is claimed) the Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in relative peace.

Spanish

Etymology

From convivir (“to live with”) +‎ -encia.

Pronunciation

Noun

convivencia f (plural convivencias)

  1. coexistence, cohabitation

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