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Converso Jews often became victims of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions.
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This confirms his Jewish-converso origin, for it is the maternal line that grants Jewish status.
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During the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands, converso merchants had a strong trading presence there.
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One of the founding fathers was a converso.
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Converso Merchants of Sephardic origin arrived in southern Hispaniola during the 16th and 17th centuries, fleeing the outcome of the Spanish Inquisition.
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At first, the activity of the Inquisition was limited to the dioceses of Seville and Cordoba, where Alonso de Hojeda had detected converso activity.
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For the purpose of clarity, in this article converso will be taken to mean one who has sincerely renounced Judaism or Islam and embraced Catholicism.
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Converso migration to the new Spanish colony began in 1530 after most of the violence from the conquest of the Aztec Empire had subsided and the Spanish Inquisition continued.
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The New Christian presence in Uruguay may date back to the 16th century, yet few documents relating to converso history during the Colonial period are extant.
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While it was long assumed that Cervantes was an Old Christian, many modern scholars have suggested that he may have descended from a so-called converso background.
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- (medieval Spain and Portugal) a Jew or Moor who professed to convert to Christianity in order to avoid persecution or expulsion
- Conversos (Spanish and Portuguese for "a convert", from Latin conversus, "converted, turned around") and its feminine form conversa referred to Jews or Muslims or the descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th ...
- [Spanish] a Muslim or Jewish individual forced to convert to Catholicism during their persecution in Spain after 1391
- Jew forced to convert under the Inquistion; a modern descendant living in the southwest U.S.
- A Spanish Jew converted to Christianity, usually by force; also a descendent of a converted Jew.
