Knights of Alcantara

Japanese: アルカンタラ騎士団 - あるかんたらきしだん
Knights of Alcantara

…The name Extremadura, meaning “beyond the Duero River,” comes from the time when Christians confronted the Islamic world across the Duero River. In the 13th century, when the reconquest (War of the Reconquest) was being carried out with religious fervor, a group of warlike aristocrats, the Knights of Santiago and the Knights of Alcántara, were born in this region. Alfonso XI ordered the construction of a magnificent monastery in Guadalupe, a village associated with the legend of the descent of Mary, and defeated the Islamic army in the Battle of the Salado River (1340). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Order of Alcantara" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…エストレマドゥラの名は,〈ドゥエロ川の向こう〉を意味するように,キリスト教徒がドゥエロ川でイスラム世界と対峙していた時代に由来する。再征服(国土回復戦争)が宗教的熱狂を伴って進められる13世紀,この地方から好戦的貴族の集団,サンチアゴ騎士団,アルカンタラ騎士団が誕生した。アルフォンソ11世はマリア降臨伝説の村グアダルーペに壮大な修道院建造を命じ,サラド川の戦(1340)でイスラム軍を破った。…

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