Sentences with 'conversos'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conversos and other words derived from it.
• « Philip II also held conversos, the converted descendants of Spanish Jews, on suspicion of continuing to practice Judaism in secret, with the Spanish Inquisition frequently trying conversos on suspicion of heresy. »
• « The early assaults on Jews and Muslims had already driven out the most dynamic economic elements in Spain, and the attack on the Moriscos and conversos (descendants of Muslims and Jews who had converted to Catholicism) drove many of them away as well. »