Américo Castro

Américo Castro

Américo Castro Quesada (May 4, 1885 – July 25, 1972) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Américo Castro has received more than 43,972 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Américo Castro is the 361st most popular historian (down from 288th in 2019), the 503rd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 496th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Historian.