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History Mallorca History The resurgence of the Christians - 13th
Century The resurgence of the Christians was inevitable, but it
took hundreds of years for the Christian kings and warlords to
succeed in subduing the Moors. It was during this time that the
Balearics were reconquered. It was the beginning of the 13th
century and the Christian Catalonians, a stone’s throw away on
the mainland, were growing in commercial and political
importance and dreamt of seizing the islands for themselves. By
controlling Mallorca/Majorca they knew they would have the key
to all the maritime and commercial traffic in the western
Mediterranean. In 1229, led by King James I of Aragon, who was
only 20 years old at the time, they set sail with a 150 strong
fleet. The first soldiers set foot on the island on 7th
September but it wasn’t until almost 4 months later on the 31st
of December that the city finally fell. The city was raided and
most of its inhabitants were eith