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- Conquest_of_Ceuta comment "The conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese on 22 August 1415 marks a notable step in the Reconquista and a the same time the beginning of the Portuguese Empire as well as of European colonial expansion in general.Ceuta had served as a staging ground in the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 710, but it was destroyed in 740 and only rebuilt in the 9th century, passing to the Caliphate of Córdoba in the 10th.Ceuta had seen a period of political instability in previous decades, under competing interests from the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Granada. ".