Reconquered Definition

Reconquered Sentence Examples

• In 551 it was taken by Totila, but reconquered after his death by Narses for the Byzantine Empire.

• The country was overrun by the Goths in the 4th and 5th centuries, but reconquered by Justinian in 535.

• Spain reconquered the duchies in the war of succession (1745); they were recovered by Austria in 1746; and Maria Theresa again surrendered them to Don Philip, infante of Spain, in 1748.

• Ferdinand did not openly break his constitutional promises until Sicily was reconquered.

• The fifth Turkish war (1645-1668) entailed the loss of Crete; and though Morosini reconquered the Morea for a brief space in 1685, that province was finally lost to Venice in 1716.