Spain


 * Site of Ferdinand II's brutal Inquisition against non-Christians
 * Alhambra decree expelled Sephardic Jews in 1492
 * Important centers of scholarship include the Nasrid Court and the University of Salamanca
 * The Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela was killed in a 1066 massacre during a period of general religious tolerance known as "The Coexistence"
 * Luis de Leon was imprisoned for translating Song of Songs
 * Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical "Dilectissima Nobis" about church prosectution here