People dressed up as Christian warriors participate in a parade during the celebration of the “Moros y Cristianos” (lit.: Moors and Christians) festival in Alcoy, Spain, 24 April 2016. The festival, which is mainly celebrated on the country's eastern coast, commemorates the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, a period of 800 years during which several Christian kingdoms gradually retook the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, who invaded it in 711 AD. (Photo by Manuel Lorenzo/EPA)
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