At the end of the 15th century there were about 50,000 Jews in Granada and roughly 100,000 in the whole of Islamic Iberia.
Berberi, ki so tvorili večino muslimanske osvajalske vojske, so se naselili v goratih regijah v sedanji severni Portugalski in na Centalni planoti (Meseta Central), medtem ko so se Arabci naselili na jugu in v dolini Ebra na severovzhodu.