The Reconquista (Spanish, Galician, Asturian: [rekoŋˈkista], Portuguese: [ʁɛkõˈkiʃtɐ], Catalan: Reconquesta [rəkuŋˈkestə], Basque: Errekonkista [erekonkis̺ta], "Reconquest"; Arabic: الاسترداد trans. al-Istirdād, [æl ɪstɪrˈdæːd], "the Recapturing") is a centuries-long period in the Middle Ages in which several Christian kingdoms succeeded in reconquering the Iberian Peninsula from the Islamic kingdoms collectively known as Al-Andalus.