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"However, we know from the letters of the Count of Salazar—appointed by King Philip III in 1610 to direct the operations to expel the Moriscos from the Crown of Castile, a task that the count carried out with particular zeal—the reality of his task: five years after the first expulsion orders in Castile, and when his mission was considered over, Salazar made repeated calls to the king and the Duke of Lerma, alarmed by the large number of Moriscos returning to their places of origin or resettling in other parts of the peninsula. The expulsion of the Moriscos from Castile, some of whom were already highly assimilated, was to a certain extent a fiasco. However, the expulsion of the Granadans [ citation needed ] and Valencians, who were much more numerous and of a decidedly Islamic character, was almost total.
According to Trevor Dadson, [ 12 ] the very fact that the expulsion decrees were repeated again and again, with ever greater threats, proves that such decrees were of very little real effectiveness in Castilian towns where the Moriscos were well integrated."
