The Siege of Aledo was one of the many battles in the conflict between the Almoravids and the Taifa kingdoms on one side, and the Kingdom of Castile on...
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Roderici, which under the year 1088 reports that after the siege of Aledo, King Alfonso VI of Castile captured El Cid's wife and children, releasing them...
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crossed the Strait of Gibraltar for the second time, but was defeated at the siege of Aledo and suffered the desertion of many of the rulers of the taifas. When...
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siege of Aledo and perceive the weakness of the Taifas, undecided between the alliance with the Almoravids or the Christians. His position of strength...
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peninsula, 'Abdallah was coerced into aiding the unsuccessful Almoravid siege of Aledo. After this, he tried to play both sides: keeping up the payments to...
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Aledo is a municipality in the Region of Murcia, southern Spain. It is home to a castle built during the early Middle Ages by the Moors, to command the...
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calendar) of the Julian calendar. Almoravid forces (supported with fighters from local Andalusian provinces), under Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin, besiege Aledo, but...
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Yusuf ibn Tashfin (category History of Marrakesh)
javelins, each protected by a cuirass of Moroccan leather and iron-spiked shields. During the siege of the fort-town Aledo, in Murcia, previously captured by...
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El Cid (category 11th-century people from the Kingdom of León)
northernmost stronghold by initiating the Siege of Tudela and Alfonso captured Aledo, Murcia, blocking the route between the Taifas in the eastern and western...
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well during the battle. 1087 – Alfonso VI of León and Castile takes the fortress of Aledo in the territory of Murcia, blocking the route from Seville and...
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Almoravid dynasty (redirect from Almoravid Emirate of Morocco)
Sumadih of Almería and Ibn Rashiq of Murcia. They then set out to retake Aledo. The siege, however, was undermined by rivalries and disunity among the Taifa...
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This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent:...
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capture of the castle of Aledo, which meant the blockade of the routes between the Taifa of Seville and its territories and the taifas of the east of al-Andalus...
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In the Kingdom of Murcia, the revolutionary towns were Murcia, Cartagena, Lorca, Caravaca, Cehegín, and Totana. The castle of Aledo defended the monarchy...
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Yusuf ibn Tashfin, besiege Aledo, but are forced to retreat, by the arrival of Spanish troops of King Alfonso VI ("the Brave") of Castile. Catalonian troops...
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Juan Cabrero (category Age of Discovery)
Totana, Aledo and Las Casas of Granada, and the important Encomienda mayor of Montalban. The king also appointed Cabrero as one of the Thirteen of Santiago...
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