The Capture of Aceca was a military engagement between the Almoravids and the Castilians at the fort of Aceca, northwest of Toledo. The Almoravids were...

The Capture of Juromenha was a successful operation by the Almohad Caliphate against the Portuguese fortress of Gerald the Fearless. The Castle was captured...

Karim, attacked the capital of the Kingdom of Asturias, successfully capturing and sacking it. They failed, however, to capture the Asturian king. After...

group of Anglo-Norman crusaders on their way to Jerusalem were invited by King Afonso I Henriques of Portugal to participate in an attempt to capture the...

geopolitical importance by the rapid capture of Córdoba in 1236, which sent a shockwave through the Muslim world, the siege of Seville was nonetheless the most...

launched another campaign. The Almohads successfully captured Alcácer do Sal. They also captured Castle of Palmela and Almada. Now they headed towards their...

Sancho I of Portugal captured the major city of Silves in south-western Iberia, the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur decided to undertake a number of vigorous...

conquest of the Algarve, the southern-most region in modern-day Portugal, occurred between 1238, when the castle of Estômbar was captured by the Order of Santiago...

were taken to Ceuta, where they were paraded. Out of 51 ships, 28 galleys and 7 naos were captured; 11 galleys that had not been engaged fled to Cartagena...

the Iberian Peninsula. The Franks failed to capture Zaragoza and suffered a significant loss at the hands of the Vascones, but Charlemagne would return...

Chronicon of Robert of Auxerre, between the sack of Alvor and the capture of Silves. Nevertheless, Robert's account made its way into the chronicle of William...

of Oran, and the island of Djerba, south of Tunis, and went on to more important gains, with the bloody seizure of Oran in 1509, and the capture of Bougie...

Strait of Gibraltar with a powerful army, invaded Christian territory, and captured Salvatierra Castle, the stronghold of the knights of the Order of Calatrava...

victorious. Sayf al-Dawla was captured in the battle and subsequently assassinated. There are conflicting accounts of the circumstances that led to the...

victory, they failed to capture the city for unknown reasons. In early May 1130, the Aragonese launched another raid into the vicinity of Valencia, a sizeable...

thousands of soldiers, including champions from Castile. As soon as they arrived, they started destroying everything, carrying out massacres, and capturing livestock...

to devastate Gaul. The Umayyads reached the walls of Narbonne, where they burned the suburbs, captured many people, and gained rich loot. After that, they...

King of León and Castile, captured Toledo in 1085 and invaded the taifa of Zaragoza, the emirs of the smaller taifa kingdoms of Islamic Iberia found that...

the town of Torres Novas surrendered. He began to besiege Tomar but failed to capture the city. The main objective of al-Manṣūr was to capture Satarém...

of Alcácer do Sal which the Portuguese held. The siege was part of the Almohad campaign against Portugal in 1191. The Almohads succeeded in capturing...

intervention. Ramon was already planning to capture Lleida for himself. In October 1122, he allied with Ponç II of Empúries. Pope Callixtus II issued a crusading...

The Siege of Almeria was a successful attempt by the Almohads to capture the city of Almeria from the Christians in 1157, who had captured the city a decade...

[contradictory] a Friday, when the king, Ferdinand I of Leon, captured the city from the Muslims. The city of Coimbra had previously been taken from the Christians...

Tashfin ibn Ali ibn Yusuf (the son of the Almoravid Emir) takes the castle of Aceca south of Toledo. The Almoravid (Governor of Valencia) defeat invading Aragonese...

completely, twenty-two of the defending soldiers dying, and the rest, being captured with the rest of the population. The army of Abu-l-Nuaym Ridwan took...

city of Ávila and crossed the River of Guadalquivir. The Castilians attacked the suburbs of Écija then Cordoba. He ravaged the area and captured 50,000...

capture the city of Granada from the Almoravids. The expedition failed to achieve its objectives. With the Aragonese victories, such as the capture of...

siege of Tortosa was part of a decade of intense activity by Louis against the Umayyads in the region of Catalonia. Following Louis's capture of Barcelona...

was placed under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Évora. It was never again captured by Muslims, but its importance declined in relation...

payment of tribute (parias) from its ruler or for outright conquest. The capture of Tarragona, seat of an archdiocese, in 1088 increased the value of holding...