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

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

The Capture of Soure occurred in 1144, when the Almoravids of Santarém, invaded the Templar castle of Soure, which they sacked after defeating its garrison...

the County of Portugal to capture the territories of western Iberia that had already been held by the Almoravids in 1094. After the Battle of Sagrajas,...

The Capture of Leiria was a military engagement between the Almoravids and the Portuguese in the fort of Leiria. The Almoravids were victorious and sacked...

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...

Normans after the capture of the city. The leader of the papal contingent was a Norman by the name of William of Montreuil. The leader of the Spaniards was...

hope of relief, of which there was no sign. Baza was granted generous surrender terms, unlike Málaga. With the fall of Baza and the capture of al-Zagal...

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...

The Conquest of Majorca by Muslim troops took place in 902 or 903. It was fought by the Emirate of Córdoba and the Byzantine Empire who were besieged...

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...

The Battle of Alcalá or Battle of Cullera was fought in the castle of the Alcalans (Alcalá) between the Kingdom of Aragon and the Almoravid Caliphate...

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

take the fortified town of Gibraltar from the Moors of the Emirate of Granada. Capture of this position, which was weakly defended and was taken with little...

Alfonso XI of Castile to proceed with the siege of Algeciras, which eventually led to the city's capture. Reconquista Battle of Río Salado Siege of Algeciras...

raiding the Spanish coasts and it had captured the Balearic Islands in 1558. In the Spanish Netherlands, the preaching of Calvinist leaders had led to riots...

battle of Sacavém was a military clash between the first Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, and the Moors from the taifa of Badajoz, at the beginning of the...

favor of the Christians. Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the leader of the Almoravids, ordered its recapture and gave the command of a new expedition to capture it to...

The Conquest of Balaguer was the capture of Balaguer by Ermengol VI of Urgell from the Almoravids in 1105. Lubb ibn Muhammad, after defeating Wilfred...

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

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...

flooded country. The Siege of Córdoba, culminating in Ferdinand III's capture of the city, was a turning point in the Reconquista, consolidating Christian...

Iberia and the Balearic Islands as part of the larger history of Islamic Iberia. Some of the men that were captured in the siege were baptized afterwards...

Comunitat Valenciana, the official holiday of the Valencian Community. Once the Islamic Balânsia was captured, Pere d'Albalat consecrated the mosque into...

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...

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...

months later, primarily because of hunger within the city. Most of the crusaders settled in the newly-captured city, but some of the crusaders set sail and...

County of Portugal to attack the city of Coimbra and withdrew after failing to capture it. In 1111, the Almoravids attacked Portugal, captured Santarém...