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Battle of Sagrajas
Part of the Reconquista
Battle of Sagrajas
Date
23 October 1086
Location
North of Badajoz
Result
Muslim Coalition victory[1]
Belligerents
Kingdom of León Kingdom of Castile Kingdom of Aragon
Almoravids
Taifa of Seville
Taifa of Badajoz
Taifa of Granada
Taifa of Almería
Taifa of Málaga
Taifa of Toledo
Taifa of Zaragoza
Taifa of Lisbon
Taifa of Albarracín
Taifa of Valencia
Commanders and leaders
Alfonso VI Álvar Fáñez Sancho Ramírez of Aragon
Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad of Seville
Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mutawakkil of Badajoz
Abdallah ibn Buluggin of Granada
Ahmad bin Muhammad of Almería
Tamim of Málaga
Yahya al-Qadir of Valencia
Strength
2,500[2][3]
7,500[a]
Casualties and losses
2,000[b]
3,000[c]
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The Battle of Sagrajas (23 October 1086), also called Zalaca or Zallaqah (Arabic: معركة الزلاقة, romanized: Maʿrakat az-Zallāqah), was fought between the Almoravid army led by their King Yusuf ibn Tashfin and an army led by the Castilian King Alfonso VI. The Almoravids responded to the call of Jihad by the taifas which commonly fought amongst themselves however they had united to battle the powerful Christian states to the north. The Taifas aided the Almoravids during the battle with troops, favoring the battle for the Muslim side. The battleground was later called az-Zallaqah (in English "slippery ground") because of the poor footing caused by the tremendous amount of bloodshed that day, which gave rise to its name in Arabic.
^Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military history, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), 324.
^Lewis, David Levering, God's Crucible, (New York: W & W Norton Inc, 2008), 364.
^Bernard F. Reilly, The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain: 1031-1157, (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), 88; " To the battle which took place on October 23, 1086, at Zalaca just north of Badajoz, Alfonso brought an army that numbered about 2,500 men...".
^Lewis, God's Crucible, 361, 364; "Yusuf had the advantage of number--probably three times larger than those under Alfonso's command after the arrival of King 'Abd Allah of Granada."
^ abRonald A. Messier, The Almoravids and the Meanings of Jihad, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 207.
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