16.1 Fall of Toledo 1085, Part 1, Medieval Spain

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 2 May 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The History of early medieval Spain from the Islamic conquest in 711 to the establishment of the magnificent Caliphate of Cordoba, and the first successful Christian resistance which will ultimately lead to the reconquest, or Reconquista, of the Iberian peninsula www.historyeurope.net

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Last year, the Islamic extremist group, ISIS, or in Arabic, Diyash, took control of large parts of northern and western Iraq. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
0:59.5	is said to have been proclaimed as caliph by his followers. This title has the meaning of the
1:06.7	successor to the Prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of the entire Muslim world.
1:12.6	Therefore, there can theoretically only be one caliph at any one time.
1:18.6	In the 930s, the leader of Muslim Spain, Abd al-Raman III made the same bold claim,
1:26.6	demonstrating great confidence in the power of the kingdom that he led.
1:33.3	At the end of the last podcast, I said that the next episode would be on the First Crusade.
1:40.9	After further research, I decided now would instead be a good time to tell the story of early medieval Spain,
1:48.0	the splendid caliphate of Cordova and the gradual reconquest or reconquista of the peninsula by the Christians.
1:57.0	Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, the fall of Toledo in 1085, part one of three.
2:10.1	The Iberian Peninsula appears on the map as one of the most clearly defined geographical entities on the European continent.
2:19.7	It is bounded on three and a half sides by the sea, in anti-clockwise direction, the Mediterranean,
2:27.0	the Straits of Gibraltar, the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay.
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