23.1 Early Muslim Medieval Spain

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 16 January 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Before 1085 in Spain there was little question that it was the Muslims who had the upper hand in the balance of power. But after King Alfonso VI captured the city of Toledo in 1085, the Christians became much more confident and threatened to rapidly take over the whole peninsula. Why this didn’t happen can be explained for two reasons – firstly, the infighting between Christian rulers, and secondly, the influx of Muslim peoples from north Africa, firstly the Almoravids

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Today's battle, Las Navas de Tolosa of the year 1212 has many times been described as the most decisive battle of medieval Spanish history.
0:56.1	For example, the Spanish author Gonzalo Martin of Deiath,
0:59.8	in his biography of King Alphonseo the 8th of Castile,
1:03.1	describes it as, quote,
1:04.2	the most decisive battle of the eight centuries of reconquista, end quote.
1:09.9	Francisco Garcia Fritz, in his book entitled Las Navas de Tolosa,
1:14.6	discusses this question further,
1:16.6	enlist the criteria he believes a particular battle would require to merit such a label.
1:22.6	Firstly, there must be a conclusive result for one of the parties involved.
1:28.3	Secondly, a so-called decisive battle typically puts an end to a long military conflict and helps determine the outcome of that conflict.
1:38.3	Thirdly, the result of the battle has profound consequences, political, socioeconomic and cultural,
1:45.8	which are long term and affect a large number of people, including those who were nowhere near
1:51.3	the battleground. As such, it often involves the fall of a great power or the birth of a new one.
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