Battle of Cervera
10th-century battle in Islamic Iberia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the battle in 1000 in Castile. For the battle in 1811 in Catalonia, see Battle of Cervera (1811).
The Battle of Cervera took place near Espinosa de Cervera on 29 July 1000[1] between the Christian troops of counts Sancho García of Castile and García Gómez of Saldaña and the Muslim Caliphate of Córdoba under the hajib Almanzor. The battle, "tremendous and difficult to describe", was a victory for Almanzor.[2] The battle is listed as the fifty-second of Almanzor's career in the Dikr bilad al-Andalus.
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Part of the Reconquista | |||||||
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Kingdom of Pamplona | Caliphate of Córdoba | ||||||
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Sancho García García Gómez | Almanzor | ||||||
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