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Pope Alexander II sanctions an international expedition …
Years: 1060 - 1071
Pope Alexander II sanctions an international expedition to take the Spanish city of Barbastro from the Moors.
A large army composed of elements from all over Western Europe takes part in the successful siege of the city on Barbastro in 1064).
The war is part of the Reconquista, but in its international and papal character it presages the Crusades of the next two centuries.
In Muslim al-Andalus, the Arab emirate of Seville drives a wedge through the Berbers to the Atlantic, and the emirate of Toledo has replaced the Umayyad caliphate as Iberia’s preeminent Muslim polity.
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- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Moors
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Toledo, (Muslim statelet, or taifa, of)
- Sevilla, (Abbadid) Muslim statelet, or taifa, of
- Córdoba, (Hammudid) statelet, or taifa, of
- Aragón, Kingdom of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
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Years: 1060 - 1071
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Moors
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Toledo, (Muslim statelet, or taifa, of)
- Sevilla, (Abbadid) Muslim statelet, or taifa, of
- Córdoba, (Hammudid) statelet, or taifa, of
- Aragón, Kingdom of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions