Pope Alexander II sanctions an international expedition…

1060 CE to 1071 CE

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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Pope Alexander II View →

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Arab people View → Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) View → Moors View → Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View → Toledo, (Muslim statelet, or taifa, of) View → Sevilla, (Abbadid) Muslim statelet, or taifa, of View → Córdoba, (Hammudid) statelet, or taifa, of View → Aragón, Kingdom of View → Christians, Roman Catholic View →

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Reconquista, the View → Barbastro, War of View →

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Weapons View →

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Group: OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference)
People: Arsaces I of Parthia
Location: Al Artawiyah Ar-Riyad Saudi Arabia
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