Battle of Cervera

When

4 Aug 1000

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

41.90° N, 3.47° W

Description

July 1000 battle

10th-century battle in Islamic Iberia

The Battle of Cervera took place near Espinosa de Cervera on 29 July 1000 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. The battle is listed as the fifty-second of Almanzor's career in the Dikr bilad al-Andalus.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le vizir des Omeyyades de Cordoue Almanzor bat les chrétiens espagnols coalisés à la bataille de Cervera”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “христиане разбиты Аль-Мансуром у Пенья Сервера”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en las Peñas de Cervera de Burgos, el caudillo musulmán Almanzor vence a la coalición cristiana (navarros, leoneses y castellanos) al mando de Sancho García y…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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