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Battle of Alcácer Quibir

Battle of Alcácer Quibir
Part of the Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts
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Battle at Ksar el Kebir, depicting the encirclement of the Portuguese army on the left
Date 4 August 1578
Location Alcácer Quibir, Morocco
Result Decisive Saadi Empire victory.
1580 Portuguese succession crisis.
Rise of the Moroccan Saadi Empire
Belligerents
 Portugal
Papal States
Castilian volunteers
German mercenaries
Moorish allies
Morocco Sultanate of Morocco
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders

Sebastian I of Portugal  
Abu Abdallah Mohammed II  

Thomas Stukley  

Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I  
Ahmad al-Mansur

Rabadan Pacha
Strength
18,000-23,000 Europeans (including:
2,000 Castilian volunteers
600 Italian volunteers
3,000 mercenaries from Flanders and Germany)
6,000 Moors
40 cannons
60,000-100,000 men
Casualties and losses
8,000 dead
15,000 captured
Unknown

Sebastian I of Portugal  
Abu Abdallah Mohammed II  

Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I  
Ahmad al-Mansur

The Battle of Alcazar (Portuguese: Batalha de Alcácer Quibir, also known as "Battle of Three Kings" (معركة الملوك الثلاث) or "Battle of Oued al-Makhazin" (معركة وادي المخازن) in Morocco) was fought in northern Morocco, near the town of Ksar-el-Kebir (variant spellings: Ksar El Kebir, Alcácer-Quivir, Alcazarquivir, Alcassar, etc.) and Larache, on 4 August 1578. The combatants were the army of the deposed Moroccan Sultan Abu Abdallah Mohammed II, with his ally, the King of Portugal Sebastian I, against a large Moroccan army nominally under the new Sultan of Morocco (and uncle of Abu Abdallah Mohammed II) Abd Al-Malik I.

The Christian king, Sebastian I, had planned a crusade after Abu Abdallah asked him to help recover his throne. Abu Abdallah's uncle, Abd Al-Malik, had taken it from him with Ottoman support. The defeat of Portugal and attendant death of the childless Sebastian led to the end of the Aviz dynasty, and the integration of the country in the Iberian Union for 60 years under the Philippine Dynasty in a dynastic union with Spain.


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