Battle of Sagrajas

Battle of Sagrajas
Part of the Reconquista
Date 23 October 1086 Location North of Badajoz Result Decisive Almoravid victory
Belligerents
Leon and Castile Aragon	Almoravids Taifa of Seville Taifa of Badajoz Taifa of Granada Taifa of Almería Taifa of Málaga
Commanders and leaders
Alfonso VI Álvar Fáñez Sancho Ramírez of Aragon	Yusuf ibn Tashfin Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad of Seville Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mutawakkil of Badajoz Abdallah ibn Buluggin of Granada Ahmad ben Muhammad of Almería Tamim of Málaga
Strength
2,500	Reportedly 3 times larger than Castilian army
Casualties and losses
All but 500	3,000

Almoravids

Yusuf ibn Tashfin

The Battle of Sagrajas (23 October 1086), also called Zalaca or Zallaqa (Arabic: معركة الزلاقة‎, translit. Maʿrakat az-Zallāqa‎), was a battle between the Almoravid army led by the Almoravid king Yusuf ibn Tashfin and a Christian army led by the Castilian King Alfonso VI. The battleground was later called az-Zallaqah (in English "slippery ground") because the warriors were slipping all over the ground due to the tremendous amount of blood shed that day, which gave rise to its name in Arabic.

After Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile captured Toledo in 1085 and invaded the taifa of Zaragoza, the emirs of the smaller taifa kingdoms of Islamic Iberia found that they could not resist him without external assistance. In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by them to fight against Alfonso VI. In that year, he replied to the call of three Andalusian leaders (Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad and others) and crossed the straits to Algeciras and moved to Seville. From there, accompanied by the emirs of Seville, Granada and Taifa of Málaga marched to Badajoz.

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