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Updated: April 30, 2025
The King of Saragossa, Abu-Giafar, had hoped that the defeat of Zalaca would prevent the Christians from attacking him; but that of his allies, the Mahometan princes, in the neighborhood, and the taking of Huesca by the King of Navarre, convinced him how fallacious was his fancied security.
Before long, however, Alfonso turned out his brothers and also extended his borders even to the Tagus by taking Toledo in 1085. But his successes roused the Moslem powers to fresh fanaticism. A new and stricter dynasty, the Almoravides, arose in Africa and crossing the straits inflicted a crushing defeat on the Christians at Zalaca.
At the head of all the forces he could muster he advanced toward Andalusia, and encountered Yussef on the plains of Zalaca, between Badajoz and Merida. As the latter was a strict observer of the outward forms of his religion, he summoned the Christian King by letter to embrace the faith of the Prophet or consent to pay an annual tribute or prepare for immediate battle.
The reduction of several towns, from Tolosa to Baeza, immediately followed this glorious victory a victory in which Don Alfonso nobly redeemed his failure in the field of Zalaca and which, in its immediate consequences, involved the ruin of the Mahometan empire in Spain.
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