Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads

حصار الأذفونش قرطبة ودخولها في طاعة الموحدين

c. 1150 CE · c. 545 AH

Alfonso VII's siege of Cordoba (545) with forty thousand horse while the city starved; Abd al-Mu'min sent twelve thousand under whom the Frank withdrew, and the commander Abu al-Ghamr al-Sa'ib surrendered it to Yahya ibn Maymun — then the Almohad army entered al-Andalus twenty thousand strong under al-Muntati, and Granada's Maymun and Ibn Hamushk submitted ¹.

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Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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In 545 AH Alfonso, lord of Toledo and the land of the Jalaliqa, marched on Cordoba with forty thousand horsemen, besieged it, and its people were in severe dearth. Abd al-Mu'min sent an army of twelve thousand horsemen, and Alfonso withdrew when they drew near him. ²

After the siege

The commander Abu al-Ghamr al-Sa'ib handed Cordoba to Yahya ibn Maymun, commander of Abd al-Mu'min's army. Then the Franks went back to their lands. In the year after, the army of Abd al-Mu'min entered al-Andalus with twenty thousand men, and the lord of Granada and others entered the obedience of the Almohads. ²

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Occurred at: Cordoba

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Great Mosque of Córdoba· Library of the Córdoba Palace· The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos)· Conquest of Cordoba· The enemy's capture of Cordoba· The battle of al-Rabad· The Rabad fitna in Cordoba· The Berbers enter Cordoba by storm

Sources

Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 382
Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.382

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