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The fall of Seville by treaty

سقوط إشبيلية صلحاً

c. 23 November 1248 CE · 5 Sha'ban 646 AH

Seville

Seville was besieged in 645 and surrendered to the Castilian on Monday 5 Sha'ban 646 after about seventeen months of investment 1. Ibn al-Dabbagh, shaykh of al-Andalus in grammar and the readings, died there within weeks — destroyed, the source says, by the church bell where the adhan had gone silent 2.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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al-Andalus & Europe
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124012501260 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Seville

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The Castilians besieged Seville in 645 AH. On Monday the fifth of Sha'ban 646 AH the king of Castile took it by treaty, after a siege of about a year and five months. 3

The date of the event in the Gregorian calendar is converted. 4

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The Almoravid seizure of Seville· Appearance of Majus ships in al-Andalus, 245· Majus landing at Seville, 230 AH· Abu Ali al-Shalubin· Ibn al-Dabbagh· ابن زهر الحفيد· Seville

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 476-477
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 244
  3. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.476-477
  4. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.477
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The Almoravid seizure of Seville

In 484 the Almoravids entered Seville; al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad charged them at the palace square, then yielded 'by my hand, not Amr's' — dragged to captivity and exiled to Aghmat, ending the sixty-year Abbadid kingdom, Andalus's most celebrated taifa.