Battle of Simancas

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The battle of Simancas (also: Battle of Simancas ) took place in 939 between the forces of the Christian king Ramiro II of León and the Muslim caliph Abd ar -Rahman III. of Córdoba held near the city of Simancas. The outcome of the battle was deciding which side hereinafter received dominion over the lands of the Duero.

Prehistory

In 934 Abd ar -Rahman fell into the Christian territories in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and gathered with the help of the Moorish governor of Zaragoza, Abu Yahya, a big army of Moorish warriors.

Battle

The Christian king Ramiro II led the counter-attack with an army consisting of own troops, those of the Castilian Count Fernán González and the Navarrese troops under García Sánchez I.

Christian and Moorish chronicles of a solar eclipse on the day of battle. The fighting lasted for several days and ended with a victory of the Christian army.

Swell

• Chalmeta Gendron, Pedro: Simancas y Alhándega. ( revista Hispania pags. 359-446 ). In 1976. ISSN 0018-2141.
• Ibn Hayyan. Muqtabis V, Crónica del Califa Abderrahman III al-Nasir entre los años y 912 942 y trad ed de M ª Jesús Viguera y Federico Corriente. Anubar, Zaragoza, 1981. ISBN 84-7013-185-0
• Martínez Díez, Gonzalo: El Condado de Castilla. Junta de Castilla y León, Valladolid, 2004. ISBN 84-9718-275-8
• Pérez de Urbel, Justo El Condado de Castilla. Los 300 años en que se Hizo Castilla. Editorial Fomento, Madrid 1974. ISBN 84-7301-005-1
• Rodríguez Fernández, Justiniano: Ramiro II, rey de León. La Olmeda, Burgos 1998. ISBN 84-89915-01-6

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• Battle of the Reconquista
• 939
• Valladolid