Almoravids capture Ceuta
1083
Yusuf ibn Tashfin took the North African port city of Ceuta from its local ruler, giving the Almoravid empire control of the southern coast of the Strait of Gibraltar. It was the final step before the direct involvement in Muslim Spain that would follow at the great battle of Sagrajas.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.