El Cid captures Valencia
1094
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Castilian mercenary captain banished by Alfonso VI and serving sometimes Christian and sometimes Muslim masters, took the Mediterranean city after a long siege and ruled it as an independent prince. His legend, sung and rewritten on both sides of the faith divide, is medieval Iberia's defining saga.
In context
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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