Almoravid conquest of Valencia

1102

The Almoravids finally took Valencia after the Christians abandoned it, torching much of the city as they left. The reversal ended a brief Castilian experiment in ruling a Levantine Mediterranean port and pushed the Reconquista frontier back to the Ebro for a generation. The city's great mosque was restored and its population, largely Muslim even under Christian rule, welcomed the Almoravid garrison with open gates.