Christians crush Almohads at Las Navas de Tolosa
July 16, 1212
A combined army under Alfonso VIII of Castile broke the Almohad caliphate's grip on Iberia in a mountain pass of the Sierra Morena. The victory opened Andalusia to the Reconquista and ended any serious Muslim attempt to reunify Spain under North African rule. Within a generation the great cities of Cordoba, Seville, and Valencia would fall to Christian armies pushing south.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.