Ferdinand III captures Seville
1248
After a seventeen-month siege that saw Castilian ships break the pontoon bridge across the Guadalquivir, the great Almohad city surrendered. Ferdinand entered in triumph, converted the mosque into a cathedral, and ordered the Giralda tower kept as his bell tower. Seville's fall left only Granada as the last Muslim kingdom in Iberia, a rump state that would survive another two and a half centuries.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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