Battle of Salado: Castile and Portugal halt Marinid invasion
October 1340
An Iberian Christian coalition crushed the last great African Muslim incursion across the Strait of Gibraltar. Castilian, Portuguese, and Aragonese knights smashed the army of Abu al-Hasan of Morocco on the Salado river in a decisive cavalry engagement. The Reconquista's southward grind would resume without further interruption from the Maghreb, and North Africa ceased to threaten Iberia militarily.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.