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The Gibraltar crusade castile and the battle for the strait

Joseph O'Callaghan offers the first full and authoritative history of the epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries-a major, but often overlooked chapter in the Christian reconquest of Spain

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadephia, PA University of Pennsylvania Press 2011
Series:The Middle Ages series
Subjects:
Crusades > 13th-15th centuries
Castile (Spain) > History, Military
Gibraltar, Strait of > History, Military
Gibraltar, Strait of > Strategic aspects
Morocco > History, Military
Spain > History > 711-1516
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Call Number :DP 302.G39 O58 2011
Table of Contents:
  • Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar
  • Alfonso X's African crusade
  • The crusade against the Mudejars
  • The crusade against the Marinids
  • Sancho IV and the conquest of Tarifa
  • The crusades of Gibraltar, Almaería, and Algeciras
  • The early crusades of Alfonso XI's reign
  • The loss of Gibraltar and the crusade of Salado
  • The crusade of Algeciras and Gibraltar
  • Waging the crusade of Gibraltar
  • The aftermath : the Strait of Gibraltar to 1492

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