Battle of Cervera

This article is about the battle in 1000 in Castile. For the battle in 1811 in Catalonia, see Battle of Cervera (1811).
Battle of Cervera
Part of the Reconquista
Date29 July 1000
Location
Near Espinosa de Cervera, County of Castile, Kingdom of León (present-day Province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain)
41°54′N 3°28′W / 41.900°N 3.467°W / 41.900; -3.467
Result Córdoban victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Pamplona		 Caliphate of Córdoba
Commanders and leaders
Sancho García
García Gómez		 Almanzor
Casualties and losses
Heavy +700

The Battle of Cervera took place near Espinosa de Cervera on 29 July 1000[1] between the Christian troops of counts Sancho García of Castile and García Gómez of Saldaña and the Muslim Caliphate of Córdoba under the hajib Almanzor. The battle, "tremendous and difficult to describe", was a victory for Almanzor.[2] The battle is listed as the fifty-second of Almanzor's career in the Dikr bilad al-Andalus.

  1. ^ Determined from Monday, six days before the end of Saban, 390 AH, as recorded by Ibn al-Khatib, see Martínez Díez, 567.
  2. ^ The words are Ibn al-Khatib's, quoted in Martínez Díez, 566: "En fin, fue una batalla tremenda y difícil de describir."