| Siege of Toledo (1085) | |||||||||
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| Part of Reconquista | |||||||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Alfonso_VI_reconquista_Toledo.JPG) The Siege of Toledo as depicted in azulejos at the Plaza de España in Seville, built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Taifa of Toledo |
 Kingdom of Castile | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Yahya al-Qadir |
Alfonso VI | ||||||||
The siege of Toledo (Arabic: سقوط طليطلة, lit. 'Fall of Ṭulayṭula') was Alfonso VI of León and Castile's siege and conquest of Toledo, capital of the Taifa of Toledo, from Yahya al-Qadir of the Dhulnunid dynasty in Muharram 478 / May 1085.[1][2] The Castilian conquest of the former Visigothic capital was achieved through a strategy of attrition warfare developed by Castile in the preceding years.[3] As it represented a shift in power on the Iberian peninsula, the siege of Toledo was the most significant event in the taifa period.[3]
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- ^ Corfis, Ivy A.; Wolfe, Michael (1999). The Medieval City Under Siege. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85115-756-6.
- ^ a b "al-Andalus, political history". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_30661. Retrieved 2022-11-01.