Battle of Guadalete

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By: David Asencio and Jose Sastre

BATTLE OF GUADALETE

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Legend

DATE AND PLACE

Consequences

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Basic info

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3.The Visigoths were defeated, also, this battle was one of the most important battles of the muslim conquest

2.The Umayyad army was led by two people, Tariq and Musa ibn Nusair.

1.The battle took place in 711 in the Iberian peninsula, close to the Guadalete river.

Basic info

A MUSLIM ARMY

It was led by Tariq, it was made up of arabs, berbers, etc.

The visigoth kingdomof toledo

The visigoth army was led by RodericAlso, the visgoth army's number of soldiers was bigger than the Umayyad army's

There were two teams

Teams

The battle was significant as the culmination of a series of Berber attacks and the beginning of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. Roderic was killed in the battle, along with many members of the Visigothic nobility, opening the way for the capture of the Visigothic capital of Toledo.

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The battle took place near the Guadalete river, some place it near Medina Sidonia, a municipality in Cádiz between the 19th and 26th of July 711, although the Mozarabic chronicle places the battle in 712, before the conquest of Toledo,

Date and place

Among the legends which have accrued to the history of the battle, the most prominent is that of Count Julian, who, in revenge for the impregnation of his daughter Florinda by Roderic while the young woman was being raised at the palace school, supposedly lent Tariq the necessary ships to launch an invasion.

Legend

The armies that met in battle on the day that decided the fate of the Gothic kingdom in Spain are not reliably described in the surviving records. Glick surmises that the Muslim army was predominantly Berber cavalry under Berber leadership. The Arabic sources traditionally give Roderic 100,000 troops, gathered during his return to the south after confronting the Basques

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