Battle of the Strait

Battle of the Strait (Spanish: Batalla del Estrecho) was a military conflict contesting the ports in the Straits of Gibraltar taking place in the late thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth. The conflict involves principally the Spanish Muslim Emirate of Granada, the Spanish Christian Crown of Castile and the North African Muslim Marinid state. The ports' strategic value came from their position linking Spain and North Africa, thus connecting Muslims in Spain with the rest of the Islamic world.[1][2] The campaign had mixed results. Castile gained Tarifa permanently, and managed to take Gibraltar and Algeciras but both would revert to Muslim rule. Castile also failed to gain any port in the African side of the strait.[3]

Political situation of the Strait of Gibraltar (1274-1350)
  • 1274 to 1306.
  • 1306 to 1310.
  • 1310 to 1329.
  • 1329 to 1350.
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References

Footnotes
  1. O'Callaghan 2011, p. 3.
  2. Carrasco Manchado 2009, p. 401.
  3. O'Callaghan 2011, pp. 265.

Bibliography
  • Carrasco Manchado, Ana I. (2009). "Al-Andalus Nazarí". Al-Andalus. Historia de España VI (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones Istmo. pp. 391–485. ISBN 978-84-7090-431-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (2011). The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812204636.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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