Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa and beginning of the end of the Islamic rule in Andalusia

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Ain Shams University - Faculty Of Girls -The New Valley Governorate - Dakhla

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The historical battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 609 AH / 1212 CE constituted a major decline in the authority of the Muslims in Andalusia, but what surprises any observer of history is that this battle separates it from the battle of Alarcos battle seventeen years, this battle which the Almohads won a great victory, this which prompted us to question this great change between the Iberian power And the Almohad power in a short period, which had a great influence in the victory of the Iberians over the Almohads, and continued the fall of the Andalusian Islamic cities in their hands, This great change in the Iberian power is represented in the exploitation of the Christian king Alfonso VIII of Castile the truce that he concluded with the Almohad king Al-Nasir, and the preoccupation of Al-Nasir in the fight against the Banu Ghaniyya to do several things, including: Eliminating the discord between the Spanish Christian kingdoms (Navarra - Aragon), which was the reason for their defeat in the Battle of the Alarcos, asking for help from the Pope of Rome, after which the crusaders began to descend upon Spain as like the locust, to become a crusade like the Crusades in Egypt and the Al-Sham.

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