Draft:Siege of Madrid (1197)

Siege of Madrid
	Part of Reconquista and Almohad campaign against Castille (1196-1197)
Date	Spring of 1197
Location	Madrid
Result	Almohad victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Castile	Almohad Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
Diego López de Haro	Yaqub al-Mansur
Casualties and losses
The entire city destroyed.	Unknown

Review waiting, please be patient.

This may take 3 months or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 1,946 pending submissions waiting for review.

If the submission is accepted, then this page will be moved into the article space.
If the submission is declined, then the reason will be posted here.
In the meantime, you can continue to improve this submission by editing normally.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Reviewer tools

Instructions · What links here · Siege of Madrid (1197) (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Bing, Wikipedia) · Submitted 3 days ago by Yaqub al-Mansur (talk: D · +) · Last edited 4 seconds ago by Yaqub al-Mansur

The Siege of Madrid occured in the spring of 1197 during the Almohad campaign against Castille in the Iberian Peninsula.^[1] The city of Madrid was besieged and ravaged before being captured by the Almohad forces.^[2]^[3]

Background

After the decisive victory at Alarcos, the defeat of the Castilian forces at Alarcos opened the way for further Almohad incursions. The Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur launched a campaign against the Kingdom of Castille, and targeted Madrid as part of his campaign.^[4]

The siege

In the spring of 1197, the Almohads returned to raid the already devastated fields of Talavera and Maqueda, before laying siege to Madrid which was then defended by Diego López de Haro.^[5]^[6] The Almohads managed to ravage Madrid before capturing it right after.^[7]^[8]^[9]

The Almohads pillaged they're way back to Cordoba, putting end to their successful campaign.

References

^ Buresi, Pascal (2004). La frontière entre chrétienté et Islam dans la pénisule Ibérique (in French). Publibook.
^ Fletcher, Richard (2006). Moorish Spain. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24840-3.
^ Rivero, Isabel (1982). Compendio de historia medieval española (in Spanish). Istmo. ISBN 978-84-7090-125-6.
^ Ardant, Martial (1851). Histoire d'Espagne, racontée à la jeunesse chrétienne (in French). Université de Harvard.
^ Buresi, Pascal (2004). La frontière entre chrétienté et Islam dans la pénisule Ibérique (in French). Publibook.
^ M.Flood, Timothy (2018). Rulers and Realms in Medieval Iberia, 711-1492. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4766-7471-1.
^ Fletcher, Richard (2006). Moorish Spain. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24840-3.
^ Rivero, Isabel (1982). Compendio de historia medieval española (in Spanish). Istmo. ISBN 978-84-7090-125-6.
^ Hasan, Masudul (1998). History of Islam: Classical period, 571-1258 C.E. Islamic Publications.

[1] Buresi, Pascal (2004). La frontière entre chrétienté et Islam dans la pénisule Ibérique (in French). Publibook.

[2] Fletcher, Richard (2006). Moorish Spain. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24840-3.

[3] Rivero, Isabel (1982). Compendio de historia medieval española (in Spanish). Istmo. ISBN 978-84-7090-125-6.

[4] Ardant, Martial (1851). Histoire d'Espagne, racontée à la jeunesse chrétienne (in French). Université de Harvard.

[5] Buresi, Pascal (2004). La frontière entre chrétienté et Islam dans la pénisule Ibérique (in French). Publibook.

[6] M.Flood, Timothy (2018). Rulers and Realms in Medieval Iberia, 711-1492. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4766-7471-1.

[7] Fletcher, Richard (2006). Moorish Spain. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24840-3.

[8] Rivero, Isabel (1982). Compendio de historia medieval española (in Spanish). Istmo. ISBN 978-84-7090-125-6.

[9] Hasan, Masudul (1998). History of Islam: Classical period, 571-1258 C.E. Islamic Publications.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]