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| Battle of Covadonga | |||||||||
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| Part of the Reconquista | |||||||||
.jpg) King Don Pelayo in Covadonga | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Kingdom of Asturias | Umayyad Caliphate | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Pelagius of Asturias |
Munuza † Alqama † | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 300 (according to Ahmad al-Maqqari) | 187,000 (exaggerated)[2][3] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 290 killed | 1,104 killed (according to Codex Vigilanus)[4] | ||||||||
The Battle of Covadonga took place in 722 between the army of Pelagius of Asturias and the army of commanders Alqama and Munuza, as part of the Umayyad Caliphate.[5][6][1] Fought near Covadonga, in the Picos de Europa, it resulted in a victory for the Christian forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally regarded as the foundational event of the Kingdom of Asturias and thus the initial point of the Christian Reconquista ("reconquest") of Iberia after the Umayyad conquest of 711.[7]
- ^ a b Amy G. Remensnyder, La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds, (Oxford University Press, 2014), 23.
- ^ Hall, Linda B. (2004). Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas. University of Texas Press. p. 25.
- ^ Kennedy, Hugh (2008). The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. Grand Central Publishing. p. 318.
- ^ Crónica Albeldense. Madrid, RAH, Colection of Salazar y Castro
- ^ Sánchez-Albornoz, Claudio. "The kingdom of Asturias. Origins of the Spanish nation". Collection: Biblioteca Histórica Asturiana. Silverio Cañada, Gijón, 1989
- ^ Ruiz de la Peña, Ignacio. "Battle of Covadonga", at "la Gran Enciclopedia Asturiana, Volume 5, pp. 167–172. Publisher Silverio Cañada,Gijón, 1981.
- ^ Ring, Trudy, Robert M. Salkin and Sharon La Boda, International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe, (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1995), 170.