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Battle of Cutanda

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Battle of Cutanda

Historical milestone · Calamocha, Jiloca, Teruel

In June 1120, while besieging Calatayud, Alfonso I the Battler learned that an Almoravid army recruited since the previous winter in Molina de Aragón, Lérida, Murcia, Granada, Valencia and Seville, commanded by Ibrahim ibn Yusuf, was marching towards Zaragoza in an attempt to retake it. The Aragonese king, supported by William IX of Aquitaine, went out to meet it at Cutanda, near Calamocha, where the Muslims had arrived by heading up the Jiloca valley. The Christian victory, decisive and with numerous Almoravid losses, secured the Ebro valley and allowed Alfonso I to seize Calatayud and Daroca. The episode passed into popular sayings in the expression «peor fue la de Cutanda», used to play down misfortunes.

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