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The battle of Almenara

Almenara, La Plana Baixa, Castellón

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The battle of Almenara

Historical milestone · Almenara, La Plana Baixa, Castellón

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The viceroy's army, led by the Duke of Segorbe, defeated some six thousand agermanats from Valencia and Morvedre in 1521; with more than two thousand casualties, the revolt definitively lost the north of the kingdom. The battle, also called the Battle of Morvedre, was fought on 18 July in the partida of Montíber, near the present-day national road 340: the royalist camp was at Almenara and that of the agermanats at Sagunto. The Revolt of the Germanies had begun years earlier out of guild tensions against the Valencian urban oligarchy, and had in Joan Llorenç its ideologue and founder, under whose impetus the guilds went so far as to form a council of thirteen syndics to govern the city of Valencia.

18 de julio de 1521

Photo: Joanbanjo (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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