Valencia - History [🇪🇸 Top Spanish Cities 2020]
Channel: The Storyteller
Date: 2020-05-13

Valencia - History
The city surrendered to the invading Moors  about 714 AD, and the cathedral of Saint Vincent was turned into a mosque. The Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, in command of a combined Christian and Moorish army, besieged the city beginning in 1092. After the siege ended in May 1094, he ruled the city and its surrounding territory as his own fiefdom for five years from 15 June 1094 to July 1099. The city remained in the hands of Christian troops until 1102, when the Almoravids retook the city and restored the Muslim religion. Alfonso VI of León and Castile drove them from the city, but was unable to hold it.


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