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Battle of Alarcos ( July 18 , 1195 ), was a great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub Al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII ; also referred as the '''Disaster of Alarcos''' due to the magnitude of the Castilian defeat. The battle took place nearby Ciudad Real and has been considered as one of the bloodiest encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula . The outcome of the battle even threatened the stability of the kingdom of Castile , since, after it, the whole Muslim Al-Andalus became part of the Almohad empire. The subsequent counter-attack of the Castilians against the new African rulers culminates in the Battle Of Las Navas De Tolosa seventeen years later. Alfonso did not retreat to wait for reinforcements, and he decided to stay and fight. The Castilian army had no counterattack to this force and was annihilated. After the battle, the Almohad army pillaged the Spanish camp, as Alfonso and the commander Diego López de Haro escaped. |
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