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Battle of Alcazarquivir

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	Informat.io on Battle Of Alcazarquivir
		The Battle of Alcácer Quibir (variant spellings are legion: Alcácer-Quivir, Al Quasr al-kibr, Alcazarquivir, Alcassar and so on, meaning grand palace in Arabic), also known as Battle of Three Kings, was a major battle fought in Morocco, near the modern town of Ksar-el-Kebir between Tangier and Fez, on 4 August 1578.
		The Emir, who was gravely ill, had meanwhile collected a large army — sources put it at 100,000 men — and the two armies approached each other near Alcazarquivir, camping on opposite sides of a river.
		Athough he had obvious superiority in numbers the Emir again attempted to negotiate a peace, but without success.
	www.informat.io /?title=battle-of-alcazarquivir (1161 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Conquistadors in Africa
		The Portuguese king, Sebastian, was killed in battle and nearly all of his 80,000 man army was killed or captured and sold into slavery.
		A defeat in Morocco for the Portuguese wouldn't necessarily be fatal to Spanish colonial aspirations in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially given the relatively large Spanish fleet existing before the Armada debacle.
		You are probably right, but Sebastian's defeat at Alcazarquivir put a check on Portuguese colonization in the world as a whole, at least for a few decades.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3869 (1719 words)

	Ute Körner Literary Agent
		A historical adventure story revolving around the figure of the Portuguese king Sebastian and the disastrous Battle of Alcazarquivir.
		Commanding a strong body of Portuguese soldiers and mercenaries, he clashed with the Berbers at the battle of Alcazarquivir, in which he was roundly defeated.
		The king, left wounded, was found by Anibal Anibaldi, a rogue who looked just like Sebastian and to whom the king gave his royal ring.
	www.uklitag.com /site/book_detail_new.php?id=636 (268 words)

	--A Brief History of Morocco-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They, too, were thwarted, leaving Morocco virtually the only Arab country never to experience Ottoman rule.
		In 1578, three kings fought and died near Ksar el-Kebir (Alcazarquivir), including the Portuguese monarch Sebastian.
		This decisive battle, claimed as a Moroccan victory, put an end to European incursions onto Moroccan soil for three centuries.
	www.coloradoeats.com /casablanca/history.html (824 words)

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		By the 15th century both the Spanish and Portuguese had begun to encroach on Moroccan territory and the Portuguese had taken the coastal cities of Agadir, Ceuta, and Tangier.
		Jihad (holy Islamic war) was declared against the invaders, culminating in the Battle of Alcazarquivir (1578), in which the Portuguese king SEBASTIAN was killed.
		Pirates from Morocco and the other BARBARY STATES along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa continued to antagonize the European nations by raiding their ships.
	www.gateway-africa.com /countries/marocco.html (739 words)

	Today in History - January 31 - www.ezboard.com
		In 1557, he became regent to his grandnephew Sebastian until the king achieved his majority in 1568.
		But when Sebastian was killed at Alcazarquivir ten years later, the crown went to the 66-year-old celibate Henry.
		King Henry could not decide upon a successor, and he eventually named five governers to serve as regents upon his death.
	p090.ezboard.com /fjpspanzersfrm41.showMessage?topicID=285.topic (1433 words)

	FERNANDO DE HERRERA AND THE SEVILLIAN SCHOOL
		After the above mentioned edition of Annotations to Garcilaso de la Vega, in which he plants a few of his own ideas about poetry, he published his book A Few Works by Fernando de Herrera (1582), in which he offers a sample of his works, which split from the Petrachan lyric started by Garcilaso.
		Although part of his works have been lost, we still have his epic poems in which he writes of the fight at Alcazarquivir or the victory at Lepanto.
		Others have been recuperated in an earlier edition by Francisco Pacheco, although not always well kept.
	www.spanisharts.com /books/literature/i_herrera.htm (811 words)

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