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Battle of Alcacer Quibir (Battle of the Three Kings)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Ksar el-Kebir

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Catastrophic Portuguese defeat in which King Sebastian I died, triggering the Iberian Union and consolidating Saadi power.

Belligerents3

Kingdom of Portugal
Saadi Sultanate
Ottoman Empire

ON THE MAPKingdom of PortugalOttoman Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Alcacer Quibir (Battle of the Three Kings) (1578). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-alcacer-quibir-battle-of-the-three-kings · Sources & methodology