Major conflict722 CE

Battle of Covadonga

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Covadonga · Picos de Europa · Asturias

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Around 722, Pelagius of Asturias defeated an Umayyad force in the mountainous terrain at Covadonga in the Picos de Europa. Though small in scale, it secured a Christian foothold in northern Iberia and is traditionally regarded as the start of the Reconquista.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Asturias
Umayyad Caliphate

ON THE MAPUmayyad Caliphate

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Covadonga
Britannica: Battle of Covadonga
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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