Pertempuran Sagrajas

Pertempuran Sagrajas
	Sebahagian daripada Reconquista
Tarikh	23 Oktober 1086
Lokasi	Utara Badajoz
Keputusan	Kemenangan muktamad Almoravid
Pihak yang terlibat
; Leon dan Castile; Aragon;	Almoravid ; Taifa Seville; Taifa Badajoz; Taifa Granada; Taifa Almería; Taifa Málaga;
Komandan dan pemimpin
Alfonso VI Álvar Fáñez; Sancho Ramírez dari Aragon;	Yusuf ibn Tashfin ; Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad dari Seville; Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mutawakkil dari Badajoz; Abdallah ibn Buluggin dari Granada; Ahmad ben Muhammad dari Almería; Tamim dari Málaga;
Kekuatan
2,500	Dilaporkan 3 kali lebih besar daripada tentera Castile
Kerugian dan korban
Hanya 500 orang terselamat	3,000

Pertempuran Sagrajas (23 Oktober 1086), juga dipanggil sebagai Zalaca atau Zallaqa (Arab: معركة الزلاقة, rumi: Maʿrakat az-Zallāqacode: ar is deprecated ), adalah sebuah pertempuran yang berlaku antara tentera Almoravid yang diketuai oleh raja Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin manakala tentera Kristian dipimpin oleh Raja Castile Alfonso VI. Kawasan pertempuran kemudian dikenali sebagai az-Zallaqah (bahasa Inggeris "tanah licin") di sebabkan para pahlawan yang sering kali tergelincir ke tanah kerana banyaknya darah yang tumpah pada hari itu, yang mana memberi namanya dalam bahasa Arab.

^ Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military history, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), 324.
^ Lewis, David Levering, God's Crucible, (New York: W & W Norton Inc, 2008), 364.
^ Bernard F. Reilly, The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain:1031-1157, (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), 88; " To the battle which took place on October 23, 1086, at Zalaca just north of Badajoz, Alfonso brought an army that numbered about 2,500 men...".
^ Lewis, God's Crucible, 361, 364;"Yusuf had the advantage of number--probably three times larger than those under Alfonso's command after the arrival of King 'Abd Allah of Granada.."
^ ^a ^b Ronald A. Messier, The Almoravids and the Meanings of Jihad, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 207.

[1] Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military history, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), 324.

[2] Lewis, David Levering, God's Crucible, (New York: W & W Norton Inc, 2008), 364.

[3] Bernard F. Reilly, The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain:1031-1157, (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), 88; " To the battle which took place on October 23, 1086, at Zalaca just north of Badajoz, Alfonso brought an army that numbered about 2,500 men...".

[4] Lewis, God's Crucible, 361, 364;"Yusuf had the advantage of number--probably three times larger than those under Alfonso's command after the arrival of King 'Abd Allah of Granada.."

[Messier207-5] Ronald A. Messier, The Almoravids and the Meanings of Jihad, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 207.

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