Berber forces under Sulayman ibn al-Hakam crush Umayyad Caliph Muhammad II at the Battle of Qantish, shattering his army and ending his reign. This decisive defeat triggers a decade-long civil war that fractures the Caliphate of Córdoba, ultimately dissolving its centralized power and plunging Al-Andalus into fragmentation.
November 5, 1009
1017 years ago
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