Qualla: Battle of Morella https://qualla.com/battle-of-morella en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Morella https://qualla.com/battle-of-morella Battle of Morella: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-morella/ Spain remembers El Cid as the Christian champion of the Reconquista, the sword that drove the Moors from the land. The Battle of Morella tells an inconvenient truth. On an August day in the 1080s, somewhere southwest of Tortosa, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar led an army to a crushing victory - and he led it for a Muslim king, against a Christian one. His employer was Yusuf al-Mu'tamin, ruler of Zaragoza. His enemy was Sancho Ramírez, king of Aragon and Navarre. The real eleventh century, it turns out, was far messier than the legend that grew up afterward.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/z/battle-of-morella-wp/ezpz-battle-of-morella-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Morella: A Frontier of Shifting Sides https://qualla.com/battle-of-morella/ In the 1080s the border between Christian and Muslim Spain was not a clean line but a scramble of rival kingdoms, taifas, and mercenaries who sold their swords to whoever paid best. Cast out of Castile, El Cid took service with al-Mu'tamin of Zaragoza and rose to become one of hi...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/z/battle-of-morella-wp/ezpz-battle-of-morella-a-frontier-of-shifting-sides.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Morella: The Raid and the Reckoning https://qualla.com/battle-of-morella/ According to the Historia Roderici, El Cid and the king of Zaragoza set out from Monzón and spent five days ravaging Aragon, then struck south into the Taifa of Tortosa, laying waste the country around Morella and re-fortifying the castle at Olocau. Sancho, who had dodged a fight...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/p/z/battle-of-morella-wp/ezpz-battle-of-morella-two-thousand-captives.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Morella: A Legend Built Later https://qualla.com/battle-of-morella/ The writers who preserved Morella worked long after the fact, and some had agendas. Three centuries on, the Aragonese Crónica de San Juan de la Peña claimed that Sancho Ramírez had won his revenge, tracking El Cid down and beating him in 1088 - avenging both this defeat and an ol...

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