Qualla: Sack of Torreblanca https://qualla.com/sack-of-torreblanca en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Sack of Torreblanca https://qualla.com/sack-of-torreblanca Sack of Torreblanca: Introduction https://qualla.com/sack-of-torreblanca/ In the summer of 1397, raiders came out of the sea and fell on Torreblanca, a small village on the Valencian coast. When they left, 108 of its people were gone, taken captive to be sold or ransomed across the Mediterranean, and the parish church had been stripped. The raiders had also carried off something that would matter more to the powerful than the lives of a hundred villagers: a silver ciborium holding the consecrated hosts. That theft turned a routine coastal raid into a religious outrage, and set in motion a war of revenge that reached all the way to North Africa.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/0/h/sack-of-torreblanca-wp/sp0h-sack-of-torreblanca-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sack of Torreblanca: A Village on an Open Coast https://qualla.com/sack-of-torreblanca/ Torreblanca belonged to the Kingdom of Valencia, and like every settlement on this shore it lived within reach of the sea's dangers. For the fishing and farming families strung along this coast, a strange sail on the horizon could mean the loss of everything in a single morning, ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/0/h/sack-of-torreblanca-wp/sp0h-sack-of-torreblanca-a-crusade-answers.mp3 0:06 4 full Sack of Torreblanca: Who Paid the Price https://qualla.com/sack-of-torreblanca/ There is a bitter irony in where the blow finally landed. The raiders had been Hafsid corsairs, yet it was the neighbouring Kingdom of Tlemcen, and towns like Dellys, that bore the brunt of the vengeance. On both shores of the sea, ordinary people paid for the ambitions and griev...

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