Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
	Part of the Reconquista
	; Portrayal of the battle by; Francisco de Paula Van Halen (1864)
Date	16 July 1212
Location	Near Santa Elena, Jaén, Andalusia, 38.28443°N 3.58286°W
Result	Spanish-Christian Coalition victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Castile; Crown of Aragon; Kingdom of Navarre; Order of Santiago; Order of Calatrava; Knights Templar; Knights Hospitaller; Knights of St. George; Narbonne; Portuguese crusaders; French crusaders; Leonese crusaders; Occitanian crusaders; German and Italian crusaders;	Almohad Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
Centre: Alfonso VIII of Castile; Vanguard: Diego López II de Haro; Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (Archbishop of Toledo); Right wing: Sancho VII of Navarre; Left wing: Peter II of Aragon;	Muhammad al-Nasir
Strength
12,000–14,000	22,000–30,000
Casualties and losses
~2,000	Very high ~20,000

The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, known in Islamic history as the Battle of Al-Uqab (Arabic: معركة العقاب), took place on 16 July 1212 and was an important turning point in the Reconquista and the medieval history of Spain. The Christian forces of King Alfonso VIII of Castile, were joined by the armies of his rivals, Sancho VII of Navarre and Peter II of Aragon, in battle against the Almohad Muslim rulers of the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. The caliph al-Nasir (Miramamolín in the Spanish chronicles) led the Almohad army, made up of people from all over the Almohad Caliphate.

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