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The Almohads would adopt the white flag against Almoravid authority, [175] while major anti-Almohad rebellions unleashed by the Banu Ghaniya in the Maghreb and Hudids in Al-Andalus would confirm their affiliation to the Abbasids in the same manner as the early Almoravid movement did. [176] [177]
The Almoravids first went to Toledo; they destroyed the castles of San Servando and Aceca. They then invested in Toledo. The city was defended Álvar Fáñez. The siege has lasted for seven days, during which the Castilians managed to repel the Almoravids attempts to capture the city, suffering heavy losses and many siege equipments in 1110.
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Muslim accounts state that the Castilian force had a force of 20,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, while Christian sources state that it only consisted of 2,500 knights. The Almoravid general, realizing what was happening, dispatched a force of 10,000 men led by Ibrahim bin Ishaq Al-Lamtuni, which the Christian chronicles state had 15,000 men.
The Almoravids established themselves at Algeciras, and after allying with the taifas of Seville, Granada, and Almeria (al-Mu'tamid led the al-Andalusan forces) they defeated the Christians at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, and occupied the other Muslim taifas, including Seville itself in 1091.
The Almoravids made a ruse, attempting to steal cattle in the countryside and flee to provoke the Castilians. The governor of Toledo, Gutierre Armíldez, who was at Alamin Castle, set out with a force of 40 knights to pursue them. The Almoravids emerged from their positions and ambushed the Castilians. A fierce battle ensued.
Nevertheless, the Almoravids and the Almohads did not help the taifa emirs but rather annexed their lands to their own North African empires. [ 11 ] In the 1100s, the remnants of the taifa dynasties in al-Andalus would join forces with Christian powers as a last attempt to shift momentum back in their favor against the Almoravids.
The Almoravid realm at its greatest extent, c. 1120. During the taifa period, the Almoravid empire developed in northwest Africa, whose core was formed by the Lamtuna branch of the Sanhaja Berber. [124]: 99 In the mid-11th century, they allied with the Guddala and Massufa Berber. At that time, the Almoravid leader Yahya ibn Ibrahim went on a hajj.