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Aragonese Reconquista Expansion

Type Event Region Iberian Peninsula Time 1120–1129

In the 1120s Alfonso I of Aragon pushed east after taking Zaragoza in 1118, capturing Calatayud and Daroca and using charter settlement and military …

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  1. 1120Calatayud · AragonFollowing the fall of Zaragoza in 1118, Alfonso I took Calatayud and Daroca in 1120 through victory at the Battle of Cutanda, gaining control of the Jalón and Jiloca river basins and opening a strategic corridor toward Levante.
  2. 1120–1122Soria · CastileAlfonso encouraged Christian settlers to occupy the highlands of the upper Ebro to consolidate the new territories, gaining control of Soria and its surroundings around 1120 while continuing to take towns such as Borja, extending the northern edge of Aragonese power.
  3. 1122–1129Daroca · AragonTo settle his new subjects, Alfonso issued charters for Belchite (1119), Calatayud (c. 1330), and Daroca (1129), and established military religious orders at frontier posts such as Monreal del Campo to maintain Muslim frontier defense on a war-economy footing.

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