Siege of Artà
Part ofConquest of Majorca
Date March 1230 Location Artà,Mallorca Result Aragonese victory
Belligerents
Crown of Aragon Knights Templar	Almohad Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
James I of Aragon Nuño Sánchez Hugh of Forcalquier	Unknown
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

Thesiege of Artà was one of the battles of theConquest of Majorca, which took place in 1230.

After thesiege of Madîna Mayûrqa and the murder of the lastMuslimwali ofMajorca (Abu Yahya Muhammad), Abu Hafs ibn Sayrî fled to the mountains where he gathered 16,000 survivors of the massacre that followed the fall ofPalma.^[1] and the Majorcan insurgency was fortified in the castles of Alaró, Pollença, Santueri.^[2] as well as in theSerra de Tramuntana, where the Majorcans then appointed Xuiap de Xivert as the new chief and lord. Most of the knights and men returned toCatalonia, andJames I of Aragon had to reject single cavalcades with a reduced host on the western side of the Serra de Tramuntana^[3] and the Inca mountains because it was too dangerous.^[4]

InformedJames the Conqueror of a cave with 60 armedSaracens, on March 19, 1230,Nuño Sánchez andHugh of Forcalquier left with the king of the city towardsArtà establishing a camp at the foot of the coast, in the edge of a river. The attack initially consisted of fighting the door of the caves, from where the entrenched could attack the besiegers with stones. After setting fire to the barricades, surrender was offered, which took place on March 21.^[5]

The king returned toCatalonia in November1230. In1231, during the second expedition toMallorca and after the death of Abu Hafs ibn Sayrî and his six thousand men in February^[6] Xuiap de Xivert surrendered in the Serra de Tramuntana, but about 2,000 Mallorcan Saracens refused to withdraw under these conditions^[7] and took refuge in the castle ofPollença, which was besieged and where the Majorcan chief Abu-Ali Umar died.^[8]

• Jaume el Conqueridor.Llibre dels fets.
• Soldevila i Zubiburu, Ferran (2007).Les quatre grans cròniques: Llibre dels feits del rei En Jaume. Institut d'Estudis Catalans.ISBN 978-8472839014.

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• Sieges of the Reconquista
• Battles involving the Almohad Caliphate
• Battles involving Aragon
• Military history of the Balearic Islands
• Conflicts in 1230
• 13th century in al-Andalus
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• History of Mallorca

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