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==== Spain ====
* The [[Almoravids]] lose their control of the [[Ebro]] valley:
** Pope [[Gelasius II]] grants the status of [[Crusade]] to the Christian effort in the Ebro Valley, attracting numerous [[Duchy of Vasconia|Gascon]], [[Occitania|Occitan]] and [[Normans|Norman]] knights.<ref name="possessing the land">{{cite book|last=Stalls|first=Clay|title=Possessing the land: Aragon's expansion into Islam's Ebro frontier under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134|year=1995|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-10367-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3YicOpi9esC|page=viii}}</ref> 
** [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Alfonso the Battler]] expels the [[Moors]] from [[Zaragoza]]. The Aragonese reconquer many of the valleys of the [[Jalón (river)|Jalón]] and the [[Jiloca (river)|Jiloca]].<ref>Gilbert Meynier (2010) ''L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)''. Paris: La Découverte; pp.86.</ref>
** The troops of [[Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona]], led by [[Archbishop of Tarragona|archbishop]] [[Oleguer Bonestruga]], capture [[Tarragona]] from the [[Moors]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=McGrank|first=Lawrence|title=Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55|journal=Journal of Medieval History|year=1981|volume=7|issue=1|pages=67–82|doi=10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1}}</ref>