Sack of Torreblanca
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| Sack of Torreblanca | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Hafsid dynasty | Kingdom of Valencia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Fusta | Unknown | ||||||
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| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 108 captured[1] | ||||||
The Sack of Torreblanca was a naval raid carried out by Hafsid forces under the command of a corsair named Fusta against the village of Torreblanca, which belonged to the Kingdom of Valencia.
At the end of the reign of Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II, tensions arose between Sicily and the Hafsid Sultanate, then ruled in Sicily by Martin the Elder. Additionally, a new monarch ascended to the throne of the Kingdom of Valencia in May 1397. These developments prompted corsairs from Ifriqiya to launch raids against the southern coasts of what is now Spain.[1]
