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| − | The '''Siege of Almadinat Almuqadasa''' ([[Spanish#Creeperian Standard Spanish|Creeperian Spanish]]: ''Asedio de Almadinat Almuqadasa'', [[Arabic|Deltinian Arabic]]: ''حصار المدينة المقدسة''; <small>transliterated as:</small> ''hisar almadinat almuqadasa'') was a siege | + | The '''Siege of Almadinat Almuqadasa''' ([[Spanish#Creeperian Standard Spanish|Creeperian Spanish]]: ''Asedio de Almadinat Almuqadasa'', [[Arabic|Deltinian Arabic]]: ''حصار المدينة المقدسة''; <small>transliterated as:</small> ''hisar almadinat almuqadasa'') was a major siege of the [[Creeperian Crusade]] which took place from September 1324 until June 1326. The siege, considered to be the most important of the Creeperian Crusade, was conducted by Creeperian King [[Miguel I of Creeperopolis|Miguel I]] against Deltinian Caliph [[Selim VI of Deltino|Selim VI]]. |
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| + | [[Almadinat Almuqadasa]] was the capital city of the [[Caliphate of Deltino]] and had never before come under a foreign attack in its history. Creeperian forces besieged the city for nearly two years, engaging in several battles with the Deltinians around the city in an attempt to further strengthen each other's position during the siege. After a Creeperian naval victory against the Deltinians in March 1326, the city was unable to supply itself from [[Lake San Salvador|Buhayrat Alrasul]] and food began to run out. Despite the calls for reinforcements throughout the siege, the reinforcements were either repelled by the Creeperans or refused to come to the caliph's assistance. | ||
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| + | On 13 June 1326, the Creeperans broke through the walls of the city and initiated a massacre of its people. The indiscriminate killings by the Creeperans killed an estimated 215,000 people, nearly the entire population of the city. During the massacre, Selim VI was executed, along with several other senior Deltinian administrators and military commanders. The city was set on fire and the Creeperans proceeded to destroy the city entirely, as it had been originally founded with the belief that the [[Islam]]ic Prophet [[Muhammad]] Himself had instructed the Deltinians to establish the city in 875AD. | ||
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| + | The destruction of the city brought an end to the centuries-long Caliphate of Deltino, fracturing the entity it into [[Deltinian Rump States|three rump states]]: the Emirates of [[Emirate of Abdan|Abdan]], [[Emirate of Helam|Helam]], and [[Emirate of Jakiz|Jakiz]], each proclaimed by mutinous military commanders of the caliphate. The fall of the city allowed the [[Creeperopolis|Kingdom of Creeperopolis]] to expand its territory south, covering much of central [[Sur]], and led to the domination of [[Creeperian Catholic Church|Creeperian Catholicism]] in the Sur. The Creeperian city of [[La'Victoria]] was established by Miguel I on 14 June 1326 on top of the ruins of Almadinat Almuqadasa, which remains mostly buried under La'Victoria today. That same day, Miguel I issued the ''[[Decree of La'Victoria]]'', which outlawed the practicing of [[Deltinian Islam]] within Creeperopolis and beginning the [[First Great Persecution of Deltinian Islam|First Great Persecution]]. | ||
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Revision as of 01:00, 22 January 2022
The Siege of Almadinat Almuqadasa (Creeperian Spanish: Asedio de Almadinat Almuqadasa, Deltinian Arabic: حصار المدينة المقدسة; transliterated as: hisar almadinat almuqadasa) was a major siege of the Creeperian Crusade which took place from September 1324 until June 1326. The siege, considered to be the most important of the Creeperian Crusade, was conducted by Creeperian King Miguel I against Deltinian Caliph Selim VI.
Almadinat Almuqadasa was the capital city of the Caliphate of Deltino and had never before come under a foreign attack in its history. Creeperian forces besieged the city for nearly two years, engaging in several battles with the Deltinians around the city in an attempt to further strengthen each other's position during the siege. After a Creeperian naval victory against the Deltinians in March 1326, the city was unable to supply itself from Buhayrat Alrasul and food began to run out. Despite the calls for reinforcements throughout the siege, the reinforcements were either repelled by the Creeperans or refused to come to the caliph's assistance.
On 13 June 1326, the Creeperans broke through the walls of the city and initiated a massacre of its people. The indiscriminate killings by the Creeperans killed an estimated 215,000 people, nearly the entire population of the city. During the massacre, Selim VI was executed, along with several other senior Deltinian administrators and military commanders. The city was set on fire and the Creeperans proceeded to destroy the city entirely, as it had been originally founded with the belief that the Islamic Prophet Muhammad Himself had instructed the Deltinians to establish the city in 875AD.
The destruction of the city brought an end to the centuries-long Caliphate of Deltino, fracturing the entity it into three rump states: the Emirates of Abdan, Helam, and Jakiz, each proclaimed by mutinous military commanders of the caliphate. The fall of the city allowed the Kingdom of Creeperopolis to expand its territory south, covering much of central Sur, and led to the domination of Creeperian Catholicism in the Sur. The Creeperian city of La'Victoria was established by Miguel I on 14 June 1326 on top of the ruins of Almadinat Almuqadasa, which remains mostly buried under La'Victoria today. That same day, Miguel I issued the Decree of La'Victoria, which outlawed the practicing of Deltinian Islam within Creeperopolis and beginning the First Great Persecution.
Background
The Caliphate of Deltino (734AD–1326) had difficulties establishing full control over Creeperopolis as the Creeperian inhabitants were overwhelmingly Creeperian Catholic and refused to be subjects of the Islamic caliphate following the Deltinian-Creeperian War fro 744AD to 745AD. The Creeperian inhabitants also wished for their kingdom to continue, free from Deltinian control. As soon as the Old Kingdom fell, the Deltinians established the Emirate of Rabadsun as a Creeperian client state with Rodolfo I as the Emir of the emirate to appease the Creeperans.
In 1231, Caliph Suleiman II died and was succeeded by his son, Suleiman III. Suleiman III reinstated laws revoked by his predecessors which allowed the practicing of any religion other than Deltinian Islam in 1231. He replaced the laws he revoked with the One-Religion Decree, a decree which mandated that only Deltinian Islam could be legally practiced. This was met by resistance the Creeperian Catholics of the Emirate of Rabadsun. Then Emir Alfawnasu III used the basis of the One-Religion Decree to declare independence for the Emirate of Rabadsun as a Catholic Creeperian kingdom, called the Kingdom of Creeperopolis, on 8 February 1231.
From 1231 to 1301, the Creeperans were lead by Alfonso I (1231–1264), Alfonso II (1264–1273), Salvador I (1273–1285), and Manuel I (1285–1301). With the death of Manuel I, his son, Miguel I became King of Creeperopolis and continued the crusade against the Deltinians. He immediately began to rally up an army to fight against the Deltinians who he said, "...[have] been a thorn in the side of the Holy Creeperian nation for too long." He began his campaign, known as the First War of Miguel I, in 1305 and pushed west into Deltinian territory. From 1305 to 1313, he continually pushed hard into northern Deltino. In 1317, Pope Juan XXII consecrated three archdiocese in the territory Miguel I had conquered: the Archdiocese of Salvador, which included the State of the Church, the Archdiocese of San Romero, and the Archdiocese of San Miguel.
Prelude
Miguel I launched a second war in 1321 with the end goal of advancing on Almadinat Almuqadasa, the capital of the Caliphate of Deltino, and effectively annex the entire caliphate. Miguel I pushed south from what is present-day La'Libertad del Norte into present-day La'Unión. He and his army pushed to Almadinat Almuqadasa, the capital city of Deltino. His army set camp outside the city walls of Almadinat Almuqadasa on 1 September 1324, beginning the siege.
Order of battle
Creeperans
- Miguel I – King of Creeperopolis
- Roberto Curtosé Cortéz – Caudillo of the Creeperian Army
- Carlos Martel Hernández – Commander of the Creeperian Navy
Deltinians
- Selim VI – Caliph of Deltino
- Iftikhar al-Dawla – Governor of Almadinat Almuqadasa
- Abdallah al-Mahdi – Commander of the Garrison of Almadinat Almuqadasa
- Ibn al-Hafiz – Commander of the Deltinian Navy
- Yusuf al-Dhahir – Commander of the Deltinian reinforcements
Siege
1324
Battle of Altal
The caliph of Deltino at the time, Selim VI, called for reinforcements from the southern parts of his caliphate to fight against the Creeperans and force them to flee. Deltinian reinforcements arrived at the neighboring village of Altal and lured the Creeperans to the village. The Creeperans, however, defeated the Deltinian reinforcements in the Battle of Altal and forced the reinforcements to flee, abandoning the garrison of Almadinat Almuqadasa.
First Battle of Buhayrat Alrasul
Although the city bordered Buhayrat Alrasul ("Lake of the Prophet", present-day Lake San Salvador) which he and the inhabitants of the city could escape from, Selim VI declared that a true Muslim does not retreat and he stated that he will defend the city with his life. He called on all inhabitants of the city to resist the Creeperans and to fight if needed.
The goal of the Creeperans was to wait outside the city walls and starve the inhabitants of the city into capitulation. The Creeperans also launched 4 ships to blockade the city's port on the lake to prevent food from entering by the lake. The plan was thwarted however when the Deltinian fleet of 15 ships destroyed the Creeperian ships in the First Battle of Buhayrat Alrasul on 1 October 1324. The Deltinian control of the lake ensured that the city would remain fed and would be able to continue the resist the siege indefinately.
1325
The Creeperans knew that they had to overpower the Deltinian ships and cut the Deltinian lake supply line in order to soften the city's defenses and starve the people into submission. Throughout 1325, the Creeperans constructed 45 ships in the Bay of Salvador and sailed them into the Bay of La'Libertad (called "Bay of Adolfosburg" today) and prepared to drag the ships across the continent to the shores of Buhayrat Alrasul. The ships were completed in April 1325 and sailed to La'Libertad. From April 1325 to January 1326, the Creeperans dragged all 45 ships to just north of Almadinat Almuqadasa where the ships were launched and ready to fight and destroy the Deltinian ships.
1326
Second Battle of Buhayrat Alrasul
On 13 March 1326, the 45 Creeperian ships attacked the 15 Deltinian ships defending the city. In a second naval battle, the Creeperans destroyed all 15 ships while only losing 8 themselves. With the destruction of the Deltinian ships protecting the trade, the Creeperian ships began a second naval blockade of Almadinat Almuqadasa and began starving the people of the city.
Malaria Outbreak
With the city slowly starving, the Creeperans wanted to quicken the submission of the city. Roberto Curtosé Cortéz ordered his soldiers to collect the bodies of local villagers who recently died to malaria. Afterwards, he had the corpses catapulted into the city to infect the people to quicken the submission. An estimated 10 percent of the population died to the Malaria outbreak caused by the corpses.
Miracle and massacre of Almadinat Almuqadasa
On 13 June 1326, after nearly two years of being sieged, the East gate of the city was opened by the Creeperans and the walls of the city gave way. The Creeperian army poured into the walled city and began massacring the population against the orders of Miguel I which was to issue a no quarter on only soldiers. Selim VI was captured by Creeperian soldiers, tortured, and burnt at the stake, effectively ending the Caliphate of Deltino. By the time the massacre of the city was over, an estimated 200,000 lay dead in the streets. The southern reaches of the Caliphate heard the news and three Emirates broke away and declared their independence from the Caliphate of Deltino: the Emirate of Jakiz, the Emirate of Helam, and the Emirate of Abdan. Their Emirs, Ohmad I, Mehmed I, and Orhan I, each declared jihad on Creeperopolis and Miguel I.
Aftermath
Renaming
Miguel I celebrated the destruction of the Caliphate of Deltino and declared that the Lord had intervened on behalf of the Creeperans. Pope Juan XXII also celebrated the news in Salvador. The flag of Creeperopolis was also altered to feature the Cross of Creeperopolis, the coat of arms of Creeperopolis, where the emblem of Deltino would have been. The fall of Almadinat Almuqadasa, renamed to La'Victoria, marked the end of the first phase of the Creeperian Crusade.
Decree of La'Victoria
On 14 June 1326, after the massacre and capture of the city, Miguel I issued the Decree of La'Victoria, outlawing the practicing of Deltinian Islam throughout all of Creeperopolis. The decree began the First Great Persecution of Deltinian Islam which would continue until 1565.
See also
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- Siege of Alshshati (1334–1335)
- Siege of Alssahil (1335–1336)
- Siege of Shata' Albahr (1343–1345)
