Page "Battle of Guadalete" Paragraph 11

The date of the battle is traditionally 711, though this is not the date given by the Chronicle of 754.

The Chronicle dates it to 712 and places it before the conquest of Toledo, which it attributes to Mūsā in 711.

If this discrepancy is solved by preferring the chronicler's order to his dating, then the battle occurred in 712 and the fall of Toledo later that same year.

Later Arabic accounts give an exact date of 25 or 26 July.

A more rough dating is between 19 and 23 July.

According to David Levering Lewis, the battle took place on 19 July 711.

Preceding the battle was an entire week of inconclusive skirmishes near the lake La Janda, in the plain stretching from the Río Barbate to the Río Guadalete.