For other uses of this term, see Journey of the Pit.
It is called Day of Zamora (also known as the Journey of the Moat of Zamora) to a battle that took place in the city of Zamora (Spain) in July 901. The confrontation occurs between the Christian troops of Alfonso III and the Muslim women of Ahmed-ben-Moavia (also called Abul Kassin). The assailant troops of Ahmed-ben-Moavia surround the city and an assault takes place before the walls of Zamora. The battle lasts four days, with success of the Christian troops. The number of dead and wounded on both sides was so great that in the Arabic chronicles of the time is called the battle as Zamora Day After the victory is narrated how the heads of the Muslim caudillos were cut and hung in the battlements of the defensive walls of the city, being at present the possible testimonies in the south façade of the cathedral and Balborraz street (named after having in the past a Balborraz Gate, whose name comes from Arabic bab al ras , where Bab means door and Ras head). Among the Hispano-Muslim narrators of this battle is Ibn Hayyan from the narrations of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Razi. The attack on Zamora is caused by the Shia movement, under the authority of the "prophet" Ibn al-Quitt.
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