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==== First campaigns with Ghalib ==== The first eight campaigns were carried out with the support of his father-in-law Ghalib.{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=66}} Among them were three in the Salamanca lands (two in 977 and one in 978), another against [[Cuéllar]] (the same year), one against Pamplona and Barcelona (the long summer campaign of 978), one against Zamora (or maybe Ledesma, according to other authors, in the spring of 979) and one against Sepúlveda (in the summer of 979, which he could not take, although he razed its surroundings).{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|pp=67–73}} The eighth was one in which he accompanied to Algeciras the forces destined to Maghreb, between September 979 and early 980.{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=73}} The ninth campaign, in the spring of 980, was that during which the rupture between Almanzor and Ghalib took place and is known as "the one of betrayal" for Ghalib's surprise assault on Almanzor's son-in-law at Atienza.{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=74}} The confrontation followed a short raid through Castilla.{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=74}} The next four offensives (one in the fall of 980, two in the spring{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=77}} of the following year and one in the summer{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=78}}) took place during the conflict between the two rivals.{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=75}} During the last campaign – that of Almanzor's victory over Ghalib, he regained control of the fortresses of Atienza and [[Calatayud]], held by partisans of his rival.{{Sfn|Castellanos Gómez|2002|p=79}}
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