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The Kingdom of Asturias[3] was a kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the Visigothic nobleman Pelagius. It was the first Christian political entity established after the Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711. [4] In the Summer of 722, [5] Pelagius defeated an Umayyad army at the Battle of Covadonga, in what is retroactively ...
Chapter 2. KINGS of LEON 914-1037. INTRODUCTION. The precise family origin of the first kings of Asturias is open to debate. The Chronicon Albeldense states that Pelayo, recorded as first king of Asturias, was “nepos Ruderici regis Toletani”[1]. The Chronicon Sebastiani is less specific, stating that Pelayo was “ex semine regio” and ...
Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo; [1] c. 685 – 737) was a Hispano-Visigoth nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. [2] Pelagius is credited with initiating the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, and establishing the Asturian monarchy, making him the forefather of all the future Iberian monarchies, including the Kings of Castile, the Kings of ...
Mar 28, 2008 · the kingdom of the asturias, 718–910. the disintegration of the unitary Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula in the years 710–12, as a consequence of civil war and military defeat at the hands of the invading Arab armies, was both sudden and unforeseen. The actual course of events cannot easily be recovered, owing to the limitations ...
- Roger Collins
- 1995
The two Asturias (Asturias de Oviedo and Asturias de Santillana) and the Cantabrian region of Liébana were the site where the first Christian state of the Reconquest was forged. In Asturian territory are located the four capitals that the kingdom successively had (Cangas de Onís, Pravia, San Martín del Rey Aurelio and Oviedo) as well as the main samples of Asturian pre-Romanesque art.
Jan 12, 2024 · The Asturian kingdom became firmly established with the recognition of Alfonso II as king of Asturias by Charlemagne and the Pope. During his reign, the bones of St. James the Great were declared to have been found in Galicia, at Santiago de Compostela. Pilgrims from all over Europe opened a channel of communication between the isolated ...
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Oct 13, 2022 · The Reconquista is a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, spanning approximately 770 years, between the initial Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 710s and the fall of the Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic state on the peninsula, to expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492. By 718 the Muslims were in control of nearly the whole ...
