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Autonomous community of Asturias
- Asturians (Asturian: asturianos) are a Romance ethnic group native to the autonomous community of Asturias, in the North-West of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Asturians were involved in the development of the New World and their descendants in present-day Latin America, esp. in Argentina and Uruguay; and other countries where Asturians moved to during the rule of the Spanish Empire.
After Pelayo's victory over the Moorish detachment at the Battle of Covadonga, a small territorial independent entity was established in the Asturian mountains that was the origin of the kingdom of Asturias. Pelayo's leadership was not comparable to that of the Visigothic kings.
History. Roman thermae in Gijón. Processional Cross, ca. 1150–75, it comes from a 12th-century church fifty miles east of Oviedo. Metropolitan Museum of Art. [7] Asturias was inhabited first by Homo erectus, then by Neanderthals.
This state was founded in the north-western mountains of Spain by the Astures people of Iberia, shortly after the Umayyad Islamic invasion of Iberia. Asturias fronted the Bay of Biscay.
Asturian kings, presenting themselves as the heirs to the Visigothic monarchy that had ruled Spain prior to the Muslim conquest, capitalized on dissension within the Moorish ranks and expanded their holdings in the late 9th century.
The Kingdom of Asturias (Latin: Asturum Regnum; Asturian: Reinu d'Asturies) 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 718 or 722. [2] .
The Asturian kingdom had as its site the western and central territories of the Cantabrian Mountains, particularly the Picos de Europa and the central area of present-day Asturias, areas where the main political-military events took place during the first decades of the existence of the kingdom.
