• army defeated the Vikings on either 11 or 17 November. Seville was retaken and the remnants of the Vikings fled Spain. After the raid, the Muslims raised...
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  • frightened the Viking raiders, so raiding parties no longer troubled the parts of Spain that were under the king's control. Viking raid on Seville Sack of Santiago...
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    the Vikings' longships were captured on the beach and burned. They then proceeded south, raiding Lisbon and Seville. This Viking raid on Seville seems...
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    Viking activity in the Iberian peninsula seems to have begun around the mid-ninth century as an extension of Viking raids on and establishment of bases...
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    Gotland. During and after the Viking raid on Seville in 844 CE the Muslim chroniclers of al-Andalus referred to the Vikings as Magians (Arabic: al-Majus...
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  • that arose from the conflation of the Byzantine embassy and the Viking raid on Seville in 844. Ibn Diḥya quotes extensively from al-Ghazāl's poems. One...
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    September 25–November 11 or 17 – Viking raid on Seville (844): Vikings arrive in Seville by the Guadalquivir, taking the city on October 1 or 3 and pillaging...
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  • Toliata, south of Seville, whose people were unable to withstand, and many of them were killed. As a result, they entered the city of Seville, where they rampaged...
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    the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal...
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  • September 25–November 11 or 17 – Viking raid on Seville (844): Vikings arrive in Seville by the Guadalquivir, taking the city on October 1 or 3 and pillaging...
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    incendiary 'ship-killing' weapons usage by the Muslims are come from the Viking raid on Seville, as the Emirate ships used an incendiary liquid thrown by catapults...
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    Seville has been one of the most important cities in the Iberian Peninsula since ancient times; the first settlers of the site have been identified with...
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  • party under Francisco Franco from 1937 onward, a merger of the other factions on the Nationalist side. 1936–1937, then merged into FET y de las JONS Orosius...
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    the Almohad raid to Evora in Portugal in 1181-82, 400 women were taken captives and put for sale in the slave market of Seville. These raiding expeditions...
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    Elvira, fresh raids of the Northmen were repelled from the coast of Galicia. In 968, Gunrod of Norway, the Viking leader, established himself on Galician soil...
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    the Muslims under Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi at Albelda. Viking raiders burn the mosques of Seville and Algeciras in al-Andalus (modern Spain). The University...
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  • bin Nusayr in power. 829 – Mosque built. 844 – City raided by Vikings 1023 – Abbadid Taifa of Seville established. 1147 - Almohades take power. 1181 – Alcázar...
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    In 844, Abd ar-Rahman repulsed an assault by Vikings who had disembarked in Cádiz, conquered Seville (with the exception of its citadel) and attacked...
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    heathens". In modern scholarship, Vikings is a common term for attacking Norsemen, especially in connection with raids and monastic plundering by Norsemen...
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  • the region of Viseu. 844 – Vikings raid the Galician estuaries, are defeated by Ramiro I, attack Lisbon, and sack Seville, but are shortly afterwards...
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  • Rudesind rallies the local forces and kills the Viking King Gundered. 971 – Another minor Viking raid in Galicia. 976 – Caliph Al-Hakam II dies, and Al-Mansur...
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    Almanzor captured Coimbra, Seia, Viseu and Lamego. Subsequently, Viking and Norman raids in the region of Minho and Galicia at the beginning of the 11th...
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    of the Vikings' longships were captured on the beach and burned. A few months later, another fleet took Seville. The Vikings found in Seville a population...
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    heregeld was abolished. Several of its members are commemorated on runestones, such as the Viking Runestones and the England Runestones. One example is the...
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    Battle of Roncevaux Pass 782: Bloody Verdict of Verden 793: Viking raid on Lindisfarne; Viking Age begins 796–804: Alcuin initiates the Carolingian Renaissance[dubious...
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    enough in Hispalis [Seville] — Julius Caesar. De Bellum civile. 49 a.C. In the 9th century a series of Viking attacks occurred on the peninsular coasts...
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    of the Vikings in the slave trade in Iberia remains largely hypothetical, their depredations are clearly recorded. Raids on Al-Andalus by Vikings are reported...
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    on Eileach an Naoimh in the Hebrides): a cross marks the spot. Following the raids on the Isle of Sheppey, Thanet became a regular target for Viking attacks...
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    out on a raid, accompanied by many horsemen from the army, Robert Bruce's men, who had been concealed in caves and woodland, made a serious attack on our...
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    Scandinavians: when Al-Yaqūbi recorded Rūs attacking Seville in 844, he was almost certainly talking about Vikings based in Frankia. At other times, it might denote...
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