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	Kingdom of Asturias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Kingdom of Asturias was the earliest Christian political entity to be established in the Iberian peninsula after the collapse of the Visigothic Kingdom after the defeat of King Rodrigo at the Battle of Guadalete and the subsequent Islamic conquest of Iberia.
		The kingdom was established by a nobleman, Pelayo who had returned to his county after the Battle of Guadalete, and became leader of the Astures and founded the Kingdom of Asturias.
		It was not until King Alfonso II of Asturias (791-842), that the kingdom was firmly established with Alfonso's recognition as king of Asturias by Charlemagne and the Pope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Asturias (729 words)

	Asturias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asturias is bordered to the east by Cantabria, to the south by Castilla y León, to the west by Galicia, and to the north by the Cantabrian Sea.
		As a result, Asturias remained loyal to the democratic republican government during the war, and was the scene of an extraordinary defence in extreme terrain, the Battle of El Mazuco.
		Asturias is served by Ranon Airport (OVD), 40 kilometres from Oviedo, near the northwest coast and the industrial town of Avilés.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asturias (1933 words)

	List of Asturian monarchs: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The kingdom of asturias was the first christian nation to be established in the iberian peninsula after it was conquered by the islamic moors in 711....
		Aurelio of asturias was king of asturias from 768 to 774....
		The principality of asturias (asturian: asturies) is a province and an autonomous communities in spainautonomous community of spain on the north coast...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_asturian_monarchs.htm (825 words)

	Pelayo of Asturias
		A nobleman of high birth in the Kingdom of the Visigoths that held power in Spain from the early 8th century until its defeat by the Muslims at the Battle of Guadalete in 711, Pelayo refused to accept Islamic overlordship of his homeland.
		He was captured in 717 and imprisoned by the Moors, but soon escaped and returned to Asturias, where he defeated Munuza and established the Kingdom of Asturias in 718, with its capital at Cangas de Onis.
		It wasn't until 722 that his kingdom was secured, when a powerful Muslim force sent to conquer Asturias once and for all was defeated by Pelayo at the Battle of Covadonga.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pelayo.html (330 words)

	Asturias North of Spain accommodation pages
		Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a polimath and prominent reformer and politician of the late 18th century, was born in the seaside town of Gijón (Xixón in the Asturian language).
		Asturias is especially known for its seafood, such as fresh squid, crab, shrimp and sea bass.
		Asturias is often called "the land of cheeses" (el pais de los quesos) due to the product`s diversity and quality in this region.
	www.direct-hotels-online.com /Spain/Asturias/Asturias.html (1492 words)

	Asturias
		Asturias was the region where the Visigothic nobles and the few Ibero-Romans who supported them took refuge when the Moorish armies swept unstoppably up the Iberian Peninsula from Gibraltar.
		The landscape of inland Asturias is verdant and at least rolling, more often mountainous, for the Cantabrian Mountains which run along the whole north coast of Spain rise to their greatest heights here in the Picos de Europa.
		This is called transhumance and is common with sheep, but in Asturias it involves cattle being moved up the mountain slopes in spring to graze on the fresh green pastures and down into the valleys in autumn for protection from the rigors of winter.
	www.spainforvisitors.com /sections/asturias.htm (907 words)

	SOL - Asturias Spain On Line Lodging reservations Hotels, hostels, apartments...
		The landscape of Asturias is one of striking beauty with the mountains of the Picos de Europa, two hundred miles of ever-changing coastline and an interior rich in forests, rivers and green pastures.
		The richness of the environmental inheritance of Asturias is complemented by that of its history and culture.
		The highwater architectural period in Asturias was in the early middle ages during the Kingdom of Asturias.(792 — 910).
	www.sol.com /moduloca.asp?idCA=6 (901 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Leon
		The eastern half of Asturias was later regained, yet the capital remained in Leon and the new name of the Kingdom was lasting.
		Asturias was a mountainous, rough border landscape, little urbanized, as the succession of movements of the capitals of the christian kingdoms to the (much more urbanized) south indicates.
		Castles of the Kingdom of Leon, from ismael
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/spain/leon.html (851 words)

	ALEA Asturias, art and culture
		The monuments, art, and architecture of Oviedo and the Kingdom of Asturias have been declared World Heritage sites by the World Heritage Committee to ensure their preservation for future generations.
		Asturias also teems with traces of ancient peoples; the Astures, Iberians, Celts, Romans, and Visigoths all left their mark, and the caves and rocks of the region offer ample evidence of the region’s prehistoric past.
		Asturias: a region that is both entirely unique and typically representative of Spain at the same time.
	www.mundoalea.com /ingles/asturias.htm (367 words)

	Asturias - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Principality of Asturias (Español: Principado de Asturias or Asturias) has an extensive history and is an autonomous community within the kingdom of Spain.
		The capital is Oviedo and the two other main cities are the seaport and largest metropolis in Asturias Gijón, and the industrial town of Avilés.
		Annual rainfall is above 900 mm in all the region (Gijón- 971 mm), increasing as we move from the coast to the interior, and reaching its peak in Picos de Europa (Amieva, 1800 mm).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Asturia (2070 words)

	Kingdoms of Iberia - Asturias
		Founded in the northwestern mountains of Spain, shortly after the Omayyid Islamic invasion, Asturias fronted the Bay of Biscay.
		Created just seven years after the collapse of the Visigothic kingdom, Asturias was a Christian revival of that former kingdom (although not the earliest - the County of Barcelona was established one year before, in 717).
		Kingdom expands and evolves into the Kingdom of León.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/IberiaAsturias.htm (72 words)

	Search Results for "Asturias"
		1,128,372) and former kingdom, NW Spain, S of the Bay of Biscay and E of Galicia, and coextensive with...
		...Carlos, prince of the Asturias, 1545-68, prince of the Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain and Maria of Portugal.
		He was elected king by the tribespeople of Asturias and by Visigothic leaders who had escaped...
	bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Asturias (287 words)

	ASTURIAN IN SPAIN
		Asturias is a region located in northern Spain and has 1,087,885 inhabitants (1997).
		Asturias has its own language variety, Asturianu (also called Bable, which is the official name of the language according to the Statute of Autonomy).
		The passage from Latin to Asturian was slow and progressive, and for a long period both co-existed in a diglossic relationship, in the kingdom of Asturias first and that of Asturias and Leon later.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/asturia/an/i1/i1.html (5161 words)

	AllRefer.com - Asturias, Spain & Portugal (Spanish And Portuguese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From Asturias came the Christian reconquest of Spain, as the successors of King Alfonso I extended their control over Asturias, Galicia, LeOn, and parts of Castile, Navarre, and Vizcaya.
		Astorga was one of the chief cities of the Asturian kingdom in the 9th cent.
		the capital was moved from Oviedo to LeOn, and the kingdom of Asturias became the kingdom of Asturias and LeOn, which three centuries later was united with the kingdom of Castile.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AstursSp.html (414 words)

	A Brief History of the Principality of Asturias. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although it kept its title as a Kingdom, Asturias would from that time on be a mere province of the Castilian Leonese Crown, although it continued to play an important role in the civil struggles of the Middle Ages.
		In 1388, during the reign of Juan I, the Principality was constituted and it was decided that the title of Prince of Asturias would be given to the heir presumptive to the Crown.
		During the 16th to 18th centuries, Asturias was very much on the sidelines of the major events of Spanish political history, although it revived in the 19th century when it became the first region to organize the revolutionary movement against the French.
	www.sispain.org /SiSpain/english/politics/autonomo/asturias/asthis.html (302 words)

	History of SPAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During the 5th century the Visigoths rule a large kingdom in southern France and frequently campaign south of the Pyrenees into Spain.
		The reconquest of Spain has been a dream of the Christians ever since the Muslim conquest in the early 8th century, when the Christian Visigoths are rapidly confined to the tiny kingdom of Asturias in the extreme north.
		In the dance of the Spanish kingdoms these are established partners, confronting Navarre and Aragon to the east.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1741&HistoryID=ab50 (2234 words)

	Kingdom of Leon
		Their main settlements in the future Kingdom of Leon were Helmantica (today the city of Salamanca), Bletisa (Ledesma), and Mirobriga (Ciudad Rodrigo).
		Kingdom of Leon (then "Region of Leon"); at the beginning it was made up by the actual provinces of Asturias, Leon, Zamora and Salamanca, but Asturias was segregated in the 15th century.
		This blog is intended to spread in English the history of the Kingdom of Leon, that was without a doubt the most important Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula in the High Middle Ages (11th, 12th and 13th centuries) until the year 1230.
	kingdomofleon.blogspot.com (958 words)

	Chapter 3: A History of Spain and Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The only unifying factors in the early years of the kingdom were the crown, the church, and above all the frontier, for it was common determination to resist Muslim domination that brought together the diverse population of Asturias.
		Yet their population was small, even compared with the kingdom of Asturias, and at first they were obliged to come to terms with Muslim authorities, accepting a kind of tributary status.
		From the first generations of the kingdom of Asturias, they had been under pressure in Asturias and Galicia to seek protection from warrior aristocrats by placing their land under incomuniatio (in later Castilian, encomendación), granting the overlord full use of part of it and keeping only a portion for themselves.
	libro.uca.edu /payne1/payne3.htm (9026 words)

	History of Castile and Leon - IBWiki
		This was short lasted as a short quarter century later in 742 it was recaptured by the Kingdom of Asturias.
		The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north and, after the loss of Toledo in 1085, the Muslim rulers reluctantly invited the Almoravides, who invaded Al-Andalus from North Africa and established an empire.
		The ancient Kingdom of Asturias clung to the loose mountains of northeastern Spain, with its capital at Oviedo, while the Basques in Navarre retained sovereignty through the period of Muslim rule.
	ib.frath.net /w/History_of_Castile_and_Leon (6069 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Asturias (Spain), 8th-9th Century
		Under Pelayo's successors, the little kingdom annexed GALICIA (around 750) and Leon, which was Asturian in the latter half of the 9th century.
		Asturias was a Kingdom of the Germanic type, it's main institution the king himself.
		When the king had several sons, Asturias was divided - into the Kingdoms of Leon, Castille, the county of Braga (which was to develop into the Kingdom of Portugal).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/spain/asturias.html (362 words)

	The Royal Scribe
		Spain’s Prince and Princess of Asturias couldn’t have asked for a more propitious date for the birth of their first child, due in November, for it was in that month in 1975 that the House of Bourbon was restored - for the third time - to the Spanish throne.
		But while the Prince and Princess of Asturias and their unborn child certainly hold the key to the future of the Spanish monarchy, few outside Spain understand the historical significance of what is known today as the Principality of Asturias, even though it was there that the foundation of today’s Spanish monarchy was laid.
		Come November, the birth of the Prince and Princess of Asturias’ child will bring the Asturias connection full circle, as the child’s double-barreled Asturian heritage may one day make him or her the first hereditary Prince or Princess of Asturias in goodness-knows-how-long actually to be born of a native Asturian.
	www.etoile.co.uk /Columns/RoyalScribe/050822.html (1051 words)

	Asturias Hotels
		Hotel establishments, camp sites, rural accommodation and tourist apartments make up a wide tourist offer which gives visitors the opportunity to enjoy a service of quality and with special attention to the consumer and which is considered one of the best offers in Europe.
		The Principality of Asturias (Asturian: Principau d'Asturies or Asturies) has over 3500 years of recorded history and is an autonomous community within the country of Spain.
		Troops under the command of Francisco Franco were brought from the North African colonies to put down the rebellion and a ferocious repression followed.
	www.sleepinspain.com /asturias/asturias.asp (663 words)

	Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias
		In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the tiny Kingdom of the Asturias.
		Extension of the "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias", to include monuments in the city of Oviedo.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/312 (213 words)

	History of Spain - Moors
		In 718 the Visigothic chieftain Pelayo, a survivor of the Muslim victory at the Battle of Guadalete, founded the tiny kingdom of Asturias in the mountains of northwestern Spain.
		Under the rule of Alfonso III the kingdom of Asturias expanded greatly, reaching across much of the northwest and as far south as the valley of the Douro (or Duero).
		The northwestern kingdom of Castile and León, which included the former kingdom of Asturias, gained the greatest share of lands reconquered from the Muslims.
	www.spanish-fiestas.com /history/moors.htm (1088 words)

	Asturias
		Alfonso I, Spanish king of Asturias - Alfonso I (Alfonso the Catholic), 693?–757, Spanish king of Asturias (739–57).
		Alfonso II, Spanish king of Asturias - Alfonso II (Alfonso the Chaste), 759–842, Spanish king of Asturias (791–842), grandson...
		Carlos, prince of the Asturias - Carlos, 1545–68, prince of the Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain and Maria of Portugal.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0805142.html (391 words)

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