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  Spain
The Quaternary formations are found chiefly on the east coast and the Provinces of Madrid (north-west), Segovia, Valladolid, Palencia, and Asturias, and the basins of the principal rivers.
The Principality of Asturias is the Province of Oviedo.
In the regions of the pure Iberians, Catalan is spoken, with its dialects, the Valencian and Balearic; in the regions conquered by the Celts, the languages are Gallego, Portuguese, and the bable of Asturias; in the Celtiberian and Tartesian portions, Castilian.
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  Asturias
Aurelio of Asturias Aurelio of Asturias was King of Asturias from 768 to 774.
Mauregato of Asturias Mauregato, "the Usurper", was king of Moorish woman.
Ramiro I of Asturias Ramiro I (Ordono I. Silo Of Asturias
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 Asturian art at AllExperts
Pre-Romanesque art in Asturias is framed between the years 718 and 910, the period of the rise, extension and disappearance of the kingdom of Asturias.
Outside Asturias, with the legend of the discovery of the apostle St.
Nowadays, it conserves its western half from that period, together with several elements in the rest of the church such as the fantastic jambs in the vestibule or the extraordinary lattice on the window of the southern wall, sculpted from one single piece of stone.
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 Things to See in Oviedo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For the art and architecture buff, Asturias is the land of the pre-Romanesque unique survivals of early medieval building and decoration.
Oviedo, is the capital of Principado de Asturias, with a population of 250.000.
Founded in the year 761 on the hill of Ovetao, the city began to grow around the monastery of San Vicente built by the abbot Fromestano, of Fromista: it is generally considered that Fruela I was the first monarch to instigate the development of Oviedo.
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 reyesasturias
Rey de Asturias (718-737), noble godo que ya había sido nombrado caudillo de los rebeldes en 718 en una asamblea celebrada al más puro estilo visigodo, consiguió dispersar a las tropas musulmanas en la llamada batalla de Covadonga, probablemente ocurrida en 722.
Rey de Asturias (850-866) se aprovechó de las luchas intestinas en Al-Andalus para extender los límites del Reino, repoblando nuevamente León y otras ciudades como Astorga o Tuy, dando salida de esa forma a la numerosa población que ya vivía en los territorios asturianos y que empezaba a tener problemas de aprovisionamiento.
Rey de Asturias (866-910) sucedió a su padre en la dirección del Reino a los dieciocho años y sus inicio de reinado fueron realmente tumultuosos.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1146 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Fruela I of ASTURIAS [Parents] was born CIR 740.
Alfonso II the Chaste of ASTURIAS was born CIR 765 and died 20 Mar 842.
Fruela I of ASTURIAS was born CIR 740 and died 768.
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 Chapter 3: A History of Spain and Portugal
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.
The mountainous regions of Asturias and Cantabria had been peripheral and among the least sophisticated of the peninsula, though the districts of Galicia and Braga to the southwest were more developed.
In practice, however, there was an early tendency in the more settled parts of Galicia and Asturias for dominions of aristocrats to become permanent and inheritable and for aristocrats to exercise economic and legal jurisdiction by mere right of dominion, not as temporary lieutenants of the crown.
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 WHKMLA : History of Asturias (Spain), 8th-9th Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Between Catalonia and Asturias were located the statelets of ARAGON and NAVARRA, the early history of which is poorly documented.
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)

  
 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1146 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Alfonso II the Chaste of ASTURIAS was born CIR 765 and died 20 Mar 842.
Hermesinda of ASTURIAS [ Parents ] married Alfonso I the Catholic of ASTURIAS.
Fruela I of ASTURIAS was born CIR 740 and died 768.
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 Mauregato of Asturias -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mauregato, "the Usurper", was king of (Click link for more info and facts about Asturias) Asturias from (Click link for more info and facts about 783) 783 to (Click link for more info and facts about 788) 788.
He was an illegitimate son of (Click link for more info and facts about Alfonso I) Alfonso I, supposedly by a (A style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries; characterized by the horseshoe (Moorish) arch) Moorish woman.
This is considered to presage the legend of the saint's burial at (Click link for more info and facts about Santiago de Compostela) Santiago de Compostela.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Mauregato_of_Asturias.htm   (168 words)

  
 Reino de Asturias
Hijo del duque Fáfila, hijo a su vez de Chindasvinto, se refugió en Asturias después de la batalla de Guadalete (711), donde fue derrotado D. Rodrigo, último rey de la denominada dinastía visigoda.
La nobleza apoyó a Mauregato, por no haberse olvidado de los desafueros de Fruela I, para que usurpase el trono al Alfonso II, hijo de éste.
También se dice que Mauregato fue ayudado por los musulmanes, a quienes pidió ayuda, a los cuales tuvo que pagar tributo en señal de vasallaje.
usuarios.lycos.es /ESCUDOS/reino-asturias.htm   (1926 words)

  
 Reyes de Asturias
Alfonso II de Asturias (760- 842) apodado el Casto, rey de Asturias entre los años 791 y 842.
Fruela I de Asturias (722-Cangas de Onis, 768), Duque de Cantabria y Rey de Asturias.
Mauregato, rey de Asturias entre los años 783- 789.
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 Origion of Purcell name
It is a belief of Middle Age historians that some important Visigoth Lords battled against the Moors and went ruling the lands they conquered with the authorisation of the Kings of Oviedo and Asturias with the title of Earls or Counts.
It is said that he had lands in Asturias where there existed a village named Porcelos, close to Gijón bur it is also possible that the name Porcelo comes from the latin word Porcello, small pigs, since Diego was the son of a sextuple labor.
Alfonso I The Catholic, King of Asturias, son of Pedro Duke of Cantabria and son in law of Don Pelayo (730 – 756)
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 Mauregato of Asturias Definition / Mauregato of Asturias Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mauregato, "the Usurper", was king of Asturias 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.
The kingdom was established by a Visigothic nobleman, Pelayo, who rebelled against the Moorish governor of Asturias in 718.
Not long afterwards, he inflicted a crushing defeat on the Moors at the Battle of Covadonga, an event which likely took place in the summer of 722, although some sources place it as early as in 718, and others in 721.
www.elresearch.com /Mauregato_of_Asturias   (338 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Mauregato''', "the Usurper", was king of Kingdom of Asturias Asturias from 783 to 788.
He was an illegitimate son of Alfonso I of Asturias Alfonso I, supposedly by a Moors Moorish woman.
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 Iberia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Contains: Andorra, Aragon, Asturias, the Azores, Barcelona, Besalu, Cadiz, Castile, Cerdana, Coimbra, Galicia, Gerona, Leon, Navarre, Oporto, Pallars, Pamplona, Portugal, Sobrarbre, Spain (general survey), Tartessos, Toledo (Archbishops), and Urgel.
This tiny Principality, nestled high in the Pyrenees Mountains on the French-Spanish border, was established in 1278 by the Treaty of Joint Suzerainty between the Spanish Bishop of Urgel and the French Count of Foix, whose descendants inherited Navarre in 1479 and then France in 1589.
Asturias is the oldest of the Christian Kingdoms, the region from whence resistence to the Arabs first erupted.
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 Asturias, Galicia and León
When the Visigothic kingdom collapsed as a result of the Moors invasion 711 was the province of Asturias on Spain's northern coast the only part that was not conquered.
Pelayo (or perhaps Alfonso I) created the kingdom of Asturias, which would defend and expand the territories ruled by Christians during the following centuries.
The year 910 was Asturias divided into three parts between the brothers Fruela II (Asturias), Ordoño II (Galicia) and García I (León).
www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/iberian/leon.htm   (194 words)

  
 Historia de la monarquía asturiana
En esta sección se va a tratar lo que es la historia de Asturias desde tiempos de Pelayo hasta que la corte fue trasladada de Santianes a Oviedo por Alfonso II.
Alfonso por su parte con la subida al poder de Mauregato hubo de huir a Álava y refugiarse junto a parientes vasco de su madre "para vivir entre ellos desterrado"(1).
Sobre el reinado de Mauregato poco se sabe: lo más destacado podría se la invención sobre el tributo de vasallaje que debería pagar cada año a los musulmanes en forma de cien doncellas, que se hizo "en el siglo XII con ocasión de la falsificación del legendario Voto de Santiago"(1).
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 Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian peninsula at AllExperts
In this period this is a lot of unrest in Galicia towards the rule of Asturias.
He was an illegitimate son of Alfonso I of Asturias, supposedly by a Moorish woman.
**The capital city of the Kingdom of Asturias is moved from Oviedo to León, becomes Kingdom of León.
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 My Lines - Person Page 136
Ordoño II, rey de León was buried in the Church of Saint Mary, Oviedo, Asturias, Iberian peninsula.
Alfonso III "el Magno", rey de Asturias was buried in the Church of Saint Mary, Oviedo, Asturias, Iberian peninsula.
Ordoño Iº, rey de Asturias was born circa 815 in León.
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 Marcus Antonius to Maite - tobg41.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Alfonso married Hermesinda de Asturias daughter of Pelayo, Rey de Asturias and Gaudiosa.
Vimerano de Asturias died in 737 in murdered.
Mauregato I, Rey de Asturias died in 788.
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 THE RON HOUSE, A. de Ron; A. E. Ron, Translator
Asturias: center, fortress, and birthplace of the Reconquista, was already the bastion of her independence when the Roman Legions sent by Augustus and his Legates tried to subdue her by force in order to subject it to the Empire.
This post was usually held by members of the family of the King, as Asturias was considered to be the province of the highest significance, thus requiring its governor to be a person of the highest category.
The Ibias lineage is one of the most ancient of Asturias, and is heard of in the 8th Century during the invasion of Spain by the Moors.
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 Santiago de Compostela - Alfonso_II_de_Asturias
A su muerte es elegido como rey debido al apoyo de su tía y de los magnates de la corte, pero su tío Mauregato organiza una fuerte oposición y consigue deponer a Alfonso, que se refugia en Álava entre sus parientes maternos.
Cuando Bermudo I renuncia al trono debido a su derrota en la batalla de Burbia, Alfonso regresa a Asturias y es proclamado rey el 14 de septiembre de 791.
Se sabe que mantuvo contactos con el emperador Carlomagno, pues hay constancia de que tres delegaciones asturianas viajaron a la corte de los francos en los años 796, 797 y 798, aunque se desconocen los asuntos de los que trataron.
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 Asturias en el Camino de Santiago, El Azabache en el Camino de Santiago, Grado
Pero los caminos de Asturias son múltiples y diversos en su naturaleza y cada uno de ellos puede deparar al viajero emociones inolvidables, únicas.
Silo- Mauregato- Aurelio- Fruela- Alfonso I- Pelayo- Favila- Bermudo-
El Camino de Santiago a su paso por Asturias, puede completarse con esos otros caminos, con veredas, pasos, sendas y collados no menos sugerentes y gratificantes, tal vez por eso no deberíamos referirnos al "Camino" sino a los Caminos de Santiago.
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 Mauregato - Wikipedia en español
Rey de Asturias entre los años 783 - 789.
Al morir el rey Silo es elegido rey como el joven Alfonso (que más tarde sería Alfonso II de Asturias) a instancias de la reina Adosinda, esposa de Silo.
Pero Mauregato organiza una fuerte oposición y consigue que el nuevo rey se retire a tierras alavesas.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauregato   (157 words)

  
 Chapter 3: St. James's Catapult
A hymn in honour of St. James was composed somewhere in the Asturian kingdom of northern Spain, and an acrostic formed from the first letters of its sixty lines dates it to the reign of king Mauregato (783-8).
Arab chroniclers furnish an account of the siege and conquest of Mérida in 712-13, probably based on a document which recorded the terms of surrender, which tells us that some of the Christian inhabitants had fled to the north, leaving their churches in Mérida deserted.
Misgivings might cluster about the implied suggestion that the relationship between the Asturias and Galicia was akin to that between Wessex and Northumbria.
libro.uca.edu /sjc/sjc3.htm   (8724 words)

  
 My Family
Parents: Alfonso I the Catholic of Asturias and Hermesinda of Asturias.
Children were: Fruela I of Asturias, Vimerano of Asturias, Adosinda of Asturias.
Children were: Alfonso II the Chaste of Asturias, daughter of Fruela I of Asturias.
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 thePeerage.com - unknown and others
     Mauregato, King of Asturias was the son of Alfonso I, King of Asturias.
     Ramiro I, King of Asturias was the son of Vermudo I, King of Asturias.
     Ordoño I, King of Asturias was the son of Ramiro I, King of Asturias.
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 Reyes de Asturias
Más tarde, y ya asentado en Asturias el gobernador musulmásn Munuza, envía a Pelayo a Córdoba y en su ausencia, se casa con una hermana de Pelayo.
El primero pidió ayuda a Abderramán y consiguió el trono, huyendo Alfonso hacia Álava.Como contrapartida a la ayuda musulmana, Mauregato se comprometió "al tributo de las cien doncellas", que no pudo ser cumplido al oponerse nobles de la corte.
En tiempos de Mauregato, Asturias se pacificó aún más y hubo de tomar partido frente a la herejñia adopcionista (defendida por el obispo de Toledo, Elipando y el obispo de Urgel, Félix) contando con el apoyo de Eterio y de Beato de Liébana.
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