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 | | Roger took very much at heart his title and started a systematic fight against the Muslim of Sicily, and it took him about 19 years to complete the geographic and demographic conquest of that land, which was lived in by Greeks, Moors, French, Latins, and, of course, Sicilians. |
 | | The pope consented and Roger was crowned in the court of Palermo, on the 25 of December, in a never seen lavish, official gala ceremony, as king of Sicily. |
 | | Roger II had this ceremony done on the 25 of December, to drive in the mind of his subjects his divine right to the Kingship, he had a mosaic done in the church of the Martorana in Palermo, where he is crowned king by Jesus Christ Himself. |
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