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Battle of Covadonga

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41: 1770:, were sent to Asturias. As Alqama overran much of the region, folklore suggests that Oppas attempted to broker the surrender of his fellow Christians, but he failed in the effort. Pelagius and his force retreated deep into the mountains of Asturias, eventually retiring into a narrow valley flanked by mountains, which was easily defensible due to the impossibility of launching a broad-fronted attack. Pelagius may have had as few as three hundred men with him. 1798: 1774:
led some of his soldiers out into the valley. They had been hiding in a cave, unseen by the Muslims. The Christian accounts of the battle claim that the slaughter among the Muslims was horrific, while Umayyad accounts describe it as a mere skirmish. Alqama himself fell in the battle, and his soldiers withdrew from the battlefield.
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In the aftermath of Pelagius's victory, the people of the conquered villages of Asturias now emerged with their weapons, and killed hundreds of Alqama's retreating troops. Munuza, learning of the defeat, organized another force, and gathered what was left of the survivors of Covadonga. At some later
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No eran ya los visigodos cobardes y afeminados de Witiza; eran los dignos descendientes de aquella raza teutĂłnica que vino ĂĄ mezclar su sangre con la del Bajo Imperio para salvar la civilizacion europea; eran aquellos hijos del Norte que se apellidaban el azote de Dios English:"They were no longer
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Alqama eventually arrived at Covadonga, and sent forward an envoy to convince Pelagius to surrender. He refused, so Alqama ordered his best troops into the valley to fight. The Asturians shot arrows and stones from the slopes of the mountains, and then, at the climactic moment, Pelagius personally
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Witiza's cowardly and effeminate Visigoths; they were the worthy descendants of that Teutonic race that came to mix their blood with that of the Lower Empire to save European civilization; they were those sons of the North who were called the scourge of God...
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still played an important role in the society of Hispania. At the end of Visigothic rule, the assimilation of Hispano-Romans and Visigoths was occurring at a fast pace. Their nobility had begun to think of themselves as constituting one people, the
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From the beginning of the Muslim invasion of Hispania, refugees and combatants from the south of the peninsula had been moving north to avoid Islamic authority. Some had taken refuge in the remote mountains of
1699:. He held the territory against a number of attempts to re-establish Muslim control, and soon founded the Kingdom of Asturias, which became a Christian stronghold against further Muslim expansion. 1440: 1691:(tax on non-Muslims) to the Muslims any longer and to assault the small Umayyad garrisons that had been stationed in the area. Eventually, he managed to expel a provincial governor named 1706:. Consequently, there was only a minor perfunctory reaction. Pelagius was not always able to keep the Muslims out of Asturias but neither could they defeat him, and as soon as the 900: 2008: 267: 2013: 1433: 1738:). This was the first serious setback in the Muslim campaign in southwestern Europe. Reluctant to return to CĂłrdoba with such unalloyed bad news, the Umayyad 1862:
Sånchez-Albornoz, Claudio. "The kingdom of Asturias. Origins of the Spanish nation". Collection: Biblioteca Histórica Asturiana. Silverio Cañada, Gijón, 1989
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Ruiz de la Peña, Ignacio. "Battle of Covadonga", at "la Gran Enciclopedia Asturiana, Volume 5, pp. 167-172. Publisher Silverio Cañada,Gijón, 1981.
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in the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula. There, from among the dispossessed of the south, Pelagius recruited his band of fighters.
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For the first few years, this rebellion posed no threat to the new masters of Hispania, whose seat of power had been established at
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date, he confronted Pelagius and his now greatly augmented force, near the modern town of
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left, he would always re-establish control. Islamic forces were focused on raiding
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forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally regarded as the foundational event of the
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La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds
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Historian Joseph F. O'Callaghan says the remnants of the Hispano-Gothic
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of Spain by the Christians of the north of the Iberian Peninsula.
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International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe
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and other groups unassimilated into Hispano-Gothic society.
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F. Navarro Villoslada (1857). Abelardo de Carlos (ed.).
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Archer, Thomas Andrew and Charles Lethbridge Kingsford,
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O'Callaghan (15 April 2013). 1811: 1825:, (Oxford University Press, 2014), 23. 1553:took place in 722 between the army of 222:187,000 (according to Codex Vigilanus) 7: 1610:during the late ninth century, the 1569:, it resulted in a victory for the 240:1104 (according to Codex Vigilanus) 1590:("reconquest") of Spain after the 1577:and thus the initial point of the 14: 1924:, (G.P. 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Index

Reconquista

Pelagius of Asturias
Reconquista
Picos de Europa
Covadonga
Spain
43°18â€Č32″N 5°03â€Č20″W / 43.30889°N 5.05556°W / 43.30889; -5.05556
Asturian
Reconquista
Kingdom of Asturias
Umayyad Caliphate
Pelagius of Asturias
Munuza

Alqama

Ahmad al-Maqqari
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Reconquista
Covadonga
1st Roncevaux Pass
Burbia River
Orbieu River
Lutos
Las Babias
RĂ­o QuirĂłs
Oviedo

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