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    The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part...
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    Roncesvalles Pass, Ronceval Pass or Roncevaux Pass (Spanish: Puerto de Ibañeta; Basque: Ibañetako Mendatea; French: Col de Roncevaux; elevation 1057 m)...
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  • During the Battle of Roncevaux Pass a combined Basque-Qasawi Muslim army defeated a Carolingian military expedition in 824. The battle took place only...
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    ice of the rest of the moon, or by a residue left from the sublimation of Roncevaux-type water ice. Roncevaux Terra is named after the Battle of Roncevaux...
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    part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The story of Roland's death at Roncevaux Pass...
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    Roncesvalles (redirect from Roncevaux)
    the death of Roland in 778, during the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, when Charlemagne's rearguard was destroyed by Basque tribes. When a party of horsemen...
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    Paladin (redirect from Peers of Charlemagne)
    appearance is in The Song of Roland, written between 1050 and 1115, which narrates the heroic death of Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The legend is based...
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    Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in AD 778, during the reign of the Emperor Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature...
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    brother-in-law to be, one of Charlemagne's twelve peers and brother of Aude, Roland's betrothed. He dies with Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. Some critics...
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    Durendal (category The Song of Roland)
    Denis, and a piece of the raiment of Mary, mother of Jesus. According to legend as recounted in the poem, at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass Roland took the...
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  • take the city, he withdrew after a month, which then led to the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. In 780 Husayn had Sulayman al-Arabi killed after he returned to...
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  • example, is about the Battle of Roncevaux Pass during the Moorish invasion of southern France. As the genre matured, elements of fantasy and magic tended...
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  • founding of France by the Franks. Some of the legendary and notable topics were: Charlemagne, the mythological king Battle of Roncevaux Pass Bayard -...
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    losing the majority of his army as happened during the Battle of Roncevaux Pass (778), Battle of Tirad Pass (1899), the Battle of Badgam (1947) which...
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  • King Marsile (category Characters in The Song of Roland)
    (32–52). He takes part in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, kills Bevon, Lord of Beaune and Dijon, Yvoire, Yvon and Gerald of Roussillon, before Roland cuts...
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  • Sulayman al-Arabi (category Walis of Barcelona)
    retreat north his baggage train was ambushed at the battle of Roncevaux Pass August 15, 778. The children of Sulayman, Aysun al-Arabi and Matruh al-Arabi collaborated...
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    Bremen Roland (category Works based on The Song of Roland)
    Charlemagne and hero of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. Statues of Roland appear in numerous cities of the former Holy Roman Empire, as emblems of city liberties...
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    Vascones (category Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula)
    destroyed the walls of Pamplona after a failed attempt to conquer Zaragoza, the Vascones annihilated his rearguard in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778—referred...
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    (1993). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 647. ISBN 9780313335389. "Charlemagne: Battle of Roncevaux Pass". About.com Education...
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    on the Frankish army general Roland who fell dead at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass) or even Tartalo (a one-eyed giant akin to the Greek Cyclops Polyphemus)...
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    the Battle of Roncevaux Pass and includes detailed descriptions of knights' armaments. The hauberk is frequently mentioned as part of the warriors' gear:...
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    credited with ambushing the rearguard of Charlemagne's army and killing Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. Dahn 1894. Chisholm 1911. Bauer...
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  • etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon's cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight...
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    at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees. On line 2924 of the poem, which is in verse number CCIX (209), the word Califerne is one of the lands...
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    Ganelon (category Matter of France)
    betrayed Charlemagne's army to the Saracens, leading to the 778 Battle of Roncevaux Pass. His name is said to derive from the Italian word inganno, meaning...
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  • (area of distinct albedo difference), Cassini: There are two named Iapetian terrae /ˈtɛriː/ (large 'land' masses). The adjectival form of Roncevaux is Roncesvallian...
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    age - even though he was actually under 40 at the time of the historical battle of Roncevaux Pass. An alternative view is that the poem refers to Charlemagne's...
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    the army, and his Moorish ally, King Marsil of Zaragoza, defeated the Franks at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, where Roland was killed. After his victory...
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    of the 7th century AD. In the year 778, the Basques defeated a Frankish army at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. Following the Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824)...
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    August 15 – Battle of Roncevaux Pass (Pyrenees): Charlemagne is defeated by the Basques. Among those killed is Roland, governor of the Breton March, who...
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