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    about what drove the Viking expansion. Researchers have suggested that Vikings may have originally started sailing and raiding due to a need to seek...
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    The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
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    Viking activity in the Iberian peninsula seems to have begun around the mid-ninth century as an extension of Viking raids on and establishment of bases...
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    branch campuses in Seville, and Loyola University Andalusia. International primary and secondary schools Lycée Français de Séville (French school) Deutsche...
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    frustrated when the Viking fleet was totally annihilated. Vikings attacked Tablada again in 889 at the instigation of Kurayb ibn Khaldun of Seville. According...
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    Battle of Roncevaux Pass 782: Bloody Verdict of Verden 793: Viking raid on Lindisfarne; Viking Age begins 796–804: Alcuin initiates the Carolingian Renaissance[dubious...
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    Âge, Paris, PUF, coll. « Quadrige », 2002 p. 94 Sur le sujet, voir Jacques Fontaine, Isidore de Séville et la culture classique dans l'Espagne wisigothique...
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    beginning of the Viking Age. For the next 250 years the Scandinavian raiders of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark dominated the North Sea, raiding monasteries,...
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    Bazelon (2012). The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc. Viking. ISBN 9780670023332. OCLC 1150263570. Guillemin, Henri (1973) [1970]. Joan...
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  • Nagorno-Karabakh War Raid on Nassau – 1703 – War of the Spanish Succession Raid on Nassau (1720) – 1720 – War of the Quadruple Alliance Raid of Nassau – 1776...
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  • Charles III (the Simple) and Rollo, leader of the Vikings, sign a peace agreement (Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte). In return for his homage and conversion...
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  • White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry Est. (2006) US$8,800,000 View of Auvers-sur-Oise by Cézanne Est. (2006) US$3,000,000 Original of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp...
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    edited by G. Mokhtar. Cf., Richard Miles, Carthage must be destroyed (NY: Viking 2010), p. 80. Laroui, Abdullah (1970). L'Histoire du Maghreb: Un essai de...
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    April 2018 Pires, Helio. "Sigurđr's Attack on Lisbon: Where Exactly?" In Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 8 (2012) – Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers...
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    incendiary 'ship-killing' weapons usage by the Muslims are come from the Viking raid on Seville, as the Emirate ships used an incendiary liquid thrown by catapults...
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    Frankish kingdoms. In 793, the first recorded Viking raid occurred at Lindisfarne, ushering in the Viking Age. Germanic paganism refers to the traditional...
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  • Norway (approximate date). 1048 or 1066 – End of the Viking Age: Vikings make an unsuccessful raid on the Kingdom of England; The raiders flee to Flanders...
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    Gaul, but its meaning was later widened to "foreigner", to describe the Vikings, and later still the Normans. The dichotomic words gael and gall are sometimes...
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  • until Tarik landed in Algeciras and Tarifa in April 711. In the year 859 AD Viking troops on board 62 drekars and commanded by the leaders Hastein and Björn...
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    like Venice and Constantinople by sailors and Jewish merchants. The Viking raids further disrupted the trade in western Europe and brought it to a halt...
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    Finley, M. I. (1980). Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. New York: Viking Press. p. 78. Siddharth Kara (10 October 2017). Modern Slavery: A Global...
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    advance he halted. Rahman II repulsed an assault by Vikings who had disembarked in Cádiz, conquered Seville (with the exception of its citadel) and attacked...
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    Tipu rebellion against Bacalar, possibly (indirectly) aided by piratical raids of coastal and riverine Maya hamlets in that district, is thought to have...
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    Arabian Humanities. Revue internationale d'archéologie et de sciences sociales sur la péninsule Arabique/International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences...
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    Trajan (category People from Seville (comarca))
    in the municipium of Italica in the present-day Andalusian province of Seville in southern Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his gens Ulpia...
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    Goths were further emboldened. Sometime between 266 and 267, the Goths raided Greece but when they attempted to move into the Bosporus straits to attack...
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  • was removed and made unavailable to stream on Paramount+ due to the panty raid scene, while "Kwarantined Krab" is delayed due to similarities to the COVID-19...
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    Two-hundred French corsairs, aboard two ships, raid Puerto Caballos. 1561 s.d. – s.d.: French corsairs raid Puerto Caballos and Truxillo. 1571 start of January –...
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    and Christian Iberia remained north of the Douro. In 844 several dozen Viking boats sailed into the Sea of Straw. After a siege of 13 days, the Scandinavians...
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  • générale de Languedoc : avec des notes et les pièces justificatives, composée sur les auteurs et les titres originaux.... T. 4 / par dom Claude de Vic et dom...
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