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Aug 18, 2019 · Today we will travel step by step from the early, proto history of the Iberian Peninsula, understanding the detailed and gradual emergence and disappearance of its peoples, as we seek to uncover the truth behind its modern identity.
Key Events. The Phocaeans, Greeks from northern Ionia, found a trading station at Emporion in Tartessos, a region of south Spain. Tartessos’ trade with the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Brittany makes it proverbially wealthy. The Battle of Aleria takes place on Corsica.
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219 B.C.: Hannibal, a Carthaginian general, takes over Sagunto after a battle between the Carthaginians and Saguntines, allies of Rome. This battle triggered the Second Punic War.227 B.C.: Foundation of Carthage Nova by the Carthaginian general Asdrubal the Beautiful, son-in-law and successor of General Hannibal’s father, Hannibal Barca.At that time, Carthage Nova was the most important of the Peninsula’s cities due to its strong position and a well-built wall. It was provided with ports, lagoons, and silver mines.226 B.C.: Rome and Carthage signed the Treaty of the Ebro, fixing their respective areas of influence to the north and south of this river. Under these terms, Carthage could not expand north of the...711: Muslim penetration to the Iberian Peninsula. In their expansion through North Africa, the Muslims reached the Atlantic in 707. And, to their benefit, they saw that the Visigoths had many inter...722: Victory of Pelayo in Covadonga. He was the founder of the Christian kingdom of Asturias in northern Spain. He stopped the expansion of the Muslims to the north and began the Reconquest.756: Abderramán I proclaimed himself Emir, becoming politically independent from the rest of the Muslim Empire. Giving rise to Al-Andalus.VIII-X: The rise of the kingdoms of Asturias and Pamplona and the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe, Ribagorza, and Barcelona.1474-1479: Castilian civil war. The kingdom of Castile was in a power struggle between the followers of the future Isabella the Catholic and those of her niece Juana, known as “la Beltraneja.”1479: The union of Castile and Aragon under the Catholic Monarchs.1492: One of the most important years in the history of Spain.1700-1746: reign of Philip V (Bourbon dynasty).1702-1714: War of the Spanish Succession.1707-1716: centralization and reform of the Spanish territorial administration. Creation of the secretaries of state.1714: end of the War of Succession. Spain cedes the Netherlands and its territories in Italy to Austria, Sicily to Savoy, and Gibraltar and Menorca to Great Britain.1793-95: a war against revolutionary France and the Peace of Basel (1795).1795-1808: the foreign policy of alliance with France; permanent war with Great Britain.1805: battle of Trafalgar, destruction of the Spanish navy.1807: Spain authorizes the entry of French troops into its territory.1833-1840: regency of Maria Cristina of Parma. First Carlist War.1837: the promulgation of the progressist constitution of 1837.1839: Treaty of Bergara: end of the Carlist war in the north.1840: the victory of Espartero over Cabrera, end of the Carlist war in Levante.1931: constitutional elections in June. Republican constitution on December 9.1931-1933: Military, agrarian, territorial, socialist, and religious reforms.1932: Attempted coup by General Sanjurjo (August). Approval of the autonomy of Catalonia and agrarian reform.1933: Anarchist insurrection: events of Casas Viejas. Law of Religious Congregations. Fall of Azaña. The victory of the center and the Catholic right in general elections. Creation of Falange Españ...1939: End of the war. Franco became Generalissimo of Spain.1940: Spain, non-belligerent in World War II. Franco-Hitler interview in Hendaye.1941: Sending of the Blue Division to Russia.1943: Spain, neutral in World War II.- inigo@sensationalspain.com
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The six reliefs with scenes of the Passion and of events following Christ’s Resurrection, carved in a first campaign around 1130, are distinguished by the elegance of their multifigured compositions, the clarity of their narratives, and the precision of their execution, reminiscent of ivory carving. The closest stylistic parallels are found ...
The first large settlement of Europe by modern humans, nomadic hunter-gatherers coming from the steppes of central Asia. When the Ice Age reached its maximum extent, these modern humans took refuge in southern Europe, namely in Iberia, and in the steppes of southern Ukraine and Russia.
In the Iberian culture people were organized in chiefdoms and states. Three phases can be identified: the Ancient, the Middle and the Late Iberian period.
Overview. From 500 to 1000 A.D., the Iberian Peninsula witnesses different waves of conquests by the Visigothic, Byzantine, and Arab armies. Christian rule under the. Byzantines. and Visigoths in the first half of the period comes to an end with the introduction of Islam in the eighth century by Arab armies. Under Islamic. Umayyad.
