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"In this tiny mountain hamlet, history was about to be made."
In 722AD a Muslim army marched into the frosty mountains of Asturias. They were searching for the last holdout of Christian resistance, led by a shadowy figure named Pelayo.
Since the fall of his kingdom a decade earlier, Pelayo had become a rallying point for other vagrants. A thorn in the heel of The Caliphate.
As the invaders descended on the village of Covadonga, they had one goal: extinguish the last light of the old world...
The Reconquista was about to begin!
Additional Reading / Sources:
- The Chronicle of Alphonso III
- Getica - the history of the goths by Jordanes
- Medieval Iberia : readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources
- A Society Organized for War The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284 by James F Powers
- Homage to al-Andalus: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain by Michael B Barry
- A history of medieval Spain by O'Callaghan, Joseph F pdf
- THE GOTHS IN SPAIN,1969 by E. A.THOMPSON
- Adrianople, AD 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions by Simon MacDowall
- The Roman History by Ammianus Marcellinus
- The Fall of the Roman Empire (vol 1) by Edward Gibbons
- The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Maqqarī, Ahmed Ibn Mohammed Al-Makkari, Ibn al-Khaṭīb
- Visigothic Spain by Roger Collins
- Twilight of The Goths - The Kingdom of Toledo
Pelistes, The Defender Of Cordova by Charles Morris - Article 'The Many Faces Of Pelayo'
Attributions:
- A huge thankyou to my generous patreons! You guys make the show possible! xo
- Paid Artlist.io license for 'Anthology Of Heroes Podcast' utilised for numerous sounds/music
- The Ice Giants by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.