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Was the Kingdom established by the Visigoths, a Germanic Tribe, in the Western Roman Empire territory during the late period of the Empire. Initially, it occupied Western Spain and Aquitaine. Soon it was able to conquer the Swabian Kingdom, that controleld the western Iberian Peninsula, but at the same time lost most of its territories in France to the Franks. The Kingdom of the Visigoths ceased to exist when the Iberian Pensinsula was conquered by the Caliphate of the Umayyads.
Establishment
January 419: After the invasion of Italy, the Goths invaded Gaul, where, after ups and downs, they reached a peace agreement with the Empire, obtaining permission from the Emperor Honorius to settle as Foederati in Aquitania.
Chronology
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The Visigoths were allowed to create a foederati kingdom in Aquitania.
The Visigoths, that controlled Aquitania as foederati of Rome, tried to expand into southern France but were stopped by the Romans.
January 426: In those years the Visigoths expanded their conquests and in 425 they arrived as far as the walls of Arles, where an army arrived under the command of Ezio, who forced them to flee. After further fighting, peace was reached in 426 which forced the Goths to return to their assigned provinces.
February 426: In those years the Visigoths expanded their conquests and in 425 they arrived as far as the walls of Arles, where an army arrived under the command of Ezio, who forced them to flee. After further fighting, peace was reached in 426 which forced the Goths to return to their assigned provinces.
The Visigoths, that controlled Aquitania as foederati of Rome, tried to expand into southern France but were stopped by the Romans.
January 437: The Visigoths, stationed in Aquitaine, attacked Septimania and the surroundings of Narbonne and Arelate in an attempt to acquire an outlet on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile the Visigoths, in an attempt to acquire an outlet to the Mediterranean, besieged Narbonne in 436, but were forced to lift the siege due to the arrival of the general Litorio with Hun auxiliaries.
February 437: The Visigoths, stationed in Aquitaine, attacked Septimania and the surroundings of Narbonne and Arelate in an attempt to acquire an outlet on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile the Visigoths, in an attempt to acquire an outlet to the Mediterranean, besieged Narbonne in 436, but were forced to lift the siege due to the arrival of the general Litorio with Hun auxiliaries.
The Visigoths conquered the area of Orleans, in modern-day France.
January 453: Visigothic king Thorismund subjugated the Alans of the Orléans area.
Was the Visigothic invasion and conquest of territories in modern-day Spain.
November 456: Avitus was willing to take action against the Swabians, who threatened the Tarraconense: he therefore sent the Visigoths to Spain, who, however, if they managed to annihilate the Swabians, plundered the Hispanic territory and seized it to the detriment of the Romans.
Was a battle between the Western Roman empire and the Kingdom of the Suebi.
January 457: Suevic king of Gallaecia Rechiar launched a campaign in Tarraconense in 456.
February 457: The Suebian army leaves Terraconenis, returning to Galicia with a large number of prisoners.
The Burgundians expanded their Kingdom southwards.
November 458: In late 458 Majorian led his army, reinforced by a contingent of barbarians, into Gaul, driving Theodoric II's Visigoths from Arelate, forcing them to revert to foederati status and to hand over the diocese of Spain, which Theodoric had conquered three years earlier to name of Avitus.
Were a series of conflicts between the Roman Empire and the Goths.
8.1.Gothic War (458)
Visigoths under Theodoric II fought against the Western Roman Empire under Majorian.
November 458: In late 458 Majorian entered Septimania (now southern France) to attack Theodoric and reclaim the province for the empire. Majorian defeated Theodoric at the Battle of Arelate, forcing him to abandon the territory.
Western Roman Emoperor Majorian was assassinated and overthrown by Ricimer.
September 461: When Western Roman emperor Majorian was killed on the orders of Ricimer in 461, general Aegidius maintained his own rule in the remnants of Roman Gaul that came to be known as the Domain or Kingdom of Soissons.
September 461: After Roman emperor Majorian's withdrawal from Spain, no other Roman official is attested in the sources in the Iberian Peninsula, making it clear that after 460 Spain was no longer part of the Empire. The Visigoths and the Bugundi took back the territories lost in 458.
The are of Narbona (France) was donated by the Western Roman Empire to the Kingdom of the Visigoths.
January 463: Agrippino turned to the Visigoths and with their help he fought against Egidio and his Frankish allies, led by King Childeric I: to obtain their support, in 462 Agrippino gave the Visigoths access to the Mediterranean Sea, assigning them the city of Narbonne, separating made Aegidius from the rest of the empire.
The Visigoths expanded their kingdom northwards.
January 464: The border of the kingdom to the north had been brought to the Loire and when Theodoric attempted to expand his domains northward by sending an army under the command of his brother Frederick, he found the opposition of the magister militum Egidio, who in a battle, in 463, defeated the Goths and killed Theodoric's brother, Frederick.
February 464: The border of the kingdom to the north had been brought to the Loire and when Theodoric attempted to expand his domains northward by sending an army under the command of his brother Frederick, he found the opposition of the magister militum Egidio, who in a battle, in 463, defeated the Goths and killed Theodoric's brother, Frederick.
Was a war between the Kingdom of the Visigoths and the Kingdom of the Suebi, both Kingdoms created on Roman territory in the Iberian Peninsula by Germanic peoples during the Migration Period.
January 469: The new king of the Visigoths, Euric, changed his policy towards the Suevi, from friendly to contrary, bringing the war (which was terrible according to the chronicler Hydatius, bishop of Chaves in Galicia) in Lusitania and pushed the Suevi into the old borders.
Euric, King of the Visigoths, attacked the Western Roman Empire, capturing Hispania Tarraconensis in 472, the last bastion of Roman rule in Spain.
January 470: Euric also attacked the Western Roman Empire, capturing Hispania Tarraconensis in 472, the last bastion of Roman rule in Spain.
Euric, King of the Visigoths, occupied the parts of southern Gaul still controlled by the Western Roman Empire.
January 470: The Visigoths of the new king Eurico took advantage of the defeat in 468. In 469, eager to form a completely independent kingdom from Rome, he invaded the provinces of Gaul still in imperial hands: Anthemius tried to stop the advance of the Visigothic king, allying himself with the Breton king Riothamus, but he was defeated by Euric in 470 Euric then captured Arles and secured control of much of southern Gaul.
The Visigothic Kingdom was formally recognized when the Western emperor Julius Nepos (473-480) signed an alliance with Euric, granting him the lands south of the Loire and west of the Rhone in exchange for military service and for giving back the lands in Provence (including Arles and Marseilles).
January 476: The Visigothic Kingdom was formally recognized when the Western emperor Julius Nepos (473-480) signed an alliance with Euric, granting him the lands south of the Loire and west of the Rhone in exchange for military service and the lands in Provence (including Arles and Marseilles).
After Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus, Visigothic King Euric quickly captured Provence.
September 476: After Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus, Euric quickly recaptured Provence.
By 476, the Visigothic Kingdom had extended its rule to the Rhone and the Loire rivers.
January 477: By 476, he had extended his rule to the Rhone and the Loire rivers which comprised most of southern Gaul.
Were a series of wars between the Franks and the Visigoths during the reign of Frankish King Clovis I.
18.1.First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)
Was the first war of Frankish King Clovis against the Kingdom of the Visigoths.
January 492: By 491, Clovis had stabilized the former Roman territory and was eager to move against Alaric. Hence soon, he laid a siege to Nantes; the most northern city under Visigothic rule. Nantes resisted sixty days.
January 493: Alaric seemingly refused to give Clovis battle, thus leaving Clovis to besiege Poitiers, Saintes, and Bordeaux. Clovis might have captured Tours.
January 497: In 496, despite winning the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alemanni, the Franks took heavy casualties (and might have suffered from internal turmoil). Seeing the opportunity, Alaric quickly retook Bordeaux, Saintes, Poitiers, and Tours.
18.2.Second Franco-Visigothic war (507-508)
Was the first war of Frankish king Clovis against the Kingdom of the Visigoths.
November 507: Frankish king Clovis was able to recapture Bordeaux from the Visigoths before the end of 507.
January 508: Battle of Vouillé: Frankish conquest of Gallia Aquitania.
18.2.1.Battle of Vouillé
Was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, near Poitiers (Gaul), in the spring of 507 between the Franks, commanded by Clovis, and the Visigoths, commanded by Alaric II.
January 508: The new king of the Visigoths is tentatively accepted by his nobles, but is unable to hold Narbonne against the Burgundians.
January 508: In 507, Clovis, having gathered all the Salii Franks, with a contingent supplied by the Ripuarian Franks, and allied with the Burgundians, put together a considerable army which in the spring crossed the Loire and marched on Poitiers. Eventually, instead of retreating he decided to fight and was personally defeated and killed by the Frankish king Clovis at the battle of Vouillé. This marked the end of Visigothic rule in Gaul. The Visigoths, of their French kingdom, managed to defend only the Septimania, that is the region between the mouth of the Rhone and the Pyrenees.
Was a period of the Visigothic Kingdom when it was indirectly controlled by the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths.
January 511: In 510, General Ibbas, commander of the Ostrogothic contingent, in Barcino, had Amalaric (aged about nine) elected king of the Visigoths and he was temporarily regent in the name of his grandfather Theodoric, the real ruler through two officials: Ampelius and Liberius. Theodoric, for fifteen years was the real governor of the Visigothic kingdom.
January 527: In 526, on the death of his grandfather Theodoric, he reached an agreement with his cousin Athalaric that the Visigothic kingdom extended over both Spain and Septimania while Provence belonged to the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy.
Was a Frankish military expedition to conquer the region of Narbonne from the Visigoths.
January 532: Childebert I, King of Paris, invaded Septimania in 531 and defeated Amalaric, the Visigothic King, near Narbonne. Amalaric fled to Barcelona in an attempt to seek refuge.
February 532: Childebert was the Frankish king of Paris, while Amalaric was the Visigothic king of Hispania. The Kingdom of the Visigoths was a Western European power during the early Middle Ages, with Narbonne being a key city in their territory.
Was a Frankish military expedition to conquer the region of Béziers from the Visigoths.
January 533: In 532, the Kingdom of Metz, ruled by Theuderic I, annexed a small territory and some towns in the area of Béziers. The Franks, led by Theuderic I, had also penetrated Cantabria in that same year.
Were a series of wars initiated by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I to reconquer former territories of the Western Roman Empire. Although Justinian was not able to conquer back all these territories, he was succesful in conquering most of them.
22.1.Vandalic War
Was a war by Eastern Roman Emperor Juistinian I against the Vandalic Kingdom, which was conquered by the Romans.
January 534: The Gothic king Theudis, who probably took the opportunity of the collapse of Vandal authority to conquer Ceuta (Septem) across the Straits of Gibraltar in 533, possibly to keep it out of Byzantine hands.
22.2.Byzantine reconquest of Spania
Was a Byzantine military campaign against the Kingdom of the Visigoths to reconquer the Iberian Peninsula. The Byzantine were able to slowly occupy the southern coast of the Peninsula.
January 535: Ceuta was seized by an expedition dispatched by Belisarius.
August 552: Who, and when, exactly began negotiations with the Byzantines for assistance is debated by historians, as the primary sources are divided. What is known is that Justinian was summoned by one of the two contenders for the throne and prepared an army. Liberio's forces arrived at the mouths of the Guadalete or possibly Malaga.
January 555: After two years of war the Romans were able to wrestle the extreme southern coast of Spain from the Visigoths.
November 555: The Byzantines occupied many coastal cities in Baetica.
22.3.Bzyantine conquest of Septem
The Byzantines conquered Septem (the modern-day city of Ceuta).
January 543: The city of Ceuta fell into Byzantine hands in 542.
Was a Frankish military campaign in Navarre.
January 534: In 533 Frankish sub-king Childebert I, united his forces with those of his brother Clotaire I, invaded Navarre, occupied Pamplona and besieged Zaragoza.
February 534: In 533 the frankish king, Childebert I, united his forces with those of his brother Clotaire I, invaded Navarre, occupied Pamplona and besieged Zaragoza. Then Theudis ran to help the city, putting the Franks to flight who retreated towards the Pyrenees, where they were defeated.
The Vandals ceded the city of Ceuta to the Visigoths.
January 535: Theudis, who was the King of the Visigoths from 531 to 548, obtained the city of Ceuta from the Vandals.
Was a Frankish military campaign against the Visigoths.
January 536: Over the years, the Spanish Visigoths had made many incursions into Frankish territories and had taken lands. Clovis had retrieved them and even made further conquests of Gothic territories. Chlothar sent his eldest sons to reclaim lost territories. Although there was some success, for some unknown reason Gunthar, his second eldest, ended his campaign and returned home. Theudebert, the eldest, continued the war and took the strongholds of Dio-et-Valquières and Cabrières. Most of the lost Frankish lands were recovered.
A military campaign by Frankish subkings Clothar I and Childebert against the Visigoths in northern Spain.
January 542: In 541, the Frankish kings Clothar I and Childebert I attacked the Visigothic kingdom in Gascony, besieging Pamplona and Zaragoza for forty-nine days. However, they were ultimately repulsed by the Visigothic forces.
February 542: In 542, Gascony was invaded by the Frankish kings Clothar I and Childebert I, who besieged Pamplona and Zaragoza for 49 days. The territory eventually fell under the Kingdom of the Visigoths after the failed invasion.
In spring 542, Childebert and Chlothar, accompanied by three of his sons, led an army into Visigoth Hispania. They seized Pamplona and Zaragoza but were finally forced to abandon after conquering most of the country.
June 542: In spring 542, Childebert and Chlothar I, kings of the Kingdom of Soissons, led an army into Visigoth Hispania. They seized Pamplona and Zaragoza but were forced to abandon most of the country. They were ceded some lands beyond the Pyrénées by the Visigoth king Theudis.
July 542: In spring 542, the Frankish kings Childebert and Chlothar, along with their sons, invaded Visigoth Hispania, capturing Pamplona and Zaragoza. However, they were eventually forced to retreat. Due to the Visigoth king's army being occupied elsewhere, they were able to secure some territories beyond the Pyrénées.
Were the Visigothic campaigns in southern Spain that slowly led to the expulsion of the Byzantines from the region.
January 566: Conquests of Visigothic King Atanagild.
January 573: Medina-Sidonia was a key city in the region of Andalusia, Spain. Leovigildo was the Visigothic King of Hispania and ruled from 568 to 586. The reconquest of Asidona in 572 marked a significant victory for the Kingdom of the Visigoths in their efforts to expand their territory in the Iberian Peninsula.
January 587: Conquests of Visigothic King Leovigild.
January 601: By the year 600 the extent of Spania had diminished to little more than the coastal area between Málaga and Cartagena.
January 620: Visigothic king Gundemar conquered Málaga before 619.
January 622: As soon as he was elected kingdom of the Visigoths, Suintila resumed the fight against the Byzantines, who still occupied the Atlantic coastal area of the Betica province. First he brought the war in the south of the Byzantine domain, which went from Gibraltar to Cadiz, and then with a last campaign, which ended in 629 , he also managed to beat them in the Algarve and drive them back to North Africa, completing the reunification of the Iberian peninsula (except for some northern districts of the north, in Biscay and in the Pyrenees), the dream of the Visigothic kings who preceded him.
January 625: By 624, the entire province of Spain was in Visigothic hands, except the Balearic Islands.
28.1.Visigothic reconquest of Gades
Visigothic King Liuvigild conquered the city of Gades from the Byzantines.
January 572: Liuivigild succeeded in taking Medina-Sidonia.
28.2.Reconquest of Cordoba
Visigothic King Liuvigild conquered the city of Cordoba from the Byzantines.
January 573: In 572, King Leovigild of the Visigoths conquered Cordoba.
Was a joint campaign of the Frankish subkings against the Visigothic Kingdom.
January 570: In 569, the kings of the Franks of Austrasia, Sigebert I and Gontran of Burgundy, invaded Septimania and laid siege to Arles. The city was eventually attacked and taken by Gontran, who was the King of Orleans at the time.
Was a military campaign by Liuvigild, the King of the Visigoths, against the Kingdom of The Suebi.
January 570: In 569, his kingdom was attacked by Leovigildo, Arian king of the Visigoths, who had made an agreement with the Byzantines, to have freedom of action against the Swabians. Leovigildo, with great rapidity, took possession of Palencia, Zamora and León, but not of Astorga which put up a tenacious resistance.
Was a military campaign waged by Suebian king Miro against the Visigoths where he conquered Plasencia, Coria, Las Hurdes and valle de las Batuecas.
January 573: Between 571 and 572, taking advantage of the fact that Leovigild's Visigoths were at war against the Byzantines in the south of the Iberian peninsula, Miro expanded his kingdom by occupying the areas of Plasencia, Coria, Las Hurdes and the valley of las Batuecas.
Were the military campaigns of Visigothic King Liuvigild.
32.1.Suebian loss of Braganz
In 574 Visigothic King Liuvigild conquered southern Cantabria.
January 574: In 573, King Leovigild of the Visigoths conquered the province of Braganza and the valley of the river Sabor, expanding his kingdom's territory into the Suevi kingdom. This marked a significant military achievement for Leovigild in his campaign to unify the Iberian Peninsula under Visigothic rule.
32.2.Visigothic Conquest of Cantabria
In 574 Visigothic King Liuvigild conquered southern Cantabria.
January 575: In 574, King Liuvigild attacked Cantabria and managed to capture the south of the country, including the city of Amaya, where he established a Visigothic province called the Duchy of Cantabria.
32.3.Liuvigild conquers Orospeda
Liuvgild, king of the Visigoths, conquers the region of Orospeda.
January 578: Liuvgild, king of the Visigoths, conquered the region of Orospeda.
32.4.Visigothic conquest of Ourense
Was a military campaign by Liuvigild, the King of the Visigoths, against the Kingdom of The Suebi, resulting in the Visigothic conquest of the region of Ourense.
January 579: Miro was the King of the Suebi, a Germanic tribe in the Iberian Peninsula. The Kingdom of the Visigoths, led by King Leovigild, had been expanding and conquering territories, leading to Miro's submission and peace negotiations in 578. The cities of Porto and Braga were important strongholds in the region.
Were a series of unsuccesfull military campaigns in Septimania, in the Kingdom of the Visigoths, by Guntram, one of the sub-Kings of the Frankish Empire.
January 586: Frankish subking Guntram invaded Septimania.
February 586: Frankish subking Guntram invaded Septimania, but he was defeated by the Goths.
January 590: Frankish subking Guntram invaded Septimania.
February 590: Frankish subking Guntram invaded Septimania, but he was defeated by the Goths.
Liuvigild, the King of the Visigoths, invaded and annexed the Kingdom of the Suebi.
January 586: The king of the Visigoths, Leovigildo, used the deposition and assassination of Eborico as a pretext in order to intervene once again in the Suebic kingdom. He immediately invaded the Suebian territory and, according to what the chronicler Isidore affirms, he defeated them with the utmost rapidity with only two battles, at Portucale and at Bracara. The Swabian kingdom was subjugated and incorporated into the Visigothic kingdom, becoming a province of it.
Was a military campaign against the Visigothic Kingdom by Frankish subking Guntram in Septimania.
January 588: After the death of Leovigildo, which occurred during the second invasion of Gontrano, Recaredo, new king of the Visigoths, during 587, converted to the orthodox religion (Catholic), but despite the conversion of the Visigoths, Gontrano attacked them twice in Septimania but was defeated.
February 588: After the death of Leovigildo, which occurred during the second invasion of Gontrano, Recaredo, new king of the Visigoths, during 587, converted to the orthodox religion (Catholic), but despite the conversion of the Visigoths, Gontrano attacked them twice in Septimania but was defeated.
The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.
36.1.War between Theudebert and Theuderic
Was a war between two Teilreiche (polities emerging from the hereditary divisions of the Frankish Kingdom that repeatedly divided and reunited) of the Frankish Kingdom.
January 603: During their reigns, Theudebert and Theuderic campaigned successfully in Gascony, where they had established the Duchy of Gascony and brought the Basques to submission (602). This original Gascon conquest included lands south of the Pyrenees, namely Biscay and Gipuzkoa.
January 613: Biscay and Gipuzka conquered by Kingdom of the Visigoths.
Were the military campaigns of the Umayyad Caliphate in modern-day Spain, Portugal and France.
37.1.Umayyad conquest of Hispania
Was an Umayyad Caliphate invasion of the Iberian Peninsula from c. 710-780. The conquest resulted in the defeat of the Visigothic Kingdom and the establishment of the Umayyad Wilayah of Al-Andalus.
August 710: Landing of Tarif ibn Malik on the island of Tarifa.
January 711: The Muslims then took Ceuta (710), the stronghold which had been the focus of a constant struggle between the Visigoths and the Byzantines.
April 711: Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Berber Muslim commander, landed in Algeciras in 711 on orders from the Umayyad Caliphate. He led the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, known as the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
July 711: Battle of the Guadalete.
November 711: Toledo was conquered by Musa, almost without resistance, before the end of the year 711.
January 712: In 711, the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Tariq ibn Ziyad, continued its conquest along the Roman road, capturing the towns of Cáceres and Talavera la Vieja in present-day Spain. This marked the expansion of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
January 712: To join him, Tariq followed the Roman road from Linares (a city already controlled by the Muslims), through Despeñaperros and Consuegra (Consabura) to Toledo, leaving only a few troops in the south.
January 712: They then went on to take other cities in eastern Andalusia, such as Malaga and Granada in the south, and Martos, Jaen and Baeza in the north.
January 712: A new battle takes place near Écija, against the remnants of the royal army and reinforcements raised on Andalusia, which had been mustered thanks to the month-long resistance of Seville. But the Muslims prevail once again.
January 712: The well-armed Muslim forces then easily conquered, almost without resistance, Medina-Sidonia. Then they will besiege Seville, but it only falls after a month-long siege.
June 712: With the arrival of spring, the Muslim army advances along the Roman road that connects Toledo with the cities of Alcalá de Henares, Guadalajara, Sigüenza and Medinaceli, which are successively occupied.
June 712: In 712, Merida was under siege by the Umayyad Caliphate forces led by 'Abd-el-Aziz, son of Musa. The city surrendered on June 30, 712, marking the end of the siege and the territory coming under Umayyad control.
January 713: Tariq passed through Amaya and arrived in Astorga, capital of the Visigoth province Asturiensis.
January 713: The Arabs receive the submission of several cities of these two provinces, including Gijón on the coast of Asturias.
January 713: From Zaragoza, Tariq marched west, following the Roman road from Zaragoza to Astorga, and subdued the middle and upper reaches of the Ebro.
January 713: Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Berber general serving the Umayyad Caliphate, led the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 712. Calatayud was a strategic town he passed through on his way to capturing Zaragoza, a major city in the region.
January 713: In 712, the Umayyad Caliphate captured the administrative centers and strongholds of Clunia, Amaya, Leon, and Astorga in the Iberian Peninsula. These cities were important strategic locations during the Muslim conquest of the region.
April 713: Agreement between the Umayyads and the visigothic Count Teodomiro, governor of Orihuela and a vast surrounding territory. This agreement covers seven cities (Orihuela, Alicante, Elche, Mula, Hellín, Lorca, and a last unidentifiable one).
January 714: In 713, the Umayyad Caliphate occupied Cartagena, recognizing its strategic port significance. This decision was made during the rule of Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi, the Umayyad governor of Al-Andalus.
January 715: In 714, the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Abdelaziz, conquered the territories of Huelva, Faro, Beja, Évora, Santarem, and Lisbon in present-day Portugal and Spain. This campaign was part of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
January 715: Whole Galicia is under Umayyad control.
January 717: In 716, the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi, reached a surrender agreement with Pamplona, a city in the Kingdom of Asturias. This marked the beginning of Muslim rule in the region and the incorporation of Pamplona into the Umayyad Caliphate.
January 717: In 716, the Umayyad Caliphate conquered the cities of Huesca, Barbastro, Lleida, Tarragona, Barcelona, and Girona in the Iberian Peninsula. This marked the expansion of Muslim rule in the region and the subjugation of the Visigothic Kingdom.
37.1.1.Campaign of Septimania
Umayyad military campaign in Septimania (southern France).
January 720: Narbona conquered by Umayyad Caliphate.
January 721: Perpignan conquered by Umayyad Caliphate.
January 725: After the defeat of the Visigoths in 711, the Umayyad Caliphate continued its conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. In 724, Carcassonne, a key city in the Visigoth kingdom, fell to the Umayyad forces led by the Berber general Al-Samh. This marked the end of Visigothic resistance in the region.
January 726: The conquest of the Visigoth Kingdom, reduced to a rump state in Septimania, was ended by the Umayyads.
January 477: Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, Cantabria regained its independence from the rule of the Visigoths.
January 560: At the time of Carriarico the Swabian kingdom, taking advantage of the problems that the kingdom of the Visigoths had, was once again in a phase of expansion on the eastern and southern borders. He died in 559 and was succeeded by Ariamir.
January 691: Ceuta (Septem) was taken over by the Visigoths in 690, twenty years after the fall of Byzantine Africa. The Visigothic King at the time was King Egica, who expanded his kingdom's territory into North Africa.
Disestablishment
January 726: The conquest of the Visigoth Kingdom, reduced to a rump state in Septimania, was ended by the Umayyads.
Kingdom of the Visigoths
