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illustratus · 18 days

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digitalfossils · 1 month

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#Hispania #Airlines #80s #logo #aesthetic

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mapsontheweb · 10 months

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Barbarian invasions in Hispania after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

#maps #hispania #roman empire #barbarians

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docpiplup · 2 months

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If anyone wants to read new historical fiction related to the Abd al-Aziz chapter of the Al Andalus. Historical Figures book, recently a novel has been published. This novel is Egilona, Reina de Hispania (Egilona, Queen of Hispania), writen by José Soto Chica. The bulk of the story is based on the texts of the Mozarabic Chronicle and Arabic sources such as the Fath al-Andalus codex, the anonymous Ajbar Maimu'a or the works of the historian Al-Maqqari and the caliph Al-Hakam. In fact, all chapters begin with a fragment of these writings.

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Egilona, the last queen of Hispania, a powerful woman between two cultures, between two eras, the Gothic and the Arab, fascinates us in this memorable historical novel.

Don Rodrigo, Duke of Bética, returns to his lands after being forced to pay homage to the new king of Hispania, Witiza, the murderer of his brother Favila. Now the smart thing is to lower his head; There will be time for revenge. Near Córdoba, he stops to rest in a noble house and there he sees for the first time Egilona, a fifteen-year-old girl with reddish hair, white skin and amber eyes, who that same night will become his wife.

Nine years later, in 711, near Tarifa, the hosts of the now king Rodrigo prepared to prevent the entry into Hispania of the new conqueror of the world: the Umayyad empire. In command of his army is Tariq ibn Ziyad, a freedman whom his patron Musa ibn Nusayr, vali of Africa in the new order of the caliphate, has sent on a raid. With this old soldier, ugly, cross-eyed and red-haired, hardened in a thousand battles, travels his concubine, Umm Hakim, a fascinating young woman, with doe eyes and magical knowledge, and Abd al-Aziz, one of Musa's sons. In and out, that's the order. But, in the heat of battle, Abd al-Aziz kills Rodrigo and sets his sights on Egilona, the most beautiful and haughty woman he has ever seen.

Woe to his eyes! They have just begun a story in which the sorceress and the queen will cross paths to end an empire, and for which Egilona, queen of Hispania, will be remembered "as the hand, the mind, the powerful spirit that sowed the "seed of a new era."

Some comments from the author of the novel about the historical figure of Egilona, the historical setting, the conquest and her marriage to Abd al-Aziz, from this interview:

"Events that have usually been told very poorly"

"She was a transitional character who was everything with the Visigoths and is everything again in the new world of the Muslims, but a lot of nonsense has been written about her"

"I have opted for an intermediate solution in the novel"

"After Rodrigo's death it stands as a symbol of resistance, but after the second defeat of the Visigoths in Écija I made Al-Aziz capture it. Let's think about Aztec Mexico: the Spanish were a very small force and they relied on the nobility. The Arabs did the same. This marriage was not the exception, but the norm, and there are the examples of Teodomiro's daughter or Witiza's granddaughters. It was a time when collaboration was needed"

"If I put on my historian's suit and limit myself to what the sources say, I am tied hand and foot. Now, a novelist does have licenses and I imagine that story of hate and love with Al-Aziz" "But I think the result is very coherent: it is a novel by a historian who specializes in the period and which, literary speaking, proposes psychological solutions to the 8th century."

"For me, her forgetfulness is intentional from her own time: for those who resisted in Asturias she was a traitor; for the Arabs, she was responsible for the perfect Muslim warrior falling into the conspiracy. She was guilty for going over to the enemy or subverting the order, and this has greatly influenced nineteenth-century and current Spanish historiography"

"This novel, at the level of people who seek to learn history with fiction, is the story of the Islamic conquest of Hispania based on what we really know, which has changed a lot in the last twenty years"

"It's not about good ones and bad ones, but about people like us who have to survive by accepting that the world has changed or by rebelling against it."

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basil-bird · 11 months

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the temple of isis at baelo claudia, spain (c. 2nd century BCE) (pictured by me)

“Baelo Claudia was an ancient Roman town of Hispania, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) outside of Tarifa, near the village of Bolonia, in southern Spain. Lying on the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar, the town was originally a fishing village and trade link when it was settled some 2,000 years ago. Although prosperous at the time of Emperor Claudius, it went into a decline hastened by earthquakes and was abandoned by the 6th century.”

#basil bird takes spain #ancient rome #tagamemnon #hispania #baelo claudia #arch

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whencyclopedia · 1 year

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Roman Hispania c. 125 CE

A map illustrating the scope and organization of the Roman provinces in Hispania (present-day Spain and Portugal.) Roman Spain was one of the first provinces beyond Italy; it took two centuries to conquer fully (starting with an invasion against the Carthaginians in 206 BCE) and remained under Roman rule far longer than most of the Western Empire (northeastern Spain was still under nominal Roman control c. 474 CE.) Hispania was among the wealthiest and most Romanized of the empire’s provinces for over 500 years.

#RomanEmpire #Hispania #IberianPeninsula

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just-late-roman-republic-things · 9 months

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I gotta hand it to the ancient Iberians. Invaded by Rome in 218 BCE. Beat the crap out of the invaders for the next two hundred years. Harassed them so badly Romans stopped registering for the army just to avoid going to Iberia. Converted Romans who did show up into yet more Iberians. Preserved the Basque language despite 600 years of Roman colonialism. Ikaragarria (awesome).

#get it my dudes #iberia #hispania #ancient rome #jlrrt speaks

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illustratus · 1 year

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Mosaico de los Amores, Spain

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kemetic-dreams · 1 year

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Why is Spain called Spain (Espagna)?

The ancient Phoenicians who arrived to trade with the peoples of the peninsula called it Sphaniam (land of rabbits), the Greeks that arrived to trade with our city states called it Iberia for the river Iber who is a plentiful large river with a large delta at the end. The Greeks eventually adopted Spania for the place and Iberians for the people. Later the Romans took the name into Latin Hispania. Hispania became España in Spanish and Espagne in French, Espagne became Spain imported to English.

#sphaniam #espana #espagne #spain #english #french #hispania #romans #latin #greeks #helen #iberia #iber #phoenicians #europeans #western european #western europe #europe #europa

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mapsontheweb · 2 years

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Hispania in the early 5th century. Lands in pink were ruled by the Alans, an Iranian tribe who had migrated from the Caucasus.

#maps #hispania #iberia #5th century

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castilestateofmind · 1 year

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"The Death of Viriathus Leader of the Lusitanians".

- Jose de Madrazo, Prado Museum.

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docpiplup · 6 months

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Now that Hallowen is near, I have decided to share an interesting book I have been reading in these weeks, its title is Toledo: La Ciudad de los Muertos (Toledo: The City of the Dead), writen by Ventura Leblic García. The topic is to divulge about the stories and death rites of people of the several cultures and religions which have inhabitated the city throughout history. I'll be sharing scans of the pages of the book through posts here on Tumblr if anyone it's curious about the topic. Here's the first set:

PART 1

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Toledo: The City of the Dead

Ventura Leblic García

Covarrubias Editions

Backcover

Toledo is a city that the living and the dead share. It is a great historical necropolis. But do we really know our "neighbors"? Do we know where they "live"? Do we know the cultural and social environment in which their lives were spent? Do we know the culture of death in the different civilizations that inhabited the crag of Toledo? Carpetans, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims, Jews, Christians... their rites around death, beliefs, customs, the evolution of cemetery spaces... It is time to know what history has left us, trying to unravel the truth in the uncertainty of a tomb.

Toledo: The City of the Dead

Ventura Leblic García

Covarrubias Editions 2013

INDEX

Introduction. Page 9

Chapter I. Funerary practices in ancient times. Page 12

The indigenous people. Page 14

Chapter II. The cemetery spaces outside the walls of Toledo. Page 19

Roman cemeteries. Page 19

The early Christian cemetery. Page 24

Visigoth times. Page 31

Toledo's maqbara. The Muslim cemetery. Page 38

Toledo's Mozarabic cemeteries. Page 47

The Jewish cemetery. Page 50

Chapter III. The interior of churches as cementary spaces. Page 63

Chapter IV. Parish cemeteries. Page 70

Chapter V. The cemetery and the municipal cemetery. Page 103

Chapter VI. Royal burials in Toledo. Page 112

The New Kings Chapel. Page 136

New chapel. Page 139

Royal funerals in Toledo. Page 144

Chapter VII. Tombs of royal lineage in Toledo. Page 149

Chapter VIII. Other tombs in Toledo of people who made history. Page 170

The tomb of Doménikos Theotokópoulos "El Greco". Page 178

A frustrated pantheon of illustrious men. Page 182

Don Álvaro de Luna and Doña Juana de Pimentel. Page 188

An empty tomb for four hundred years. Page 191

The tomb of Cardinal Mendoza. Page 194

Francisco de Pisa. Page 196

The flying priest. Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão. Page 197

Chapter IX. The Cistercian monastery of Monte Sión. A case of pantheon foundation. Page 201

The graves. Page 204

Chapter X. Bodies of saints and blesseds venerated in Toledo. Page 215

Chapter XI. Those who did not return. Page 232

Saint Ildefonso of Toledo. Page 232

Grave of Alfonso VI, king of Castile. Page 237

Alfonso X the Wise. Page 239

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. Page 240

Queen Joanna I of Castile. Page 242

Alfonso III de Fonseca, archbishop of Toledo. Page 243

Juan de Padilla. Page 244

Francisco de Rojas. Page 248

Cardinal Lorenzana. Page 249

Bibliography. Page 251

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aembarcar · 9 months

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👕👕👕 PRÓXIMAMENTE.........

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romegreeceart · 2 years

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Sea-centaur and a nereid

Roman villa, Torre vieja de Magazos

2nd / 3rd century CE

marble

Museo de Ávila

Source: Américo Toledano, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#centaur #nereid #Roman #marble #statue #2nd century CE #3rd century CE #Roman villa #Hispania #Spanish museums

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histogamer · 11 months

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Map of the Roman Empire, At the period of its greatest extent about the year A.D. 107. Engraved to illustrate Mitchell's Ancient Geography. Entered ... 1875 by S. Augustus Mitchell, . ... Washington.

Source: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries

#maps #political maps #geography #ancient history #david rumsey #map collection #roman empire #britannia #hispania #north africa #itallia #gaul #asia minor #greece #egypt #hadrian

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