Spanish march
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border territory in the Kingdom of the Franks
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- march
- Part of
- Caliphate of Córdoba
- Country
- Carolingian Empire
- Shares border with
- Upper March
- Image
- Condados de la Marca.svg
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- end time
- 0987-00-00
- located in/on physical feature
- Iberian Peninsula
- time period
- Reconquista
- start time
- 0800-00-00
- replaces
- Kingdom of Toledo
- replaced by
- County of Sobrarbe
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
The Spanish March and surrounding regions.
The Spanish March or Hispanic March was a march or military buffer zone established after the failed Umayyad invasion of Francia. It was established in c. 795 by Charlemagne in the eastern Pyrenees and nearby areas, to protect the new territories of the Christian Carolingian Empire—the Duchy of Gascony, the Duchy of Aquitaine, and Septimania—from the Muslim Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba in al-Andalus.
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