1010s Disestablishments - 1011 Disestablishments, 1017 Disestablishments, 1018 Disestablishments, 1019 Disestablishments, Anuradhapura Kingdom (Paperback)

Chapters: 1011 Disestablishments, 1017 Disestablishments, 1018 Disestablishments, 1019 Disestablishments, Anuradhapura Kingdom, First Bulgarian Empire, County of Pallars, Kingdom of Nekor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The County of Pallars or Pallas was a de facto independent petty state, nominally within the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia during the ninth and tenth centuries, perhaps one of the Catalan counties, originally part of the Marca Hispanica in the ninth century. It was coterminous with the upper Noguera Pallaresa valley from the crest of the Pyrenees to the village of Tremp, comprising the Valle de Aneu, Valle de Cardos, Valle Ferrera, the right bank of the Noguera Ribagorzana, and the valley of the Flamicell. It roughly corresponded with the historic region of Catalonia called Pallars . Its chief city was Sort .The early history of Pallars, which was the easternmost extent of Basque settlement, is linked to that of its western neighbour, Ribagorza . Both territories were conquered from the Moors by William of Gellone, Duke of Toulouse, perhaps as early as 781, perhaps as late as the start of the ninth century. Together they formed a new province attached to Toulouse.A widely-circulated monkish account of 1078 from Alao contains the earliest foundation myth of any of the counties of the Hispanic March. Written at a time when the independence of Pallars and Ribagorza was threatened by the hegemony recently created by the personal union of the Kingdom of Navarre and Kingdom of Aragon (1076). It records that Count Bernard and Bishop Ato, both of Ribagorza and descended by tradition from Charlemagne, spearheaded the conquest and repopulation of Sobrarbe and Pallars respectively and that the bishop held ecclesiastical rule over all three counties.In real...