The repoblación (Spanish for repopulation) was the ninth-century repopulating of a large region between the River Duero and the Cantabrian Cordillera which had been depopulated in the early years of the Reconquista. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The Douro or Duero ( Latin: Durius, Spanish: Duero, Portuguese: Douro, pron. Cantabria is a Spanish province and Autonomous community with Santander as its capital city The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest" Arabic: الاسترداد, "Recapturing" was a period
In the reign of Alfonso I of Asturias (739-757), through a series of successful military campaigns against the Moors, the Christians had retaken Galicia, La Rioja, and León and brought the population of the northern regions firmly under his control. Alfonso I (more rarely Alonso) called the Catholic ( el Católico) was the King of Asturias from 739 to his death in 757 Events By Place Europe Charles Martel drives the Moors out of France. Events By Place Asia March 9 — A major Earthquake strikes Palestine and Syria. The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Muslim (and earlier non-Muslim people of Berber and Arab descent Galicia (occasionally Galiza) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. La Rioja is a province and autonomous community of northern Spain. León is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. This left those provinces largely empty of human settlement and created a buffer zone between Moors and Christians. This region was called the "Desert of the Duero. " This zone was left untouched for almost a century while Alfonso's successors focused their energies on Vasconia and Galicia.
It was during the reign of Ordoño I of Asturias (850-866) that the repopulation of the uninhabited zone began. Ordoño I ( أردون بن إذفنش ( Urdūn ibn Iḍfunš: Ordoño of the Beni Alfons) 831– 27 May 866) became Events By Place Asia Emperor Montoku succeeds Emperor Nimmyō as Emperor of Japan. Events By Place Asia Fujiwara no Yoshifusa becomes regent of Japan, starting the Fujiwara regentship Ordoño began advancing to the south, repopulating the cities of Tui, Astorga, León, and Amaya. Tui is a town located in Galicia (Spain, in the province of Pontevedra. Astorga is a small city and Episcopal see, located in the province of León of Spain. History León was founded in the 1st century BC by the Roman legion Legio VI ''Victrix''. The people who descended the mountains of the north for the uninhabited valleys were called foramontanos: meaning "out of the mountains. " Among the routes the foramontanos took was that between Cabuérniga and Campo de Suso, which was followed as early as 824, when the new population of Brañosera received the oldest known fuero in Spanish history. Cabuérniga is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. Events By Place Europe Third Battle of Roncevaux Pass: The Basques and Banu Qasi defeat counts Eblo and Aznar Frankish Brañosera is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. Fuero ( Spanish) is a Spanish legal term and conceptThe word comes from Latin forum, an open space used as market tribunal
The desire for newer, more fertile agricultural zones in the river valleys of the Ebro and Duero was the chief driving factor in the emigrations. The Ebro ( Ebre) is Spain 's most voluminous river Its source is in Fontibre ( Cantabria) From this time the kingdom increasingly became known as that of León and in 910, on the death of Ordoño's son, Alfonso III, the kingdom was divided with Fruela II continuing to reign in the Asturias while his brothers García and Ordoño ruled in León and Galicia respectively. Events By Place Africa The caliphate of Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah (of the Fatimid dynasty is established after he enters the Alfonso III (c 848– 20 December 910 ? called the Great, was the king of Galicia and Asturias from 866 until his death Fruela II ( Froila II) (c 875–925 was the King of Asturias from the death of his father Alfonso III of Asturias, in 910 to his own death García I (c 871–914 was the king of León from 910 until his death and eldest of three succeeding sons of Alfonso III the Great by his wife Amulina (later Ordoño II ( أردون بن إذفنش ( Urdūn ibn Iḍfunš) (c The repoblación was then complete.
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- Félix de Aramburu y Zuloaga. The title art and architecture of the Repoblación has recently been applied to the creative works predominantly architectural, which were completed in the Christian "Repoblación de los montes asturianos." Revista de Asturias. 16 June 1879: A traditional account (in Spanish)
- "La Repoblación": Concise popular account (in Spanish)
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