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Folio 2r of the Chronicle of 754. The text is in the Visigothic script.

The Chronicle of 754 (also called the Mozarabic Chronicle or Continuatio Hispana) is a Latin-language history in 95 sections,[1] written by an anonymous Mozarab (Christian) chronicler in Al-Andalus.[2] The Chronicle contains the earliest known reference in a Latin text to "Europeans" (europenses), whom it describes as having defeated the Saracens at the battle of Tours in 732.[3][4]

  1. ^ In some manuscripts the sections are apportioned into 13 chapters and an appendix. See the edition of Lopez Pereira 2009.
  2. ^ According to Christys p. 2 it was the last Latin chronicle written in al-Andalus.
  3. ^ Kwame Anthony Appiah (2012), "Misunderstanding cultures: Islam and the West", Philosophy and Social Criticism 38(4–5) 425–33.
  4. ^ Evert Van De Poll (2013), Europe and the Gospel: Past Influences, Current Developments, Mission Challenges (Versita), p. 55.

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Battle of Tours

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join between Tours and Poitiers. The number of troops in each army is not known. The Mozarabic Chronicle of 754, a Latin contemporary source which describes...

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Roderic

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his exile to Córdoba following the succession of King Egica in that year. According to the Chronicle of 754, Roderic "tumultuously [tumultuose] invaded...

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Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula

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Wittiza

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Berbers

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Egilona

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doubt the general portrayal of her role. The Christian Chronicle of 754 records that: "on the advice of Queen Egilona, wife of the late king Roderic, whom...

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Battle of Guadalete

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capture of the Visigothic capital of Toledo. The primary source for the battle is the Mozarabic Chronicle, which was written shortly after 754, probably...

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Chronicle

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Oppas

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Yazid I

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Charles Martel

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Kingdom of Asturias

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account of the events of the time, the Christian Chronicle of 754, makes no mention of the incident. However, as is told in the Rotensian Chronicle as well...

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Mauri

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to have been continued Mauri resistance for another 50 years. The Chronicle of 754 still mentions Mauri but by the High Middle Ages the endonym seems...

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Visigothic script

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Chronicle of 741

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the Chronicle of 754. It contains little Spanish history; the first 14 sections contain very brief mentions of the Visigothic kings up to the reign of Suintila...

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Storia de Mahometh

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precise dating of events is found in no other sources than the Chronicle of 754 and the Chronicle of 741. The Storia is most probably of Mozarabic origin...

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Chronology of the Reconquista

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begin the second Siege of Narbonne. 754 (Date unknown). The Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 is written. 756 15 May. The Emirate of Córdoba established under...

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