Map Link: Europe and the Byzantine Empire about 1000:

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Map Link Europe and the Byzantine Empire about
1000 lthttp//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/
shepherd_1911/ shepherd-c-058-059.jpggt Map
Link The Byzantine Empire in 867 lthttp//upload
.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/ ByzantineE
mpire867AD4lightpurple.PNGgt
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860 Byzantines defeat Viking attack 867-86 Reign
of Basil I 894-927 Byzantines repeatedly defeat
attacks by Bulgars 907 Byzantines defeat prince
of Kiev
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966 Byzantines under John Tzmiskes (r. 969-76)
wage campaign against Bulgars 976-1025 Reign of
Basil II Bulgaroctonus (the Bulgar-slayer), who
completes subdual of Bulgars Between 930 and
970 Byzantines take most of Syria and Palestine
from Muslims 961 Byzantines take Crete from
Muslims
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Byzantine Renaissance Plato Aristotle Neoplaton
ism Symeon (the New Theologian, c.
949-1022) 1055-56 Reign of Empress Theodora.
After death of Theodora, Byzantine
Empire descends into civil war, while
various E. European states shake off
Byzantine control Saljuqs/Seljüks
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Map Link Byzantine Empire under Basil
II lthttp//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common
s/thumb/ a/a7/Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg/
1280px-Map_Byzantine_Empire_1025-en.svg.pnggt Map
Link Spain, 910-1492 lthttp//www.lib.utexas.edu
/maps/historical/shepherd_1911 /shepherd-c-082-08
3.jpggt
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1031 Collapse of the Umayyad caliphate
of Cordoba Late 11th c. Unification of most of
Christian Spain into kingdoms of Leon-Castile
and Aragon-Navarre 1085 Troops from
Leon-Castile take Toledo 1086 Berber Almoravids
invade Spain, defeat Christians 1139 Creation
of Kingdom of Portugal
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Compostela James the Elder (Santiago) Gregory
VII (p. 1073-85) Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile (r.
1065-1109) Council of Burgos, 1080
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Tribal/Stem Dukes of Saxony, Franconia, Lorraine,
Swabia and Bavaria
Map Link Empire of Otto the Great lthttp//www.t
henagain.info/WebChron/WestEurope/ OttonianEmpire
.pnggt
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911-18 Reign of Conrad of Franconia 919-36 Reign
of Henry the Fowler of Saxony 936-73 Reign of
Otto I (the Great), who soon brings Franconia
under his control 937 Otto seizes Burgundy 951
Otto conquers Lombardy 962 Otto crowned as
emperor
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973-83 Reign of Otto II Holy Roman
Empire 983-1002 Reign of Otto III Theophano G
erbert of Aurillac/Sylvester II (p.
999-1003) 1002-24 Reign of Henry II 1024-39
Reign of Conrad II of Franconia (Salian
Dynasty) ministeriales 1039-56 Reign of
Henry III
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986-87 Reign of Louis V 987-96 Reign of Hugh
Capet (Capetians) Ile de France
Map Link France about 1035 lthttp//www.lib.utex
as.edu/maps/historical/ shepherd_1911/shepherd-c-
061.jpggt
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996-1031 Reign of Robert II the Pious 1031-60
Reign of Henry I 1060-1108 Reign of Philip I
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Russian Primary Chronicle
Tale of Bygone Years/Laurentian
Chronicle Ascribed to Nestor, but
probably composite work Covers 852-1120,
compiled in c. 1113 and the years following
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Song of Roland
Chanson de geste (Old French Epic Poem) Earliest
version from c. 1088, in 12th c. manuscript copy
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Song of Roland
Basque attack on rearguard of Charlemagnes army
in Pyrenees in 778 Saracens (Muslims) Roland
Oliver Ganelon