The Liber maiolichinus [1] de gestis pisanorum illustribus ("Majorcan Book of the Deeds of the Illustrious Pisans") is a Medieval Latin epic chronicle in 3,500 hexameters, written between 1117 and 1125, detailing the Pisan-led joint military expedition of Italians, Catalans, and Occitans against the taifa of the Balearic Islands, in particular ...

The Balearic Islands have been selected to investigate these questions due to their long history of settlements and trade networks, which prompted their inclusion in many encyclopaedias.

Map showing the territorial division of the Balearic Archipelago during the period known as the Oriental Islands of al-Ándalus. In 707, the eldest son of Musa ibn Nusair, governor of the Umayyad caliphate in North Africa, landed on Majorca and plundered the island.

The Taifa of Majorca was a medieval Islamic taifa kingdom which existed from 1018 to 1203 in Majorca. It was founded by the Slavic warlord Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī. The first taifa lasted for about 50 years (1076-1116), first succumbing to a Christian crusade and …

Balearic Islands and the island of Mallorca itself, as contemporaries in the thirteenth and fourteenth century knew it as a large region that spanned from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean and included speakers of Aragonese, Catalan, Occitan, Latin, and France.

Dec 26, 2023 · The identification of the Balearic Islands in those papal bulls is entirely doubtful and has sparked a debate among specialists. Authors like Ramon Martí believe that it is an error and that, in reality, they should be located in continental river spaces with no direct connection to the archipelago.

The Balearic Islands have been selected to investigate these questions due to their long history of settlements and trade networks, which prompted their inclusion in many encyclopaedias. In addition, local archaeological and historical sources permit a …

The Crown’s expansion into the Balearic Islands, the Midi, Sardinia and Corsica, Sicily, and Greece during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries shaped the languages, cultures, and politics of the Mediterranean

Balearic Islands Late Roman and early Islamic erasThe Vandals under Genseric conquered the Islands sometime between 461 and 468 during their war on the Roman Empire. However, in late 533 or early 534,...

Apr 26, 2019 · Historians have often regarded these islands as peripheral additions to the Byzantine heartland of the Aegean and the Anatolian plateau; this article argues that, in fact, archaeological and...