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Aragon.
Navarre.
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Joan.
Philip I.
Charles I.
Philip II.
Philip III.
John II.
Ferdinand II.
Eleonora.
Francis.
Catherine.
John.
Henry.
Joanna III.
Anthony.
Henry.
Saracens.
Ifinael.
Abilhuflan.
Abouabdalla.
Spain.
Kings of Spain.
Years.
Monarchs.
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1621
1665
1700
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House of Austria,
Charles I. (V.).
Philip II.
Philip III.
Philip IV.
Charles II.
House of Bourbon.
Philip V.
Louis I.
Philip V. again.
Ferdinand VI.
Charles III.
Charles IV.
Ferdinand VII.
1.737. Don Pelagio died in 737 j and foon after his death
fuch inteftine diviiions broke out among the Moors, as
greatly favoured the increafe of the Chriftian power.
In 745 Don Alonfo the Catholic, fon in law to Pela¬
gio, in conjunftion with his brother Froila, pafled the
mountains, and fell upon the northern part of Gallicia j
^ and meeting with little refiftance, he recovered almoft
f quefb the whole of that province in a fingle campaign. Next
«|ieChri-year he invaded the plains of Leon and Caftile 5 and
■ *' before the Moors could affemble any force to oppofe
him, he reduced Aftorgas, Leon, Saldagna, Montes de
Oca, Amaya, Alava, and all the country at the foot of
the mountains. The year following he pufhed his con¬
quers as far as the borders of Portugal, and the next
campaign ravaged the country as far as Caftile. Being
fenfible, however, that he was yet unable to defend the
flat country which he had conquered, he laid the whole
of it wafte, obliged the Chriftians to retire to the
mountains, and carried off all the Moors for Haves.
Thus fecured by a defert frontier, he met with no in¬
terruption for fome years j during which time, as his
kingdom advanced in ftrength, he allowed his fubjedls
gradually to occupy part of the flat country, and to re¬
build Leon and Aflorgas, which he had demoliftied.
He died in 758, and was fucceeded by his fon Don ^5
Froila. In his time Abdoulrahman, the khaliflf’s vice-The‘Sara-
roy in Spain, threw off the yoke, and rendered him-censm
felf independent, fixing the feat of his government atsP,amtlirow
Cordova. Thus the inteftine divifions among the Moors^f
were compoled j yet their fuccefs feems to have beenliffs.
little better than before ; for, foon after, Froila encoun- An. 75S.
tered the Moors with fuch fuccefs, that 54,000 of them
were killed on the fpot, and their general taken prifoner.
Soon after he built the city of Oviedo, which he made
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