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| - 951 Southern Europe: John Curcuas dies in Messina; he is succeeded as Western Byzantine emperor by his nephew Theophilus. Otto I of Saxony stages an expedition to Lombardy, retaking Trento on the way, but Berengar’s forces bottle him up in the Adige valley between Trento and Verona and force him to withdraw. Count Sigifred of Lucca and his young son, Adalbert Atto, powerful vassals of margrave Guido of Tuscany from an ancient Lombard family, complete the building of the fortress of Canossa in the Apennines near Reggio Emilia: their descendants will take their name from the castle. Arabia: The Ismaili Fatimids of Caliph al-Mansur annihilate the Qarmatian power in central Arabia in the battle of the Ten Thousand Jinns ;) (in the al-Hasa region); the last Qarmatian Caliph, Ahmad Abu Mansur, is killed on the battlefield. The remaining Qarmatians take refuge in their last strongholds, Palestine and the northern deserts of Syria and Jordan. Far East: The Later Zhou take over the Chinese throne of Kaifeng from the Late Han. Southern Europe: Otto I of Saxony strikes a deal of alliance with the king Rodoald of Romancia (*OTL eastern Switzerland plus Valtellina), marrying his sister Hedwige Northern Europe: At the Diet of Augsburg Otto I of Saxony enforces his system of the count-bishops :cool: as temporal rulers of many important territories. They, having no sons, pose less a threat than the lay feudatories Western Europe: The Duke of Lorraine Conrad I the Red rises in rebellion against his father-in-law Otto I of Saxony in support of an invasion led by Adalbert of Burgundy; Otto quickly intervenes and overcomes the enemies at the battle of the Falkenberg, then appoints his brother, Archbishop Bruno of Cologne, as duke of Lorraine British Isles: Edwy and Edgar, grandsons of the deceased king Athelstan, land in England and inspire the rebellion :) against the crule rule of Erik I Bloodaxe, who is thereafter defeated and killed :D at the battle of Burton Hill; Viking power is abruptly ended throughout England, whose capital comes back from York/Jorvik to Winchester. Liberated Northumbria is made a powerful and autonomous earldom under the Eadulfsons of Bamburgh Western Europe: Rodrigo VII of Spain dies without heirs, thus extinguishing the Earlier (or Visigothic) Rodriguez dynasty: civil war, feudal anarchy and fragmentation :confused: ensue. Southern Europe: Alberic II, king of Italy and ruler of Rome, dies after extorting from the Papacy a solemn oath of electing his young son Octavian, the new king of Italy, as Pope :eek: upon the death of Agapithus II; central Italy quickly crumbles into feudal anarchy. Despite showing little interest for Italy, basileus Simeon I the Bulgarian allows Conrad, son of the Marozia and Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy (both deceased by now), raised in Constantinople ;) , to land in southern Italy and overthrow Theophilus Curcuas, but the campaign is only a partial success, with Conrad conquering Puglia and ruling it as katepano and duke. Meantime Simeon feels secure enough to abandon Constantinople (not before having slain some dozen nobles of dubious loyalty :D ) and stages a most successful campaign in the Sklaviniai (*OTL Balkans), where the Magyars are routed on the Morava river and all the Serbs and Vlachs recognize Byzantine-Bulgarian overlordship up to Bosnia and the Danube Arabia, Middle East: The Fatimids repel at Gebel Ismail an Abbasid invasion instigated by the Wali (*TTL's Sunni "Pope") of Baghdad Abdurrahman III and crush at Bahrain the last Qarmatian stronghold in Arabia. Northern Europe, Central-Eastern Europe: The Magyars, called by Berengar, ravage southern Germany until they are trounced :D by Otto I of Saxony at the Lech (where Henry I of Bavaria and Carinthia, Otto’s brother, dies in battle) and at Augsburg: in this second battle the northern Magyars of Slovakia are destroyed and their kingdom is annexed by Arpadid Hungary. Meantime emperor Berengar of Ivrea invades and overruns Romancia (*OTL eastern Switzerland plus Valtellina), where he kills king Rodoald :mad: , then advances to Swabia and Franconia. Otto cuts his way back :cool: and finally kills him at the battle of Gundelsheim on the Neckar river. Having Romancia no more rulers upon the extinction of the main Everardingian :confused: branch, Otto assumes the Romancian crown himself and divides local power between the Abbey of St. Gall in the north and the bishops of Coira in the south. Middle East: The Buyids wrest control over Khuzistan and western Persia/Iran from the Samanid Empire.
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