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| - 976 British Isles: Brian Boru :) , from the Dàl Cais clan, ascends the throne of Munster succeeding his brother Mahon/Mathgamain, killed by the Vikings, and retakes Limerick slaughtering the invaders. Western Europe: The Numidian pirate Yusf Garamma conquers the Balearic Islands. Balearic piracy :cool: will remain for a long time a major threat in the Western Mediterranen. Central-Eastern Europe: The king of Germany, Henry II of Bavaria, concedes the margraviate of Austria to Leopold I von Babenberg, a scion of the Leopoldingian family already powerful in Bavaria and Carinthia Middle East: Caucasus:
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| - 976 British Isles: Brian Boru :) , from the Dàl Cais clan, ascends the throne of Munster succeeding his brother Mahon/Mathgamain, killed by the Vikings, and retakes Limerick slaughtering the invaders. Western Europe: The Numidian pirate Yusf Garamma conquers the Balearic Islands. Balearic piracy :cool: will remain for a long time a major threat in the Western Mediterranen. Central-Eastern Europe: The king of Germany, Henry II of Bavaria, concedes the margraviate of Austria to Leopold I von Babenberg, a scion of the Leopoldingian family already powerful in Bavaria and Carinthia Middle East: The Fatimids fail in their attept to retake Jerusalem, but manage to take Damascus :(977 North Africa: Djirva (*OTL Djerba) resists an Omayyad assault Middle East: The Fatimids defeat the Byzantine army :( at the battle of Tiberias (Galilee) Central Asia: The Turkic ghulam (slave-soldier) Subaktagin founds at Ghazni (Afghanistan) the Waliist (*"Papist") Sunni dynasty of the Ghaznavids, at first vassals of the Samanid Empire. 978 British Isles: King Edward the Martyr is murdered by his step-mother Elfrida, who enforces her own son, 10 years old Ethelred II, as king of England Western Europe: Rodrigo VIII the Maurian, king of Spain, is defeated and killed at Orense together with count Peter of Portugal when he tries to subdue Gallastria (*OTL Galicia and Asturias), ruled by the aged but vigorous Einar II the Victorious. In Toledo Rodrigo VIII is succeeded by his son Augustin I. North Africa: Berghawata power in southern Mauretania (*OTL Morocco) is crushed by the Tarkhanids of Numidia: the heretics are annihilated, their Temple razed. Middle East: The Fatimids smash the Buyids in southern Iraq and Khuzistan at the battle of al-Qusayr, repulsing them beyond the Zagros mountains. Far East: The kingdom of Wuyue (Hangzhou) submits to the Song Chinese empire British Isles: Anglo-Saxon England is able to vassalize Glamorgan and Deheubarth (southern wales); Gwynedd, though, resists and keeps itself free of any English presence Western Europe: Civil war rages in France as king Arnulf II comes of age and tries to gain effective rule from his maternal uncles, the Vermandois brothers. In the end Arnulf is victorious with the help of king William of Burgundy, but Aquitaine establishes complete independence under William IV (I as king) of Poitou Byzantine Empire: The empire is shaken by revolts on religious (the Bogomils in Bulgaria) or taxation (Thrace, Asia Minor) issues, furtherly worsened by the reapperance of Bardas Phokas, who sets up and independent Cappadocian state in Caesarea/Mazhak (*OTL Kayseri) with help from the local “kleisuriotes” (Slavo-Magyar border guards). Basileus Simeon, increasingly ill and isolated :( , cannot adequately face this multiple threat Middle East: The Fatimidis progressively maul the remaining strength of the Abbasid Caliphate in Iraq 979 North Africa: The Western Byzantine strategos of Ifrigia (*later Punia, OTL Tunisia) John Trinacriotes rebels against emperor Theophylactus in Bardapolis (*OTL Tunis), but is quickly overrun and killed at the battle of Gavissa (*OTL Gafsa) by the Numidian Tarkhanid army, intervened with Papal approval in favor of Theophylactus. Caucasus: Foundation of the principality of Tashir-Dzoraget in the Lori region of northern Armenia, under a collateral branch of the Bagratid family Middle East: The Hamdanids slay the Turkish Guard in Samarra and assume direct protection of the Abbasid Caliph and the Waliate (*TTL's Sunni “Papacy”) in Baghdad. Far East: The Song fail in the attempt to retake the northern Chinese provinces still held by the Khitan/Liao empire. 979-983 Southern Europe: In Milan the unpopular archbishop Landolfo II da Carcano is kicked out by an angry mob :D ; four years after he reenters the city as the de facto master thanks to his connections with the “capitanei” (major feudatories) :(British Isles: The High King of Ireland Malachy II of Meath, in alliance with Brian Boru of Munster, takes Dublin and vassalizes the local Vikings Western Europe: Siegfried of Luxemburg and his brother Frederick of Lorraine invade France in the height of the civil war, raiding up to the walls of Paris :mad: . East Africa: Alì I ibn Husain, from the Persian Twelver Shi'ite Shirazi dynasty, founds the Zeng Empire on the island of Kilwa off Tanganika. India: Chatta Deva founds the later Kadamba kingdom at Banavasi (Karnataka) under Chalukya tutelage. SE Asia: The Vietnamese Le Hoan repels a Song Chinese invasion. ca. 980 Central-Eastern Europe: Mieszko I of Poland wrests Lesser Poland from Bohemia. North Africa: The anaftological heresy :confused: (denial of the personal character of the Holy Ghost) spreads in North Africa, diffused by bishop Anthony of Tebessa; it will be soon condemned by both Rome and Byzantium, but it will also remain a major character of North African Christianity :cool: East Africa: The Ethiopian Jewish kingdom of Beta Yisrael is crushed after a devastating war against the remains of the Coptic Axumite empire, now led by the Zagwe clan.
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