Spain: The Caliphate of Córdoba (TRIH ep 281)
929 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the rise, golden age and collapse of the Caliphate of Córdoba. They open with the 711 crossing of Tariq bin Ziyad and the collapse of the Visigothic kingdom under Roderic, then follow the survival of an Umayyad prince, Abd al-Rahman I, who founds the emirate in al-Andalus. Tom outlines the growth of Córdoba into a wealthy cosmopolitan capital — the Mezquita, baths, vast libraries and international trade — and the transformative reign of Abd al-Rahman II...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 929
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- William the Conqueror (1028)