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The last visigoth king was not Don Rodrigo!!

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Teodomiro, one of the visigoth dux, did not want to go to the battle of Guadalete (711), where his king, Don Rodrigo, found death and where the Visigothic army was annihilated by the Umayyad caliphate troops under General Tariq ibn Ziyad. Teodomiro, which until then, dominated a large visigoth province that stretched across the southeast of the Peninsula (the Carthaginian, with Valencia as the most important port city), decided after the military disaster to create its own kingdom.


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Darío Sanchez
Darío Sanchez
05 de jan. de 2020

Muy interesante el artículo. Aunque no está del todo claro la relación entre Tudmir (Teodomiro) y Atanagildo. Desde luego la filia paternal, puede ser, pero no es definitiva. Muy buen apunte

Gracias Javier!

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