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🔴AHORA: Inundaciones y lluvias extremas en Emiratos Árabes Unidos

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Mercosur y Emiratos Árabes Unidos avanzan hacia un acuerdo de libre comercio

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FUNDACION EMERITO Lo que Pablo Motos no preguntó a Victoria Federica en El Hormiguero, por @ErnestoEkaizer Otro cachondeo. Un rey emérito de España con fundación en Emiratos para no pagar a Hacienda y ocultar a los herederos. Video publicado por Jesús Cintora @JesusCintora

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Emiratos Árabes se prepara para su primera cosecha de trigo

Emiratos Árabes se prepara para su primera cosecha de trigo La necesidad de tener alimentos que broten de su suelo y mermar la importación llevó a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos a sembrar su propia semilla de trigo. Actualmente sobre las arenas del desierto de Sarja, ocho círculos verdes destacan como parte del programa de cultivo de trigo de esta región. Pues el fin de esto es mejorar la seguridad…

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10th part of the bookscans of Al Andalus. Historical Figures, here's the previous part

The Andalusian Vikings

The reign of Abd al-Rahman II was rich in events and one of them, that spread terror on the Andalusian coasts, was the arrival of the Vikings or Normans, whom the Muslims called machus, a word that could translate as “idolaters” or “fire worshipers.”

Both Arab and Christian sources record, in their chronicles, the arrival to the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula from those fearsome pirates, who devastated, robbed and killed, wreaking havoc among the peaceful people and whose sad memory remained for a long time.

In the year 844 these pirates made an appearance on the Atlantic coast of the Peninsula. It was the first time they had come there, although the year before, They had taken the French city of Nantes, and going up the Loire they had entered the Gironde River, reaching Bordeaux and Toulouse, through the Garonne.

One of their fleets moved south and the Normans landed in the coast of Asturias, very close to the city of Gijón. Then there was another disembark in Galicia, at the height, more or less, of A Coruña. There they were rejected and followed the direction of the Muslim Atlantic coasts.

On August 20, 844, fifty-four Viking ships, accompanied by a similar number of other smaller vessels were seen in the estuary of the Tagus River causing natural alarm, and even more so when it was learned that they had landed in Lisbon. The Muslims of the city prepared the defense, and there were three bloody skirmishes, in which there were many dead on both sides. Thirteen days later, the Machus decided reembark and put to sea. During this time, the Lisbon governor, Wahb Allah ben Hazm, warned Abd al-Rahman II of the danger ahead, and the emir immediately sent orders to the walis of the maritime regions so that they were on notice. The Normans continued south looking for another river that they could go up, since it was the route they used to go into dry land.

And before them appeared the mouth of the Guadalquivir river, a new opportunity to proceed with the usual looting. A part of the Norman fleet diverted and landed near Medina Sidonia. They proceeded to explore the interior at some length and took the port of Cádiz. The ships who went up the Guadalquivir headed towards Seville. Between city and the sea there is a swampy region, in which there are good pastures. Since ancient times, and also in Muslim times, they were raised studs of very good horses. Back then, between the two arms that formed the Guadalquivir, there was an island, called Captel and which today is known as Minor Island. There the Vikings made their first stop and supplied themselves of horses. Things seemed to be going well. The next day, the 30th September 844,

Four ships reached the town of Coría del Río, located about four kilometers away from Captel. They disembarked, proceeded to total looting and murdered the population, in one of their typical performances.

Three days later the Norman fleet. continued upriver and before the frightened eyes of the Sevillians, the black sails of the pirate ships appeared. The sad fate of the inhabitants of Coria del Río was known, and the terrified citizens rushed to organize themselves to resist, but the governor, no more scared than the others!, had fled towards Carmona. Lacking direction, they did what they could, sending to meet the machus' fleet some ships, which were received with a shower of incendiary arrows and they all burned without any possibility of defense.

Seville was evacuated as quickly as possible, although not everyone left the city, some because of their health status, others because they are elderly and others because they did not want to abandon their property, a useless precaution, since the Vikings, landing in Seville, killed them all. Women and children were taken captive, while a horrific looting of the city was carried out, which lasted seven days.

So much loot was obtained that the Norman ships were overcrowded, so much of wealth and of frightened Muslim women who did not know what was going to happen to them in the hands of those barbarians from the north. They decided to return to base that they had established in Captel and disembark everything they had achieved, it was impossible to continue sailing with such an abundant and precious cargo.

They immediately returned to Seville, in case there was anything that had escaped their first looting, but the city was deserted. There were only a few old people left who did not could help themselves and took refuge in a mosque. But not even the protection of sacred space was of no use to them: they all fell under the merciless swords of the vikings. Since then this mosque was known as the "Mosque of the Martyrs".

The Normans, after this raid, drew up a plan of action. The Guadalquivir, from the point they had reached, was difficult to navigate and trying to reach the rich Córdoba by river was almost impossible. So they proceeded to send horse parties to the north and west of Seville.

In Córdoba the fear was such at the possible arrival of the Vikings, that the entire population was placed at the disposal of the emir. Abd al-Rhaman II had not lost time. He called for general mobilization, both in the interior provinces of Al Andalus and in the Marches and when he received the first news of the misfortuned events in Seville, he sent an army under the command of his best general, towards the outskirts of the capital of Seville.

They took up positions in Aljarafe, very close to Seville, while all the troops arriving in Córdoba, from the general mobilization, were headed there, under the command of the eunuch Nasr.

It didn't take long for the Cordoban troops to clash with the Viking contingents that suffered a serious defeat. But still the Norman pirates were not completely defeated

and on November 11, 844, in Tablada, where the city airport is nowadays located, the final battle took place. The Normans had landed en masse to confront the emiral troops, but they fought with such bravery that they killed more than a thousand men, taking prisoners to another four hundred. The few Vikings who survived rushed to take refuge in their ships, while they saw how their four hundred companions captives, their throats were beheaded, one by one, before their eyes. With so much Norman mortality, about thirty ships were left empty, without people who could man them and they were burned immediately, as if to ward off their presence in those land. The Muslims entered Seville and its people returned when it was certain that the danger had passed.

The fear had been so great, the massacres of the Normans so mercilessly, that in the butcher shops of the Sevillian souk, the remains of the Muslim victory over the northern pirates were shown as trophies. Normans hands, feet, legs, were showed with pride, while in the palm trees of Tablada many Viking heads were left hanging. The defeat of the Normans was communicated to the entire Peninsula, and even Abd al-Rahman II sent news of it to North Africa. What remained of the pirate fleet put to sea and headed towards the French Aquitaine, but not before attempting other landings in Niebla, in the Algarve and in Lisbon. The following year, however, they would ravage the lands of Bordeaux and Saintonge, while other ships made a raid along the coast of Asilah in Morocco.

Up to this point this could be the story of the Norman adventures in the 9th century along the Andalusian coasts, but the story continues in an amazing way. The hasty flight of the Machus after the defeat of Tablada did not allow some groups of Normans to be collected, whichwere left on land and without any possibility of reembarking. Alone and without possible help, these groups dispersed through Carmona and Morón. Their presence filled the inhabitants of these lands with dread, although its potential for attack was extremely small, and the Umayyad general Muhammad ben Rustum, one of Tablada's heroes, went out to fight them. They had no more choice but to surrender, in exchange for saving one's life, which was no small thing, after their barbaric actions.

What to do in a strange land, so far from the Nordic mists and the women with blonde hair? The surviving Normans opted for a practical solution. Those men who only knew how to navigate, kill and loot, they were not going to join the emir's military forces, no, not at all. They converted to Islam, changed Thor and Odin for Allah and Muhammad, and in the lower valley of the Gudalquivir they dedicated themselves to cattle raising, and to milk industry! Those muladíes, converted into authentic Andalusians, made cheeses of extraordinary quality, greatly appreciated by consumers from Seville that were even sent to Córdoba.

That's how amazing life and history can be. Who was going to tell those brave Normans, when they left their distant lands, which at the end of their trip they would end up becoming Muslims and cheese makers!

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La missione di K.F. Butenev nell’Emirato di Bukhara: un capitolo significativo delle relazioni russo-bucarese. Esplorazioni, diplomazia e prospettive minerarie nell’Asia centrale del XIX secolo

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Un contesto di sviluppo economico e relazioni rafforzate. A cavallo tra il XVIII e il XIX secolo, il Khanato di Bukhara e la Russia hanno rafforzato le loro relazioni economiche e politiche. La crescente importanza del commercio internazionale e la transizione della Russia verso un’economia capitalistica favorirono la creazione di contatti più solidi tra le due potenze. Nel 1841, su iniziativa…

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Por Mitchell Plitnick (Mondoweiss) Presidente de ReThinking Foreign Policy y escritor habitual sobre Oriente Medio y la política exterior de Estados Unidos. Desde la caída de Bashar al-Assad, Israel ha llevado a cabo una invasión no provocada de Siria con el apoyo de Estados Unidos. Los objetivos son claros: tomar territorio estratégico, dejar a Siria indefensa para el futuro y rediseñar el…

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Viajes deseados “Abu Dhabi, Emiratos Árabes Unidos 🇦🇪 “

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Limpieza de edificios mediante tecnología de drones en Emiratos Árabes Unidos:

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Un nuevo rol para Emiratos Árabes Unidos en Medio Oriente

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PRIMA PAGINA Marca di Oggi venerdì, 29 novembre 2024

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Realizan más de 10.000 chequeos en Dubái para descarta el cáncer de mama

Realizan más de 10.000 chequeos en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, del cual Dubái forma parte, para descarta el cáncer de mama. Después de los 30 años las mujeres deben hacerse una revisión médica para descartar la presencia del cáncer mamario. Una enfermedad que puede quitarle la vida en meses o años, pero que puede ser tratada si se descubre a tiempo. Y en ese sentido, la mujer tiene una…

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