The Vikings are coming: the re-enactment of 9th-centory attacks on Catoira, northwestern Spain.
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Archaeologists and historians are revealing the facts behind the Viking raids, which are celebrated with a fiesta every August.
Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is profoundly militarised.
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Plus, what the study of 700-year old garbage is revealing about who lived in Islamic Andalusia. Listen to episode 20 of The Conversation Weekly.
The Alcázar palace in Seville, once home to some of the Muslim rulers in al-Andalus.
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The inter-marriage of Muslim families and the mingling with Christianity provides us with an interesting back story to a Muslim ancestor of the current British monarch.