Kingdom of Asturias
| Kingdom of Asturias | ||||||||||||
| Regnum Asturorum | ||||||||||||
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Motto Hoc Signo Tuetur Pius, Hoc Signo Vincitur Inimicus (English: With this sign thou shalt defend the pious, with this sign thou shalt defeat the enemy) |
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 The Kingdom of Asturias circa 814 CE
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| Capital | Cangas de Onís, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Pravia, Oviedo | |||||||||||
| Languages | Latin, Vulgar Latin (Astur-Leonese, Castilian, Galician-Portuguese), a few speakers of Visigothic and Vandalic | |||||||||||
| Religion |
 Christianity |
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| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||||
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| • | 718–737 | Pelagius of Asturias | ||||||||||
| • | 910–925 | Fruela II of Asturias | ||||||||||
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| • | Established | 718 | ||||||||||
| • | Battle of Covadonga | 718 or 722 | ||||||||||
| • | Hereditary monarchy | 842 | ||||||||||
| • | Divided | 910 | ||||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 924 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Spain Portugal
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The Kingdom of Asturias (Latin: Regnum Asturorum) was a kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula founded in 718 by the nobleman Pelagius of Asturias (Spanish: Pelayo). It was the first Christian political entity established after the Umayyad conquest of Visigoth Hispania in 718 or 722. That year, Pelagius defeated an Umayyad patrol at the Battle of Covadonga, in what is usually regarded as the beginning of the Reconquista. The Kingdom of Asturias transitioned into the Kingdom of León in 924, when Fruela II of Asturias became king with his royal court in León.
The kingdom originated in the western and central territory of the Cantabrian Mountains, part of the Gallaecia, particularly the Picos de Europa and the central area of Asturias. The main political and military events during the first decades of the kingdom's existence took place in the region. According to the descriptions of Strabo, Cassius Dio and other Graeco-Roman geographers, several peoples of Celtic origin inhabited the lands of Asturias at the beginning of the Christian era, most notably:
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