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Sunifred II (in Catalan, Sunyer; and in Spanish, Suñer) (c.840–915) was the count of Ampurias from 862 and Roussillon from 896 until his death. He was the son of Sunifred I, count of Barcelona. Catalan (Català ) or Valencian (Valencià ) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in several regions of Spain. ...
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This is a list of the counts of Roussillon (see Roussillon): Carolingian counts These counts were nominated by the Carolingian kings of France, of whom they were vassals. ...
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The now-extinct title of Count of Barcelona was, through much of its history, merged with that of King of Aragon; see also List of Aragonese Monarchs. ...
He and his brother Dela obtained the county of Ampurias in 862 after Humfrid, margrave of Gothia, rebelled. They governed it together until Dela's death. In 878, the council of Troyes deposed Bernat of Gothia, who had held Roussillon since 865. It was given to Miro the Elder and, in 896, when Miro died, it passed by heredity to Sunifred. Together with Dela, he tried to occupy Gerona, but their cousin, Wilfred the Hairy, stopped them. In 888, he travelled to Orléans to do homage to King Odo of France. In 891, he prepared a naval expedition to attack Moorish Almería. The campaign, however, ended in a truce. Margrave is the English and French form of the German title Markgraf (from Mark march and Graf count) and certain equivalent nobiliary (princely) titles in other languages. ...
The term Gothia, also called the Hispanic March, was frequently assigned to an area made up of lands south of the Pyrenees as well as in the north (Septimania). ...
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Girona (Catalan: Girona, Spanish: Gerona, French: Gérone) is a city located in the northwest of Catalonia, Spain on the confluence of the rivers Ter and Onyar. ...
Wilfred I, called the Hairy (Vifredo el Velloso, also Wilfredo, Wifredo, Guifredo, or Guilfredo in Spanish and Guifré el Pilós in Catalan), was de facto count of Urgel (870-897), Cerdagne (870-897), Barcelona (878-897), Gerona (878-897), Besalú (878-897), and Ausona (886-897); he was not...
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Orléans cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Cross, built from 1278 to 1329; after being pillaged by Huguenots in the 1560s, the Bourbon kings restored it in the 17th century. ...
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For the terrain type see Moor Moors is used in this article to describe the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. For other meanings look at Moors (Meaning) or Blackamoors. ...
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He married a woman named Ermengarda, with whom he had the following issue: |