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The Cortes of León or Decreta of León from year 1188 was a parliamentary body in the medieval Kingdom of León. According to UNESCO , it is the first historically documented example of a parliamentary system .
1.2 High Middle Ages ... The Cortes Generales ... Then, in 1936, the Army's failed coup degenerated into the Spanish Civil War, ...
Pages in category "Civil wars of the Middle Ages" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. ... Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384)
Medieval warfare is the warfare of the Middle Ages.Technological, cultural, and social advancements had forced a severe transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of cavalry and artillery (see military history).
The Crown of Castile [nb 1] was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.
A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages. [43] The Mongols had threatened Europe, but Mongol states also unified much of Eurasia and, from 1206 on, the Pax Mongolica allowed safe trade routes and communication lines from the Middle East to China.
Years later, the king again summoned the Cortes to Seville in the fall of 1282; to raise monies for waging his war against the Moors, he proposed a debasement of the coinage, to which the assembly reluctantly consented. [64] "NO8DO", which appears on the city's coat of arms, is the official motto and the subject of one of the many legends of ...
The siege of Albarracín was a battle fought during the reign of Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragón from the months of April to September 1284. Albarracín, which had for some time belonged to Juan Núñez I de Lara, the head of the House of Lara, was besieged by an Aragonese force.