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unusual facts about Kingdom of Asturias


Leonese Country

It was founded in 910 AD when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their main seat from Oviedo to the city of León.


Asturias de Oviedo

Asturias de Oviedo is one of the historical comarcas in the Kingdom of Asturias.

Rosa Juliana Sánchez de Tagle, Marquesa of Torre Tagle

She is also a shares the same ancestor as his husband, the Marquis of Torre Tagle as they both descended from the ancient line of Tagle founded in the Kingdom of Asturias.

Spanish nobility

The first of the kings of Pamplona and Asturias were originally elected and lifted up on a shield to assume Princeps inter Pares status, by these otherwise untitled nobles.

Victory Cross

The Victory Cross (Asturian and Spanish: Cruz de la Victoria) is an early 10th century Asturian Christian ornamented processional cross, which was, as an inscription says, made in 908 in the Castle of Gauzón (Avilés, Spain).

Tradition continous saying that the cross would later be kept by his son Favila of Asturias in the Church of Santa Cruz de Cangas de Onís erected by Favila and his wife Froiluba in 737 and dedicated to True Cross in Cangas de Onís, the first capital of the Kingdom of Asturias.

Villaviciosa, Asturias

During the time of the Kingdom of Asturias in the 8th century, the population moves away to Amandi, Camoca, Bedriñana, appearing frequently this county named as the Maliayo territory.


see also

Pelayo

Pelagius of Asturias, founder of the Kingdom of Asturias and beginner of the Reconquista