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Norman adventurers in the second decade of …
Years: 1048 - 1048
Norman adventurers in the second decade of the eleventh century had begun a prolonged and haphazard migration to southern Italy and Sicily, where they served the local nobility as mercenaries fighting the Arabs and the Empire.
As more Normans arrived, they had carved out small principalities for themselves from their former employers.
Among the most remarkable of these Norman adventurers are the sons of Tancred de Hauteville, who establish their rule over the southern Italian regions of Puglia (Apulia) and …
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- Arab people
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
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- Italy, Catepanate of
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Years: 1048 - 1048
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Normans
- Italy, Catepanate of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Non-dynastic and Comnenid dynasty
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions