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Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium-sized markets ...
t. e. Spain in the Middle Ages is a period in the history of Spain that began in the 5th century following the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ended with the beginning of the early modern period in 1492. The history of Spain is marked by waves of conquerors who brought their distinct cultures to the peninsula.
Tesoros de la Real Academia de la Historia (32 authors) published by the Spanish Royal Academy of History and by National Heritage, Madrid, 2001. THOMAS, Joseph – The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, Iac – Pro, vol III, Cosimo Inc, New York, 2009 (originally published in 1887).
Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula in 1157. Afonso had already won many victories over the Moors. At the beginning of his reign the religious fervor which had sustained the Almoravid dynasty was rapidly subsiding; in Portugal independent Moorish chiefs ruled over cities and petty taifa states, ignoring the central government; in Africa the Almohades were destroying the remnants of the ...
Portuguese Republic República Portuguesa (Portuguese) Flag Coat of arms Anthem: A Portuguesa "The Portuguese" Show globe Show map of the European Union Location of Portugal (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) – in the European Union (green) Capital and largest city Lisbon 38°46′N 9°9′W / 38.767°N 9.150°W / 38.767; -9.150 Official languages Portuguese ...
Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina –based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Television . It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a prominent joint venture with Jefferson-Pilot Communications which made them partners on the main Atlantic Coast Conference ...
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis . The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
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.