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EarlierTang Changan Shangyuan Lantern Festival713 CE
LaterBede Completes Ecclesiastical History731 CE
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Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo; c. 685 – 737) was a Visigothic nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. Pelagius is credited with initiating the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, and establishing the Asturian monarchy.

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