TEXT _ Paz Blanco Sanmartín y Otilia Prado Fernández
ILLUSTRATION _ César Blas
In the year 411 the Barbarians, semper fallaces et perfidi, ransacked the provinces of Spain and, according to Hidacio, the Bishop of A Limia, who described the Barbarian invasion during the latter years of his life, the inhabitants were forced to submit to the Barbarians that dominated their provinces.
Paulo Orosio, another Galician historian, at a time when the region began in the Douro, adopts a more emotive attitude to the historic changes that were taking place in the world. What for some represented nostalgia, for others was illusion. The Swabians ruled over Galicia from the year 411 to 585, when they were ousted by the Visigoths.
This volume takes an in-depth look at the major events of the first Galician-Swabian kingdom and is the first modern-day work of its kind to address one of the lesser-known periods of our history.
