[combat_boots]

A number of Christian kingdoms in Northern Spain....

There was one King in the NW who resisted successfully, stopping the Moors there. I forget his name now, but that's the place where the Reconquista began, somewhere I think in Asturias.

[muawiyah]

Working forward, Visigoths conquer Roman Spain. Moslems conquer most of Visigothic Spain. Weather, mountains and generally disastrous economic conditions in the North convinced the Moslems to not waste time trying to subdue the area.

King San Cho Noe I arrived from Cornwall, subdued the Gaellic North, and founded three kingdoms.

Each were to work as a hammer, anvil and tong and work their way South. The idea was to ultimately conquer spain a piece at a time. This became known as the Reconquista.

Hundreds of years later two of the original kingdoms founded by San Cho Noe wrapped up the conquest. They are known as Castle and Lion (Castile/Leon). The third kingdom, Carvajal/Carvalho was kind of absorbed by the others (like a mini-Thurungia), refurbished Compostela, sponsored an order of French knighthood, and passed on into tourist history as the final stop on a Pardon that begins in Brittany.

Depending on where you live, your religious leanings, your ethnicity and language some of this may be more important to you than other parts.