grad student inherits an ancient kingdom

Edit The Seattle Times 13 Apr 2016
Jonathan Levi’s exhilarating and complex novel “Septimania” follows an organ tuner and Cambridge graduate student who learns that he has inherited an ancient European kingdom. Jonathan Levi reads Thursday April 14 at the Seattle Public Library ... ....

Medieval Muslim graves in France reveal a previously unseen history [US]

Edit Ars Technica 25 Feb 2016
A team of French archaeologists describe the three graves in an article in PLoS One, explaining that they were found in an area that was once enclosed by a Roman-style wall from the days when Nimes was a key outpost in Septimania, on the western fringes of the Roman Empire ... (credit. G. Devilder) ... Comments ....

Medieval Muslim graves in France reveal a previously unseen history

Edit Ars Technica 25 Feb 2016
(credit. Gleize et al.) ... A team of French archaeologists describe the three graves in an article in PLoS One, explaining that they were found in an area that was once enclosed by a Roman-style wall from the days when Nimes was a key outpost in Septimania, on the western fringes of the Roman Empire ... (credit. G....

Earliest known medieval Muslim graves are discovered in France

Edit The Los Angeles Times 22 Feb 2016
According to historical documents, around the year 719, Muslim troops from the Umayyad army crossed the eastern Pyrenees and occupied the region around Narbonne 530 miles south of modern-day Paris. But the occupation was short-lived. By 760, the Franks, who came from the north, took over the region known as Septimania. Very little known is about these early invaders ... (Deborah Netburn) ...   ... (Karen Kaplan) ... ....

Greg Abbott tells Barack Obama no Syrian refugees coming to Texas after Paris

Edit The Examiner 17 Nov 2015
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Barack Obama today, Monday, November 16, 2015 informing him that the State of Texas will not accept any refugees from Syria in the wake of the deadly Muslim terrorist attack in Paris ... Abbott also expressed concern about the fact a "Syrian refugee" appears to have been part of the Paris attack ... That invasion allowed the Muslims to rule Spain, Portugal and Septimania ... still exists. ....
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