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Chapter 13ChrP.5.13

De capcione insularum Majorice et Minorice.

The Capture of Majorca and Minorca

In 1230, the king of Aragon captured the islands of Majorca and Minorca from the Saracens, with a marginal gloss noting Ptolemy.

In the year of our Lord 1230, the king of Aragon in Spain captured the islands called Majorca and Minorica, which had been held by the Saracens. (Ptolemy)

Read the original Latin

Anno domini mccxxx rex Arragonum" in Hispania cepit insulas, que Majorice etb Minorice appellantur, obsessas a Sarracenis c. (Ptol )

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