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What Did Religious Unity Cost the Visigothic Kingdom? - The Making of Visigothic Toledo | Sleepy Facts About History
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The Visigothic kingdom in sixth-century Iberia began without a fixed capital. Instead, kings moved continuously from city to city with a mobile court of nobles, officials, and armed retainers. Royal authority was strongest where the king stood and weakest where he did not. This episode explores how Toledo, a defensible city perched on a granite promontory above the Tagus River, gradually emerged from this pattern of movement to become the central stage for a fragmented territory trying to…
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