![]() ![]() The kingdom was now strong enough to sack the Moorish cities of Lisbon, Zamora and Coimbra. With this growth came a corresponding increase in military forces. Alfonso's policy consisted in depopulating the borders of Bardulia (which would turn into Castile) in order to gain population support north of the mountains. Pilgrims from all over Europe opened a way of communication between the isolated Asturias and the Carolingian lands and beyond. ![]() During his reign, the holy bones of St James the Great were declared to be found in Galicia, in Compostela (from Latin campus stellae, literally "the field of the star"). Under King Alfonso II (791–842), the kingdom was firmly established with Alfonso's recognition as king of Asturias by Charlemagne and the Pope. Thus Fruela I (757–768) fought Muslims but also defeated the Basques and Galicians, and Silo (774–783) made peace with the Muslims but not with the Galicians. The Asturian kings would occasionally make peace with the Muslims, particularly at times when they needed to pursue their other enemies, the Basques and rebels in Galicia. That year, Pelagius defeated an Umayyad army at the Battle of Covadonga, in what is usually regarded as the beginning of the Reconquista. It was the first Christian political entity established after the Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 718. ![]() The Kingdom of Asturias ( Latin: Asturum Regnum Asturian: Reinu d'Asturies) was a kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the Visigothic nobleman Pelagius. ![]()
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