Etiqueta 'Majorcan history'
Enjoy Mallorca: Palma’s summer fiestas one hundred years ago
The summer 1921 fiestas had essentially therefore been about having fun!!
Enjoy Mallorca: Alcudia, Sant Jaume and the disappearance of a settlement
What happened to Guinyent? Why did it disappear?
Vandals, Visigoths and Vikings: Mallorca’s uncertain history
As history goes in Mallorca, there is hardly anything, prior to the conquest of Jaume I in 1229, to which specific dates can be attached.
The mystery of the Portuguese attack of 1415
On February 23, 1415, Guillem de Santjoan got wind of an attack, and on the following day reinforcements arrived...
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