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Europe · The early medieval west

County of Berga

drawn on the map AD 898–959, 990–1027, 1040–1125, 1169–1235

Comtat de Berga. A small county in the Berguedà; the pagus of Berga was detached from Osona and annexed to Cerdanya (990/1002).

Shown on the map
AD 898–959, 990–1027, 1040–1125, 1169–1235 (4 periods)
Peak area
9k km²
Region
Europe

Names

Comtat de Berga. A small county in the Berguedà; the pagus of Berga was detached from Osona and annexed to Cerdanya (990/1002). It was held by the Cerdanya-Besalú comital family (the Abbot Oliba was briefly count, 988–1002). On the death of the last count Bernard William (Bernard II) without heirs in 1117, Berga passed to the County of Barcelona together with Cerdanya.

Common questions

What was the County of Berga?
Comtat de Berga. A small county in the Berguedà; the pagus of Berga was detached from Osona and annexed to Cerdanya (990/1002).
When is the County of Berga shown on the map?
The border data draws the County of Berga AD 898–959, 990–1027, 1040–1125, 1169–1235, in 4 separate periods. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the County of Berga?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Berga covered about 9,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for al-Andalus, the taifas and the Christian kingdoms as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and academic work on the historiography of the Reconquista and the taifa period (García-Sanjuán). The article this entry is anchored on:

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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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