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At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
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Seventeenth Council of Toledo
694 AD synod under Iberian king Egica
The Seventeenth Council of Toledo first met on 9 November 694 under Visigothic King Egica. It was the king's third council and primarily directed, as was the Sixteenth, against the Jews, for whom Egica seems to have had a profound distrust and dislike.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Egica
Visigoth King of Hispania and Septimania from 687 to ~702 AD
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Hispania
Roman province (218 BC – 472 AD)
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Ownership of people as property
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