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Viking expansion: A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders.
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8th–11th century expansion by Norsemen
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Vikings
Norse seafarers, merchants and raiders
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Seville
Capital and largest city of Andalusia and the province of Seville in Spain
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Umayyad state of Córdoba
State in Islamic Iberia (756–1031 CE)
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Viking raid on Seville
844 raid in the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba
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