According to ʻAbd al-Ḥakam, Ṭāriq was marching from Cartagena to Córdoba — after defeating a Gothic army that tried to stop him — when he met Roderic in battle near Shedunya, probably modern Medina Sidonia.

According to the late Chronicle of Alfonso III, Roderic was a son of Theodefred, himself a son of king Chindaswinth, and of a lady named Riccilo.

According to the Chronicle of 754, Roderic " tumultuously invaded the kingdom with the encouragement of at the exhortation of the senate.

According to the Chronicle of 754, Roderic immediately upon securing his throne gathered a force to oppose the Arabs and Berbers ( Mauri ) who were raiding in the south of the Iberian peninsula and had destroyed many towns under Tariq ibn Ziyad and other Muslim generals.

According to a ninth-century chronicle, a tombstone with the inscription Hic requiescit Rodericus, rex Gothorum ( here rests Roderic, king of the Goths ) was found at Egitania ( modern Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal ).

< span id =" legend "></ span > According to the Legend of Nazaré, the town derives its name from a small statue of the Virgin Mary, a Black Madonna, brought by a monk in the 4th century from Nazareth, Holy Land, to a monastery near the city of Mérida, Spain, and was brought to its current place in 711 by another monk, Romano, accompanied by Roderic, the last Visigoth king.

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to the medical examiner, she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to the medical examiner she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to the Iliad, during the Trojan War, Diomedes fought Hector and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans ' side.

According to the majority of modern historians, Thietmar made an error summarizing the chronicle of Widukind, placing the Gero raid there instead of the fighting that Mieszko conducted at that time against Wichmann the Younger.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

According to the pre-agreed war plans under the Protocol of Sèvres, the Israelis invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, forcing Egypt to engage them militarily, and allowing the Anglo-French partnership to declare the resultant fighting a threat to the canal and enter the war on Israel's side.

" According to the U. S. State Department report and reports by Human Rights Watch, the other Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan were regular Pakistani soldiers especially from the Frontier Corps but also from the army providing direct combat support.

According to Muslim accounts of the battle, in the midst of the fighting on the second day ( Frankish accounts have the battle lasting one day only ), scouts from the Franks sent by Charles began to raid the camp and supply train ( including slaves and other plunder ).

According to Josephus, Titus had ordered that the Temple should not be destroyed, but while the fighting around the gates continued, a soldier hurled a torch inside one of the windows, which quickly set the entire building ablaze.

According to Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, the King in a private conversation had threatened to abdicate if the Government did not approve a German request to transfer a fighting infantry division – the so-called Engelbrecht Division – through Swedish territory from southern Norway to northern Finland in June 1941, around Midsummer.

According to Geoffrey in the Historia and much subsequent literature which he inspired, Avalon is the place where King Arthur is taken after fighting Mordred at the Battle of Camlann to recover from his wounds.

According to the Russian government, fighting between the troops and the still-conscious Chechen fighters continued in other parts of the building for another 30 minutes to one hour.

According to legend, the flag was already invented by Duke Leopold V of Austria as a consequence of his fighting during the Siege of Acre.

According to Mr. Komotsky, Many of the workers do not get the paid on time but they are fighting the policies of the Russian Government in the similar manner the previous employees of Pravda had fought the Tsarist Government around 100 years ago.

According to Captain Marbot the Emperor told Marshal Augereau that he disliked night fighting, that he wanted to wait until the morning so that he could count on Davout's Corps to come up on the right wing and Ney's on the left, and that the high ground before Eylau was a good, easily defensible position on which to wait for reinforcements.

According to Nicassio, Sardou may have chosen his name for its similarity to " Sciarpa ", the nickname of Gherardo Curci, a bandit who led irregular troops fighting on behalf of the monarchy in Naples and was made a baron by Ferdinand IV in 1800.

According to Abulghazi, Batu joined Ogedei's military campaign against the Jin Dynasty in North China while his younger brother was fighting the Bashkirs, the Cumans, the Bulghars and the Alans in the west.

According to Antheil " People were fighting in the aisles, yelling, clapping, hooting!

According to the protocol appended to the Moscow Peace Treaty, the fighting was ended at noon ( Leningrad time ), March 13, and by March 26 the Finnish troops had been completely withdrawn.

According to Plutarch, Albanians " were led by a brother of the king, named Cosis, who as soon as the fighting was at close quarters, rushed upon Pompey himself and smote him with a javelin on the fold of his breastplate ; but Pompey ran him through the body and killed him ".

According to The NZ Herald of the time, the British lost 39 men killed and 93 wounded during the fighting that day.

According to Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle " It solved one of the fundamental problems we had with making an RTS, which was that we wanted to have a central resource that everybody was fighting over.

* Occupation of Iraq: According to a USA Today / CNN / Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds ( 63 %) of Americans polled say the war in Iraq was worth fighting.

According to the Chronicles of Ragusa ( also known as the Chronicles of Dubrovnik ), the fighting lasted four months and thousands of Albanian soldiers lost their lives.