Among his sources, Paul used the document called the Origo gentis Langobardorum, the Liber pontificalis, the lost history of Secundus of Trent, and the lost annals of Benevento ; he made a free use of Bede, Gregory of Tours and Isidore of Seville.

It was considered as a possible headquarters of the Andalusian government but lost the vote in favor of Seville.

From one side the land on the other is visible ; and the cape of this region about 60 miles away, much as if one were sailing eastward through the Straits of Gibraltar or Seville and Barbary or Morocco in Africa, as our Globe shows toward the Antarctic Pole.

In 1971, he played a candidates match against Robert Hübner in a noisy area in Seville, which did not disturb him, but frustrated Hübner so much that he finally withdrew from the match.

Averroes ( 1126 – 1198 ), who spent much of his life in Cordoba and Seville, was especially distinguished as a commentator of Aristotle.

In 1994 AVE trains on the Madrid – Seville line began to run at 300 km / h, cutting journey times by at least 40 minutes and covering the 471 km in 2½ hours, though it is unlikely that much of a saving came from the increase in maximum speed, because only a small section of the line near Los Yébenes has the alignments for 300 km / h operation.

In 1144, another Christian convert and Sufi mystic from Silves, Abu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Qasi, called ibn Qasi, rose and extablished a Taifa state at Mértola, expanding it to much of southern Portugal, and he encouraged the successful move of the Almohads ( to whom he would submit ) against Seville.

Seville Spanish is also the source of the merger of phonemes / s / ( coSer ) and / θ / ( coCer ) that are both pronounced / s / in much of Andalusia and generally in all Latin America dialects.

His son Peter the Cruel had it embellished by Mudéjar artists, beautiful works at Santa Clara, though on a much smaller scale than they did in the Alcázar of Seville.

In September Seville surrenders without much of a fight to Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr.

In 844, Abd ar-Rahman repulsed an assault by Vikings who had disembarked in Cadiz, conquered Seville ( with the exception of its citadel ) and attacked Córdoba itself.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

In this institution, the first of its kind in Iberia, a body of learned men including Archbishop Saint Leander of Seville taught the trivium and quadrivium, the classic liberal arts.

" Cicero's conception of natural law " found its way to later centuries notably through the writings of Saint Isidore of Seville and the Decretum of Gratian.

** UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the 25th session of its General Conference.

It can also be noted that in its frequent depictions of smoky taverns and smelly back alleys, sword and sorcery draws upon the picaresque genre ; for example, Fritz Leiber's city of Lankhmar bears considerable similarity to 16th Century Seville as depicted in Cervantes ' tale Rinconete y Cortadillo.

Ibn Bassal then founded a garden in Seville, most of its plants being collected on a botanical expedition that included Morocco, Persia, Sicily and Egypt.

Opera North, based in Leeds, England, set its January 2011 production of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen in Seville, Ohio, rather than Seville, Spain.

After the Treaty of Seville, Philip V disregarded its provisions and formed an alliance with France and Great Britain.

Triana, named after a neighborhood in Seville, has the most Spanish influence in its architecture, and is the oldest neighborhood in the city.

Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, who was born in Seville, Spain, became closely associated with the Palmar de Troya movement, which had its origins in an alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 30 March 1968 in El Palmar de Troya, a little village near Utrera in the Province of Seville.

In Late Antiquity, the term " shameless finger " is explained in the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville with reference to its frequent use when accusing someone of a " shameful action ".

Isidore of Seville lists geomancy with other methods of divination including pyromancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, and necromancy without describing its application or methods ; it could be that Isidore of Seville was listing methods of elemental scrying more than what is commonly known as geomancy.

The first two appeared at Salamanca in 1588, the last at Seville in 1590, and was soon after its publication translated into various languages.

In 1596, in Seville, he wrote Memorial for the Reformation of England, which gave in some detail a blueprint for the kind of society England was to become after its return to the faith.

Following its geographical listing by Isidore of Seville in the early 7th century Etymologiae ( a standard Mediaeval textbook ), the name of Hyrcania became known and taught as far off as Ireland, where it was included in poems such as Cú-cen-máthair by Luccreth moccu Chiara ( 665 AD ), the Auraicept na n-Éces, and Lebor Gabála Érenn ( 11th century ).

The second team to be founded in Seville of which there is evidence dates back to 1909, when its articles of association were approved, although it had already been working as a football club since 1907.

During its first years of existence many charity matches against teams of British sailors anchored in the port of Seville were played.

Sevilla FC won its first official trophy, the Seville Town Hall Cup, in 1913 after winning 2-0 to Sevilla Balompié.

The University of Seville is steeped in history and is one of the most important cultural centers in Spain, dating to the 15th century when the Catholic Monarchs recovered the area from the Moors, a history reflected in its architecture.

The main building of University of Seville is known as the " Old Tobacco Factory ", named for its original use.

Other campuse and faculties are located throughout Seville, including the Health Science schools in La Macarena, the Business School in Nervion, the Engineering School and School of Communications in La Cartuja and its Languages Institute Instituto de Idiomas and Science Schools in Reina Mercedes.

The Seville was a relative success, but the political and economic climate of the 1980s suggested a need for something smaller.

It would appear that he was based in Palos at least up to and including the time of Columbus's first voyage ( 1492 ); by 1495 he was living in nearby Moguer ; after the economic failure of his 1499 – 1500 expedition, he appears to have moved no later than 1502 to Seville.

After the discovery of the Americas, Seville became the economic centre of the Spanish Empire as its port monopolised the trans-oceanic trade and the Casa de Contratación ( House of Trade ) wielded its power, opening a Golden Age of arts and letters.

Coinciding with the Baroque period of European history, the 17th century in Seville represented the most brilliant flowering of the city's culture ; then began a gradual economic and demographic decline as navigation of the Guadalquivir River became increasingly difficult until finally the trade monopoly and its institutions were transferred to Cádiz.

In the 17th century Seville fell into a deep economic and urban decline as a consequence of the general economic crisis that struck Europe and Spain in particular.

The Andalusian Party () is a nationalist centre-left political party from Andalusia ( Spain ), with an important presence in provinces such as Cádiz and Seville although in the past they have stood in other provinces and even won seats in Barcelona to the Catalan Regional Assembly.

Pleguezuelos began her political career in 1989 when she was elected to the Spanish parliament representing Seville serving until 1993 and then from 2000 to 2004.

Some of these casetas belong to the prominent families of Seville, some to groups of friends, clubs, trade associations or political parties.

The term has also been used to describe negotiated statements such as the Seville Statement on Violence or the Waldorf Statement, or extempore utterances with political implications.

On 3 April 1979 Spain held its first democratic municipal elections after the end of Franco's dictatorship ; councillors representing four different political parties were elected in Seville: the Union of the Democratic Centre or Unión de Centro Democrático ( UCD ) won nine councilors, the Andalusian Party or Partido Andalucista ( PA ) won eight, the Spanish Socialist Party or Partido Socialista Obrero Español ( PSOE ) won eight as well and the Communist Party of Spain or Partido Comunista de España ( PCE ) won six.