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FROM ASHES AND RUIN, A NEW WORLD IS FORGED
Desperate, hungry for new lands to raid they came, they were like the other Norse, swarming across the European continent via the seas and rivers. Ravaging the Muslim Moorish civilization of Al-Andalus, just as it began to fracture. In the year 859, they seized the moment and seized a new homeland in the ashes of the conquered Berber emirate of Nekor. They would cut into the heart of the old Umayyad Khalifate [1] of Qurṭuba [2]. In the name of plunder and riches, they stroke terror and laid waste to Al-Andalus. Their very name would strike terror to both Muslims and Christians and would be etched in the lands they conquered. They fling open the borders to astonishing political, economic and social change.
The thunder of their conquest would echo across two continents and across the entire world. They were the Nortehomians.
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[1] Khalifate - an alternate name for Caliphate. A state run by a khalif, translated from the Arabic word Khalifa, meaning successor, substitute or lieutenant. It is used in the Koran to establish Adam's role as Allah's representative; starting with Mohammed and his line of successors. The word had been used to describe the belief that man was Allah's viceroy on Earth. [2] Qurṭuba - the alternate name for what we know as Córdoba. In 766, it was chosen as the capital of the independent emirate of Al-Andalus, later becoming a full-fledged Khalifate. In OTL, it had a population of roughly five hundred thousand people living there though there are estimates going as high as one million. During the tenth and eleventh centuries, Córdoba was one of the most advanced cities in the world as well as a great cultural, political, financial and economic center.