James I of Aragon lands on Mallorca
1229
The Aragonese king launched a naval crusade against the Muslim taifa of Mallorca. His knights stormed the island in a brief, violent campaign. The conquest added the Balearics to the Aragonese crown and gave Catalan maritime commerce a new base in the western Mediterranean. Catalan settlers and their language soon dominated the islands, displacing the Arabic-speaking Muslim population through conversion and emigration.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.