A city of southern Spain southeast of cordoba. Founded by the Moors in the eighth century, it became the center of an independent kingdom in 238.
About the close of the eighth century, papists put forth the claim that in the first ages of the church the bishops of Rome had possessed the same spiritual power which they now assumed.
The eighth century, there have been zero symbols engraved on the oldest version of record.
The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem believed to have been composed in the early eighth centuryulf slays the monster Grendel and its mother, becomes king of the Geats, and dies fighting a dragon.
Construction of Java's BoroBudur Temple, one of the world's largest Buddhist monuments and a world Heritage site, began in the eighth century, under the Sailendra dynasty.
In the late eighth century, the Vikings attacked England.
It is known that Alexandria's Eastern Harbor was abandoned after another earthquake, in the eighth century, and was left untouched as an open bay.
