Empire Todmir
The kingdom of Todmir (or Tudmir, Todmir / Tudmir was the Arabic name of the Visigothic Comes (Count) Theudemir ) was a Visigoth province, which apparently survived the conquest of the Iberian peninsula by the Moors from 711 as an independent rule under Moorish sovereignty until 756 before this area was also incorporated into Arab rule.
This empire (originally probably a county) comprised an area with the cities of Alicante , Lorca and Orihuela and thus about 10,000 square kilometers (about the entire present-day province of Alicante and the eastern half of the province of Murcia). The governor there Theudemir fought against the Arab forces, but finally concluded the Treaty of Orihuela with ʿAbd al-Azīz in April 713. Thereafter, Theudemir was granted a certain autonomy in his rule. In return for the recognition of the Moorish sovereignty and the payment of an annual tribute, the residents of the rule were guaranteed their property and their way of life. In this sense, the classic term “empire” (“reino”) is probably too extensive for this rule, since the area was by no means independent in a comparable way as, for example, Asturias . The sources therefore also speak of kura .
First Theudemir ruled over the area, after his death in 743 followed by Athanagild , possibly his son, who could not prevent the incorporation into Al-Andalus in 756. Until 778, however, the area seems to have been an autonomous province, which was only dissolved after a failed Abbasid invasion attempt . With the founding of the city of Mursiyya (today's Murcia ), the name of the Tudmir region was gradually forgotten.
literature
- Klaus Herbers , History of Spain in the Middle Ages , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018871-2 , pp. 79f