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The Muslim world, which reached from Baghdad to the Pyrenees, soon fragmented, with Spain becoming an independent caliphate.
He led one of history’s great military marches from Spain into Italy, crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps on the way.
When Celtic peoples crossed the Pyrenees in the first millennium b.c., they intermarried with the existing Iberian population and built a series of hilltop fort communities or citânias, the finest example of which is at Briteiros (see page 73).
Although the view from its 1,235-meter (4,051-foot) summit can encompass both the Pyrenees and Mallorca, it is more significant that from afar one can see the unmistakable outline that gives Montserrat its name, “Serrated Mountain.”
His successor, Ramón Berenguer IV, united Catalonia with neighboring Aragón by marriage, and his son Alfonso II became the first joint-king of Aragón and Catalonia and was known as “the Emperor of the Pyrenees.”