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County of Sicily
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| 1071–1130 | |||||||||
 The county in 1112, before its merger with the mainland Duchy of Apulia and Calabria | |||||||||
| Capital | Palermo 38°7′N 13°21′E / 38.117°N 13.350°E | ||||||||
| Official languages | Latin Byzantine Greek | ||||||||
| Other languages | Italo-Romance languages Norman Hebrew Siculo-Arabic | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism (official), Greek Orthodoxy, Islam, and Judaism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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• 1071–1101 | Roger I | ||||||||
• 1101–1105 | Simon | ||||||||
• 1105–1130 | Roger II | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1071 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1130 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Italy Malta | ||||||||
The County of Sicily[1][2] was a Norman state comprising the islands of Sicily and Malta and part of Calabria from 1071 until 1130.[3] The county began to form during the Norman conquest of Sicily (1061–91) from the Muslim Emirate, established by conquest in 965. The county is thus a transitional period in the history of Sicily. After the Muslims had been defeated and either forced out or incorporated into the Norman military, a further period of transition took place for the county and the Sicilians.
- ^ Fiore, Giovanni. Della Calabria illustrata, Vol. 3. Rubbettino, 1999. p. 551.
- ^ Roger I, Encyclopædia Britannica: "Roger went to Italy in 1057 to aid his brother Robert Guiscard in his conquest of Calabria from the Byzantines (1060). They began the conquest of Sicily from various Muslim rulers in 1061 with the capture of Messina, and they completed it in 1091. The turning point of the struggle was the capture of Palermo in 1072, when Robert invested Roger as his vassal with the county of Sicily and Calabria with a limited right to govern and to tax."
- ^ Takayama, Hiroshi. The Administration of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. Brill Publishers: Leiden, 1993. p. 47.