Dublin began as a Viking settlement. Norse raiders built a longphort, a fortified ship camp, on the River Liffey around the early 840s, at a place connected with the dark tidal pool that gave the city its name, Dubh Linn, while the Irish name Baile Atha Cliath refers to a ford of wooden hurdles. A Norse kingdom grew up in the following centuries, trading in slaves, silver and goods across the Irish Sea. Brian Boru's victory at Clontarf in 1014 broke Viking power in Ireland, but Dublin remained Hiberno-Norse. In 1170 Anglo-Norman forces captured it, and it became the centre of English rule in Ireland. It is now the capital of the Republic of Ireland.
Before and after
- 828 CEConstruction of St Mark's Basilica
- c. 830sThe House of Wisdom flourishes in Baghdad
- from 833 CE to 907 CEGreat Moravia
- 834 CEOrigins of Sarkel
- c. 841 CEOrigins of Dublin
- from 843 CE to 962 CEEast Francia
- from 843 CE to 1707Kingdom of Scotland
- from 843 CE to 987 CEWest Francia
- August 843 CETreaty of Verdun
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The era
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