
Sabaria was a semi-autonomous territory in
Iberia
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, between the
Kingdom of the Suebi
The Kingdom of the Suebi (), also called the Kingdom of Galicia () or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia (), was a Germanic peoples, Germanic Migration Period, post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire. Based in the fo ...
and the
Visigothic kingdom
The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths () was a Barbarian kingdoms, barbarian kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the Germanic people ...
, in the 4th-6th centuries that extended from
Benavente to
Salamanca
Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...
and from
Sayago to
Simancas.
Sabaria was autonomous enough to mint its own currency, although this coinage is sometimes confused with the Visigothic mint of Senimure-Semure in the current city of
Zamora.
["Senimure y Ocelodurum", El Miliario Extravagante, 44, Seth. of 93, p. 10- 13. Luciano Pérez Vilatela]
References
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Kingdom of the Suebi
Visigothic Kingdom
Medieval history of Portugal
Medieval history of Spain