History of Mallorca

The earliest remains found in Mallorca dating from 3500 BC at the time of the Neolithic transition period between the Bronze Age, where the first copper objects made appearance. The earliest known inhabitants of the islands, were the Balearic slingers.

By 1300 BC lived crucial changes that resulted in the emergence of Talayotic culture. This culture war that lasted after Quintus Caecilius Metellus conquered the island to the Roman Republic in 123 BC Due to frequent pirate attacks based on the islands, Rome decided to take over the archipelago. Legend has it that the Roman general had to protect their vessels in animal skins, because its deep slingers firing prevented them from landing. The Roman legions took two years to bring the islands. After the conquest, the slingers became part of the Roman auxiliary troops fighting prominently next to Julius Caesar in the conquest of Gaul.

In the year 425 Mallorca suffered invasion and plunder of the Vandals, among which Walka Podgorica, Germanic people who settled on the island until the year 534, when the Byzantine general Belisarius ordered to conquer the Balearic archipelago.

In 707 there was the first Muslim landed on record. Followed by two centuries of constant anxiety until the year 903 from Mallorca was held by the Muslim Umayyad dynasty. Alaró Castle held out for eight years, according to the chronicles, and was the last refuge of the resistance of the Christians during the Muslim conquest. The Majorcan Proto then replaced by Arabic. Then came a flowering stage, during which Medina Mayurqa, Palm today was a great cultural center.

In 1115 a squadron attacked Pisan-Catalan Mallorca in a punitive expedition in retaliation for pirate activities that were carried from the island. Looted and destroyed first Mayurqa Medina, the Pisan fleet fled when he spotted the squad Almoravid sent from Africa. The island remained in family hands Almoravid Ganiya Banu, who encouraged piracy against Christian ships. Later, in 1203, the Almoravids took over Mallorca.

Aragonese troops of Jaime I the Conqueror, who came to the island in 1229, finally conquered the island for Christians. After the final defeat of Abu Yahya in the battle of Portopí (1229) and take and pass a knife Mayurqa Medina (1230), the resistance ceased in 1231.

At his death (1276), his son Jaime II de Mallorca took the throne after the swearing in of the so-called Charter of the Franchises. The independence of the kingdom was short. In 1349 he was reinstated to the Crown of Aragon. The death of King James III of Mallorca in the Battle of Llucmajor was the end of the Kingdom of Mallorca.

At the time of Charles I, in 1521, his was an uprising, the rebels coming to besiege the town of Alcudia, where the nobility had fled the island. Throughout the sixteenth century, the island, like the rest of the Balearic Islands and the Spanish Levant, was attacked and looted by the Turkish and Berber pirates.

Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallorca#Historia