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This page relates to the year 697 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Synod of Birr (approximate date). The Church of Northern Ireland accepts the Roman calculation of the dâte of Passover. The abbot of Iona Saint Adomnan makes ratify the Cain Adamnain , intended to ensure protection in the event of conflicts, of the women of the children and clergy.
Venice elects its first doge, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, and takes its autonomy towards Byzance.
Pépin of Herstal gives to Saint Ursmer, abbot of Lobbes, between 697 and 713 the villae of Leernes and Trazegnies.
Discovered of a tomb Jewish with Narbonne.

the Berbères ordered by queen Al Kahina crush the Arab army of Hassan close to Tébessa and rejects it in Tripolitaine.

Al Kahina captured eighty Arab chiefs, whom it slackens all except one, Khalid Ben Yezid, that it adopts. This last will betray it to provide information on divisions of the Berbères to Hassan ibn Al-Naked' man. Indeed, Al-Kahina, queen of the seminomad tribes of the Aurès, practical the scorched earth policy. It makes cut the olive-trees, source of richness of the country and dismantle the fortresses and the cities, thus alienating the sedentary inhabitants of the plain. Some, especially among the Christians, choose the exile towards the Spain or the islands of the Mediterranean. Others adopt the Arab and beseech their protection against Al-Kahina.
According to the historian Ibn Khaldoun, queen Al-Kahina (“the soothsayer”) are called actually Dihya and belongs to a judaïsée tribe, Jerawa.

Beginning of the reign of Mercury (Merkurios de Makuria), king of Dongola, in Nubie (fine in 710).

Under the Mercury reign, a very great number of strengthened churches are built in the kingdom of Dongola to fight at the same time against the attacks of the Moslems of Egypt and the nomads Bedja.

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