Facts in brief:
Sieged by Vandals 5th cen.; later incorporated into Byzantine Empire; captured by Arabs 8th cen.; taken by James I who made it part of Arago'n 1229; independent after death of James I; again brought under Arago'n by Peter IV 1300s.
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