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Marca Hispanica
The
Marca Hispánica
(, ,
Aragonese
and , , ), also known as
Spanish
March
or
March of Barcelona
was a
buffer zone
beyond the former province of
Septimania
, created by
Charlemagne
in 795 as a defensive barrier between the
Umayyad
Moors
of
Al-Andalus
and the Frankish
Carolingian Empire
(
Duchy of Gascony
, the
Duchy of Aquitaine
and
Carolingian Septimania
).
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