What is 1230?
{{Year nav|1230}} {{Year in various calendars|1230}} {{Year article header|1230}} == Events == === By area === ==== Africa ==== * [[Sundiata]] starts to rule in [[Mali]] (approximate date). * In the [[West Africa]]n village of [[Siby]], [[Sundiata Keita]], founder of the [[Mali Empire]], forces the [[Mandinka people|Malinkés]] to bind themselves to each other by oath. ==== Europe ==== * [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Bulgaria]]n [[tsar]] [[Ivan Asen II]] defeats [[Theodore Komnenos Doukas|Theodore]] of [[Despotate of Epirus|Epirus]] near the village of [[Klokotnitsa]]. * [[Iberian Peninsula]]: [[Alphonso IX]] defeats [[Ibn Hud al-Yamani]] (known as almogàver by the Christians) at the battle of [[Alange]]. This success opens the road to [[Badajoz]] to the Leonese troops.<ref name=linehan1999>{{cite book|title=The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300|year=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0-521-36289-X|pages=668–699|author=Peter Linehan|editor=David Abulafia|chapter=Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre}}</ref> The Portuguese king [[Sancho II of Portugal|Sancho II]] continues his offensive southward and takes [[Beja (Portugal)|Beja]], [[Juromenha]], [[Serpa]] and [[Moura Municipality|Moura]].<ref name=picard2000>{{cite book|last=Picard|first=Christophe|title=Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique|year=2000|publisher=Maisonneuve & Larose|location=Paris|isbn=2-7068-1398-9|page=110}}</ref> * [[September 24]] &ndash; The Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of León|León]] and [[kingdom of Galicia|Galicia]] unite with the Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] and [[Kingdom of Toledo|Toledo]] under [[Ferdinand III of Castile|Ferdinand III]]. * The [[Teutonic Knights]] are invited into [[Prussia]] to forcibly convert the [[Prussians]] and Yatvags to [[Christianity]]. === By topic === ==== Arts ==== * The ''[[Carmina Burana]]'' poetry and song collection is created (approximate date).<ref>''Carmina Burana. Die Lieder der Benediktbeurer Han