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County of Sicily | |||||||||
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1071–1130 | |||||||||
![]() The county in 1112, before its merger with the mainland Duchy of Apulia and Calabria | |||||||||
Capital | Palermo 38°7′N 13°21′E / 38.117°N 13.350°E | ||||||||
Official languages | Latin Byzantine Greek Siculo-Arabic | ||||||||
Other languages | Italo-Romance languages Norman Hebrew | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism (official), Greek Orthodoxy, Islam, and Judaism | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Count | |||||||||
• 1071–1101 | Roger I | ||||||||
• 1101–1105 | Simon | ||||||||
• 1105–1130 | Roger II | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1071 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1130 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Italy Malta |
The County of Sicily, also known as County of Sicily and Calabria,[1][2] was a Norman state comprising the islands of Sicily and Malta and part of Calabria from 1071 until 1130.[3] The county began to form during the Christian reconquest of Sicily (1061–91) from the Muslim Emirate, established by conquest in 965. The county is thus a transitional period in the history of Sicily. After the Muslims had been defeated and either forced out or incorporated into the Norman military, a further period of transition took place for the county and the Sicilians.