So, what's your opinion about Portugal? That it is the "sucessor" state of Suebic Gallicia, since its capital was Braga, which is near Guimerães, the 1st capital of Portugal, and because it encompassed most of modern Portugal+Galicia? Or, like most people here, that think we are a nation that it is descendent from the Lusitanians that fought under Viriathus. Or do you think we are an artificial "nation" that was formed from the ambition of a count (I am talking about D.Henrique, father of D.Afonso Henriques) that wanted a Kingdom for himseld and his prole, and product of British imperialism? (Since without, Portugal would't be independent after the restoration war) Regards from an internationalist Portuguese dude that is genually interested on an unbiased History of my country, as well on the History of its neighbor.
1. It's not a successor of the Suebi (neither the Galicians) because although their power base was in Galicia and part of Lusitania they didn't have any cultural impact. The Suebi were too few to influence the native population, keep in mind that they were around 30,000 or so, and that Portugal wasn't born several centuries after the fall of the Kingdom of the Suebi under Leovigild. 2. It's not a "descendant of the Lusitanians of Viriathus", just like Spain is not a descendant of the Numantines that fought Roman imperialism. As Spain, Portugal has a Latin/Roman heritage. 3. Yes, Portugal was born under a Medieval dynasty and several times it survived Spanish imperialism some times due to the help of the British, other times just with its own force. The objective of the Reconquista was to somewhat restore the Visigothic Kingdom, which meant that someone should rule all the Iberian Peninsula. Castile could have perfectly made a personal union (and later unification) with Portugal instead of Aragon, but that's how things went. Later in 1580 Philip II was able to incorporate Portugal as one kingdom of the Habsburg Spanish monarchy, and if it wasn't because the revolt of 1640 was successful Portugal would now be a part of Spain, just like Catalonia is because Spain could suppress the revolt there and expel the French. To sum up, Portugal still exists by "accident", it would have been politically integrated in Spain as Galicia, the Basque Country or Catalonia (that is, without eliminating Portuguese culture) if the revolt of 1640 had not been successful. That's why I'm covering also the history of Portugal from its birth until 1640.
Ahora ya sí, dejé de hacerlo en inglés, puedes seguirme en mi nuevo canal de La Historia de España (mira el último vídeo de este sino). Por cierto, estoy rehaciendo los primeros vídeos porque no tenía teleprompter y no tienen la calidad que quiero, así que si los ves antes de que cuelgue los remakes no me juzgues demasiado!
Yea, sure, start out the podcast by saying the single ideological issue that everyone of the time was obsessed with was actually just an ethic Goth thing and not a deeply held religious belief that split the Empire. What a fucking joke, historian must be a completly fake profession to get away with such obvious garbage. While we're at it should we also ignore the mobs of fanatical Christians who followed after Gothic armies? I guess those Christians weren't compelled by an authentic Arian faith just some random desire to loot. Should we also ignore the nearly genocidal rhetoric made by Trinitarianism against Arianism? Oh right that's just an esoteric theological dispute in your mind, not a real ideological demand made on political forces. I cannot fully express the disgust I feel for this claim that the Goths didn't care about the details of their religion. It's historic arrogance on mind-boggling scale to tell the people of the past that they didn't care about the things they said they cared about. It's like all the historians got in a room together and decided to misread the sources.
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So, what's your opinion about Portugal? That it is the "sucessor" state of Suebic Gallicia, since its capital was Braga, which is near Guimerães, the 1st capital of Portugal, and because it encompassed most of modern Portugal+Galicia? Or, like most people here, that think we are a nation that it is descendent from the Lusitanians that fought under Viriathus.
Or do you think we are an artificial "nation" that was formed from the ambition of a count (I am talking about D.Henrique, father of D.Afonso Henriques) that wanted a Kingdom for himseld and his prole, and product of British imperialism? (Since without, Portugal would't be independent after the restoration war)
Regards from an internationalist Portuguese dude that is genually interested on an unbiased History of my country, as well on the History of its neighbor.
1. It's not a successor of the Suebi (neither the Galicians) because although their power base was in Galicia and part of Lusitania they didn't have any cultural impact. The Suebi were too few to influence the native population, keep in mind that they were around 30,000 or so, and that Portugal wasn't born several centuries after the fall of the Kingdom of the Suebi under Leovigild.
2. It's not a "descendant of the Lusitanians of Viriathus", just like Spain is not a descendant of the Numantines that fought Roman imperialism. As Spain, Portugal has a Latin/Roman heritage.
3. Yes, Portugal was born under a Medieval dynasty and several times it survived Spanish imperialism some times due to the help of the British, other times just with its own force. The objective of the Reconquista was to somewhat restore the Visigothic Kingdom, which meant that someone should rule all the Iberian Peninsula. Castile could have perfectly made a personal union (and later unification) with Portugal instead of Aragon, but that's how things went. Later in 1580 Philip II was able to incorporate Portugal as one kingdom of the Habsburg Spanish monarchy, and if it wasn't because the revolt of 1640 was successful Portugal would now be a part of Spain, just like Catalonia is because Spain could suppress the revolt there and expel the French. To sum up, Portugal still exists by "accident", it would have been politically integrated in Spain as Galicia, the Basque Country or Catalonia (that is, without eliminating Portuguese culture) if the revolt of 1640 had not been successful.
That's why I'm covering also the history of Portugal from its birth until 1640.
Porque no haces un video en castellano tu lengua nativa?
Ahora ya sí, dejé de hacerlo en inglés, puedes seguirme en mi nuevo canal de La Historia de España (mira el último vídeo de este sino). Por cierto, estoy rehaciendo los primeros vídeos porque no tenía teleprompter y no tienen la calidad que quiero, así que si los ves antes de que cuelgue los remakes no me juzgues demasiado!
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Same here. My family came from Gijón, Asturias.
Yea, sure, start out the podcast by saying the single ideological issue that everyone of the time was obsessed with was actually just an ethic Goth thing and not a deeply held religious belief that split the Empire. What a fucking joke, historian must be a completly fake profession to get away with such obvious garbage.
While we're at it should we also ignore the mobs of fanatical Christians who followed after Gothic armies? I guess those Christians weren't compelled by an authentic Arian faith just some random desire to loot. Should we also ignore the nearly genocidal rhetoric made by Trinitarianism against Arianism? Oh right that's just an esoteric theological dispute in your mind, not a real ideological demand made on political forces.
I cannot fully express the disgust I feel for this claim that the Goths didn't care about the details of their religion. It's historic arrogance on mind-boggling scale to tell the people of the past that they didn't care about the things they said they cared about. It's like all the historians got in a room together and decided to misread the sources.