Several visigoths nobles competing for power actually assisted and helped guide the Muslim conquerers, providing them with intel on locations deep in the peninsula. Also worth mentioning that the Spanish jews sided with the Muslims.
The same thing happened all along the Mediterranean coast, j*ws always supported and helped the muslim invaders against the eastern roman empire and the different successor states, as they did before. They really hated the romans!
A lot of people don't usually think about this but the Spanish conquest of America (or Americas) has to do a lot with the methods that the Romans and Arabs used in the peninsula rather than comparing them to the British or French. That is why indigenous tribe leaders that sweared loyalty to the Castilian crown where made nobles and the indigenous government structure was kept with the addition of race mixing of the indigenous elites and later a race mixing in the community as a whole lo create a unique identity with the Catholic Church and the Castilian crowns as a glue. It also explains why the Castilian crown became so obsessed with Catholicism, they knew religion and language were dividing factors so made sure to get rid of anything that did not align with the Kigdom.
I'm no expert but I don't think this is a lot different to how the British controlled India for so long, via the British Raj & Princely states systems.
"Religion and language" as dividing factors? Not when the Muslims were in charge of Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in peace there until the Christians took over. Those Christians then set out to dominate and plunder the Americas.
You mentioned at first how the "Spaniards" at first were fighting each other which lead to the weakening of modern Spain, but you didn't mention how the Muslims got weaker from fighting each other? The Muslims did the same thing the Visigoths were doing to each other before the Muslim conquest to Spain and Portugal.
The truth is until the late reconquesta, nobody wanted any kingdom, be it Spanish or moorish, to become to powerful and be able to conquer all the rest. They did a pretty good job of all 3 faiths living together. The great El Cid had very good ties to Zaragoza. At the same time the king of Leon was sent into exile so he went to toledo, under moorish rule. The great AL rahman 2s mother was a Navarro princess and he had blue eyes and light skin. His aunt asked him to send his Jewish doctor because his cousin, and soon to be king of Navarro, was fat.
Probably even worse. Most of the time a leader died, The new leader had to fight off his brothers, uncles and sometimes others. Later on in the ottoman empire, the new leader killed all his brothers so that kind of kept them safe and his son didn't have to deal with his uncles.
And the beggining of reconquista wasnt about religion. Many christians allied themselfs with muslins and many familes mary their sons into different religions. The true goal of reconquista was power, expel the "foreigners" and try to unite iberia under one kingdom. The 10 and 11 century were a complete mess, worst than game of thrones. Many wars between families, counties, kingdoms. But with the depopulation of Iberia because of constant war, many people from France and Germany or Morrocos come to the Peninsula to try established himselfs in life. Thats when things become a litle more religious and with the help of English/French/Germans the muslins were expelled to Granada.
@@CesarLuisAfonsoDias What's crazy is that the Muslims failed to see themselves as one people. They used to side and seek European military aid against other Muslim kingdoms, all for money and power. They only thought about their own greed. The same thing happened to the Ottoman empire with time, with the exception that the Ottomans didn't fight themselves, but were not "fair" (or so as history mentions) in governing the areas they controlled in the Caliphate at the time and thus got a big revolt from the Arabs especially the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula, modernly knows as Saudi Arabia (with the help of the British offcourse). The Ottoman empire was strong at the time and they could of helped. However, I think they saw that its better to keep their current borders and economy safe and secure since they were not going to benefit from Iberia.
@ibraheemabdeen5495 what? That's not true. Jyzsa is only for the dihmis or kaffirs. Never the Muslims, Islam and Sharia law put that in forward. If you told me that's true then Islamic pain wasn't real Islam.
@ibraheemabdeen5495 Non Muslims who were considered ah al-kitab (People of the book) were treated as second class citizens and required to pay a special tax. Not surprisingly during the roughly one thousand years of this treatment many Christians and Jews chose to convert.
@@the4universes207 actually no my guy , first of all, the only ones who were obliged to pay taxes were capable men, meaning old men and children and women in all ages weren't obligated to pay any taxes, and for the men , they were obliged to pay 2.5% of their annual income , u think that's too much ? And when ur talking about taxes , isn't America for example exhausting ppl with multiple taxes that are way more expensive than just 2.5% of their annual income
Fun fact: Most of the Bosnian Jews, mainly in Sarajevo are descendants of the expelled Spanish Jews. Sadly a lot of them were killed during Holocaust in WW2.
Rodriguez is one of the most common surnames in Spain, Rodriguez means son of Rodrigo and Rodrigo comes from Visigothic name Roderic so Rodriguez is a surname of Germanic origin.
@@arlanpereiralima2801 menuda mania que teneis de cambiar muchas cosas en Moro , como por ejemplo la Paella tambien es mora , menos mal que las mentiras no matan que si no no veas 😅 . El nombre de Rodriguez es puro ESPANOL =HISPANICO
@@jojolafrite9265 Tienes razón. Bastante tenemos con que unas 4000 palabras del español provengan del árabe, como para que encima algunos se inventen otras.
One important fact that hasn’t been mentioned in your presentation is that the Northern region of Asturias was never conquered by the Muslim. In fact that’s the region where the “re-conquest” of Iberia begun to develop.
There was no reason to, most fertile land was in the south and the landscape splitting Portugal and Spain is very mountainous terrain. I don’t think they were interested in “ conquering “
Also don't forget that they tried to go up to Francia and got beaten back by Charles Martel, which also managed to (though debatable) stop their momentum
@@thiago292 En la batalla de Covadonga se diezmó demasiado las tropas musulmanas y no tuvieron suficientes efectivos para seguir invadiendo hacia el Norte de Europa y en Francia encontraron una fuerte defensa .
The Arabic influence in Spanish is primarily lexical. Is estimated that around 4,000 Spanish words have some kind of Arabic influence-8% of the Spanish dictionary. Approximately 1,000 of those have Arabic roots, while the other 3,000 are derived words.
Yes, we have a lot of words from old arabic, but vacabulary doesn´t changes the latin sintax, is only lexical enrichment, and many times we have two different words for the same object one from the latin and another from arabic or goth, or even from american natives languages.
Note, the Umayyads, did NOT take the whole of the Iberian peninsula in 711, you seem to have completely overlooked that in the North, in Oviedo, the Christian Visigoths of the region put up a fight and defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Covadonga, preventing them from total control of the peninsula as they were rebuffed by the small newly formed Kingdom of Asturias led by the victor the battle, Pelagius .
@@antoniorangel8277 thank you! someone also gets it. Maybe it's just a nitpick but this channel has been very good with historical videos and this was a big oversight.
Asturias and Cantabria weren't part of Al-Andalus, they were a Christian stronghold during the Muslim occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. The "Cantabrian Refuge" was so well-protected it was the last region in western Europe conquered by the Roman Empire.
Faux La dernière région conquise par les ROMAINS c'etai la LUSITANIA qui a l'époque était entre le Portugal et L'Espagne actuel , ils ont eu tellement de mal a battre les lusitanien que les Romains ont été obligé de embauche des traîtres pour pouvoir assassinée leurs chef lusitanien qui s'appelait VIRIATO , et c'était les derniers a faire face aux ROMAINS. Relisez l'histoire et la VRAI.
It's thought that the refugees, who were mostly aristocrats and their followers, and the need for common defence helped kill off the last remnants of the Celtic language in the region.
Why do they always refer to the king and queen of Spain with the Italian translation of their names? It's something I have never been able to figure out. Their real names are Fernando and Isabel (Spanish), not Ferdinando and Isabella (Italian).
Italian and Spanish language are very identical because of Latin origin. They're the same origin since the Roman Empire and Spanish Empire since both governed Italy and Spain.
Many in English speaking nations can pronounce Spanish words without butchering them, so they prefer using French or Italian ones in ersatz and as a slight to Spaniards. Imagine the French or Spanis using German or Dutch names to ignore the tricky pronunciation of English ones…. Hans Lennon, Jörg Harrischon, Rungen Starrski and Pöl mcCartnung?
I am Brazilian, but on my father's side, the family came from southern Spain, from Granada. They were moors many centuries prior. Supposedly, according to family legend, they were corsairs who served the Spanish crown during the age of sail.
Good video, although it's clearly incomplete. One can not discuss what happened to the muslims of Al-Andalus without talking about the actual Morocco. Cities like Tetouan and Tangier in the north of Morocco have a huge andalusian influence, which was brought by the expelled muslims. Fez as well, and even Tlemçen in Algeria also kept several andalusian traditions and some of the notable families still have unchanged spanish family names like Torres, Perez, Toledano (which means "from Toledo")... It is said that some families still have the keys to their homes in the kingdom of Granada, as a symbol of their andalusian origins.
Es que la PRENSA francesa y Sajona ,no saben como.REBAJARNOS , leyenda negra, y ahora qué??? Venimos de todos los sitios, quién no está "" mezclado "" ??? Y qué conquistador se mezcló con los nativos??? Luego resulta que los matamos a todos!!! Lo que hay de España en el mundo, hablen , pero la verdad!!
Actually, the influence was first the opposite way. Moroccan kings and their soldiers were the first to access Andalusia and were central to the birth of muslim rule of spain. Just look at the architecture etc... It's a copy of what is in Morocco.
@@nc8689 in the era of almoravids whose capital is fez they transported the architecture from fez marackech to al andalous due to the betrayal of arabs they let moroccans fight Spaniards by themselves which resulted in the colonolisation of two morrocan cities ceuta et mellila
Most of the “spanish” muslims were settled in Túnez. They were a minority there until few decades ago. That didn’t happened in “Morocco”, a place in which there were “moriscos” but not so many.
@@CEIVE4EVERMore than 1 million have emigrated to Morocco setteld in tanger, tetouan, fez, rabat, meknes even oudja and the city as chefchaouan was founded by andalusians!
Very informative, thank you! As always the maps and other graphics are well done and a tremendous help. One thing that would help your videos tremendously is less reliance on passive voice. It produces sentences that sound pretentious and indecisive.
Lol How can any serious historian mention this era without mentioning the barbaric inquisition torture compaign used by the "christians" to force Muslims n jews to become trinitarians lol Islam prohibits torture, trinitarians used it again n again including after invading North Africa centuries later on
@@zin_alaabidin في الواقع ، كان الأكثر قسوة الموحدين والمرابطين الذين أتوا مما هو الآن المغرب. لقد نهبوا قرطبة بلا رحمة لدرجة أن المدينة لم تسترد سكانها السابقين بعد.
Overall a really well made and informative summary of the topic. Though very disappointed at the lack of mention of King Pelayo, the Kingdom of Asturias and the Battle of Covadonga which is considered by many to be the start of the Reconquista and the sole reason why, for better or for worse, Hispanic culture/civilisation even exists in the first place today!
Although the information in general was accurate, the maps were incorrect for 1035. Also, Spain as a political entity, did not come about until the late 15th century with the union of the Crowns of Aragon and Castile and the conquest of the Emirate of Granada. For centuries, there were five kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula: Portugal, Castile, Navarre, the Crown of Aragon (a confederation of the Kingdom of Aragon, the Catalan counties, Valencia and the Balearic Islands) and the Emirate of Granada.
It's true. Although the idea of Hispania-Spain is created by the Romans. And the Visigoths reigned in Hispana-Spain in the 6th century. There was already an idea of Spain at that time. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Spaniards from Aragon, Castilla, Galicia or Navarra called themselves Spaniards. El Cid speaks of the Spains, in the plural. There has always been that idea of a single homeland, but with several kingdoms. It's like Germany, which throughout the Middle Ages had 300 or 400 independent kingdoms, united by a highly divided empire, which was definitively united in 1870. Or Italy, which was united in the 1860s. Although Goethe, Beethoven, Raphael or Leonardo da Vinci know that they are German or Italian from different kingdoms.
@@Gloriaimperial1 That Hispania and not España was destroyed in 711. What emerged was al-Andalus and the Asturo-Leonese kingdom of the north. The northern Catalan territories and the Portuguese did NOT identify themselves as Spaniards. Roman Hispania included the province of Lusitania, which would be more or less the territory of Portugal. The Portuguese, who declared their independence from the Leon in the first half of the 12th century, did not consider themselves as Spanish or as Spaniards.After becoming independent from the Frankish kingdom, they were known as the Catalan counties that would join with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the loosely Crown of Aragon, which was a loose confederation that was later conquered the Balearic islands and Valencia. The Asturo-Leonese kingdom would subdivide into León and Castilla. The Leonese Crown did have the claim to Hispania and Alfonso VII crowned himself as emperor of Hispania. Your claim that the Navarrese and Catalans viewed themselves as "Spanish" is not based on any documentation. You provide an oversimplified interpretation of a complex identification of the different elites of the five kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula of the middle ages. I would recommend that you read Miguel Ladero Quesada, Julio Valdeón Baruque, Vicente Álvarez Palenzuela and Luis Suárez Fernández among Spanish medieval historians, and then José Mattoso, Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, A.H. de Oliveira Marques and Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa amongst the Portuguese medieval historians
@@Gloriaimperial1 Your notion of Germany that finally unified under Prussian hegemony in 1871, is no comparison to the Holy Roman Empire or the Confederation of the Rhine or the German Confederation. Although the notion and concept of Germany existed for centuries, many people identified themselves with the crowned leaders of the separate kingdoms, duchies and principalities that existed. This "German particularism" is what kept the German states from uniting. It was only in the 19th century that nationalism brought the different German states together. This notion that in the Middles Ages, people had the same concept and interpretation of nationhood did not exist.
In the video it shows Spanish jews go to Athens but as a Greek I can tell you the majority of them went to Thessaloniki and transformed the city into a cosmopolitan city with flourishing economy. Their population suffered a huge blow from the holocaust and nowdays only few remain there. However you can still see their marks on the city from it's former glory.
Así es como te vuelves musulmán Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada (Di esto para convertirte en musulmán) (Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá) Decir esto te hará sentir feliz..
Did you know that if you prove that you actually descend from those sephardic jews (Iberian Jews) that were expelled from the peninsula, the actual government of Spain will grant you citizenship for living here in Spain?? no test,no paperwork, no waiting, no nothing, just direct citizenship! Great video as alway! much love from Mallorca!
Yeah, but this doesn’t work for the descendants of the Moors. So much for fixing their historical mistakes. Absolute hypocrisy and hate to Muslims and Arabs.
Lol How can any serious historian mention this era without mentioning the barbaric inquisition torture compaign used by the "christians" to force Muslims n jews to become trinitarians lol Islam prohibits torture, trinitarians used it again n again including after invading North Africa centuries later on
Many people don't realize modern day Spanish has fractions of Gothic loanwords in it as a result of the Suevians & Visigoth presense for over 350 years after the fall of Rome.
queso ... is basically the same word as "Käse" in German. The ancient Romans were not big fans of diary products and cheese making, that is something the Gothic tribes brought.
@@nobodyspecial115 Rather not, Spaniards have of course a lot of cultural heritage of Romans, Visigoths, Arabs and North Africans (among many others in less extent), but in comparison the genetic influence was small. Yes, it is surprising very considering historic facts, but genetics studies tell another story. Actual Spaniards largely derives from the pre-Roman inhabitants, For significant genetic changes In the Iberian peninsula, you have to go back much more that two thousands years.
not just Spain. remember, Spain & Portugal share a common history leading up to the Reconquista. any of the people on the Iberian peninsula you're refencing in regards to Spanish history prior to the Reconquista, can also be applied to the Portuguese.
ask the Catalans or the Basques what they think about that statement. Also, Andorra is a co-principality whose heads of state are not princes. One is in fact a bishop in nearby Catalunya (native Andorrans traditionally speak Catalan as their mother tongue). The other non-prince head of state of this co-principality is the Président de la République française. Also, ask a Spanish right-wing extremist what s/he thinks about Portugal. It might be left out of this video for a reason...
Los catalanes no pintan nada ne la historia…nunca fueron un reino, los vascos si, con Navarra, la verdadera tierra vasca, aunque no haya salido en ese mapa, no fue consultada y España nos me formó Amhara’s su unión cok Navarra en 1512 pero bueno…lleno de errores.
Indigenous Islam? Islam is not indigenous to Iberia. Islam is only indigenous to the Arab peninsula. You guys literally showed that Islam is not indigenous to Iberia.
@@nosmokejazwinski6297 it’s a message that came from Muhammad and was started in the Arabian peninsula. Meaning it’s indigenous to Arabia. Just like Judaism and Christianity are indigenous to the levant.
If they hadn't kicked the muslims out they wouldn't of been able to create their empire n sail to South America, everything couldve been different n the Mexican population would be totally different than it is today, it's why history matters imo.
@@petersmith5915 I totally agree. In fact everyone's personal history is the result of what your and my ancestors did hundreds and even thousands of years ago. Stunning to know that.
Actually "Spain" was not born after the conquest of Granada, as Castile and Aragon preserved their laws and institutions, sharing only their common king, for more than 2 centuries.
I was going to say something, but after reading some of the other comments, I realize that there are some very knowledgeable people commenting, and that I am over my head here. Since my dad taught me that it is better to keep one’s mouth shut and have people wonder about one’s state of ignorance on a given subject, than to open one’s mouth and leave no doubt about one’s ignorance. So, everyone have a nice day.
This is True history The muslim go to spain with 5300 warior and his not fiighting the People of vandales (spain) because that belive the jésus the not good ( Follow Saint Arius) same muslims muslims fighting the armes catholique Even Tariq Ibn Ziyad, originally from the Vandals who settled in North Africa before the introduction of Islam, there is a tribe in Morocco today that says that their ancestors were Christians from the Vandals, meaning when they became Muslims, they returned and liberated the Andalusian people from the invading Goths of their homeland Even Tariq Ibn Ziyad, originally from the Vandals who settled in North Africa before the introduction of Islam, there is a tribe in Morocco today that says that their ancestors were Christians from the Vandals, meaning when they became Muslims, they returned and liberated the Andalusian people from the invading Goths of their homeland
They were mostly local Roman-Iberians and Goths, they adopted Islam and Christianity several times throw all those centuries, just like they left paganism, they left Christianity, and Islam after that to become Christians again.
True, ruling class and the common people, don't have to share same religion values (or grade of fanaticism) and ethnicity. I think for a lot of people back then changing religion was more a pragmatical decision than a faith one, changing or not religion can make you avoid/add dangers or make better/worst in live.
But when it comes to egypt and others who are so called "ARAB Countries" you say that arabs have replaced the indigenous population? Why the double standards?
@@The_ready_guy Maybe you mistake Arab the language, Arab the culture and Arab the ethnicity. I have Moroccan friends and they really get offended if you call them arabs specially one that is amazig. In the case of Egypt, polititians as Nasser did a great effort to mix the Arab label with Egypt. I dont think is double standard, is more a question of being precise.
@@The_ready_guy They did in those places because they were closer and stayed for longer. Anyway, most of the North Africans are still Berbers for example... It really depends where.
Majority Muslim in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) are local people from Vandals. They're converted to Islam because the Church and the nobles are always oppressed them. You can watch their history in "When Moors rules the Europe" by Bettany Hughes. The Vandals after Muslim are called Vandalusian or Andalusian, so their land become Al-Vandals or Al-Andalus.
We have to get the timeline straight to begin … when the Umayyads conquered the Iberian Peninusula, there WAS NO kingdom of Asturia. Like other regions of Iberia, the area was ruled by the Visigoths. And, the Umayyads DID conquer the whole territory. Completely. Only after some years did the rebels regroup in the mountains. THe Umayyads were already in modern France fighting their way upwards. Get your facts straight Mr. Garcia.
...sem sequer falarmos do facto de a ocupação moura para norte do Mondego ter sido sempre muito fraca, era uma zona de fronteira, uma espécie de terra de ninguém.
The last visigothic kingdom lasted till 720 from King Aldo. Battle of Covadonga happened in 720-722. You could say the local christians refuse to give up their lands in Iberia.
I live in Andalusia and never knew where the name came from, if you travel in the Las Alpujarras there are still churches with the Star of David and the Muslim crescent side by side.
El nombre proviene de los Vándalos, una tribu germana que fundó un reino en el norte de África, llegando desde el sur de Hispania. Por eso esa zona era conocida como la tierra de los (v)ándalos.
Most people who live in Andalusia don't know anything about Al-Andalus history. They erased that part of your history. Despite it represents more than seven centuries. So unfortunate.
Two major blunders in this video: 1. Missing that the Asturias were never conquered by the Muslims and actually was the root of the "Reconquista"; 2. Missing completely the importance of Portugal, that actually became a Kingdom with all its defined borders much earlier than Spain, had vanquished the Moors by mid 13th century. All Muslims were formally expelled from Portugal in the late 15 Century
Muslims when in spain They where every Search about Fraxinetum In france South italy Parts of Switzerland They left a building with Arabic-Islamic inscriptions in Italy and France, and they left some plants
The Spanish kingdom of León gained the border of Portugal and granted independence to the Kingdom of Portugal. They would later lose it. Spain is, without counting the city-state of San Marino, the oldest country in Europe. And the Suevi Kindom of Galicia the first feudal Kindom, and The Courts of Leon, the first Parlament of the World.
@@jorgeo4483 _"Spain is, without counting the city-state of San Marino, the oldest country in Europe."_ Define "country" The Roman Republic was founded in 509 BC. The Roman Kingdom was founded in 753 BC. Of course if you mean oldest country in Europe that still exists as a country, well, isn't the oldest country in Europe (after San Marino) Denmark, established between 700 and 800 AD? _"And the Suevi Kindom of Galicia the first feudal Kindom,"_ Scholars indicate that feudalism in western Europe took root in 8th century France... _"and The Courts of Leon, the first Parlament of the World."_ The Icelandic Parliament, Althingi, is the oldest parliament in the world. It was established in 930 AD at Thingvellir National Park.
Nice video, nicely narrated and animated. But my point is that the title is wrong, there never was a muslim majority, Spain was occupied by the moors, most muslims lived in the cities, not around the countryside, with the christian majority, essentially the rabble for the muslim ruling class, which still maintained strong links to the wider islamic world, in case they were to lose their position and wealth.
Exactly, the Muslims were never a majority in Spain and Portugal, and neither were the Visigoths. The Iberian Peninsula was -- from even before Roman times -- a mixture of ethnic groups, predominantly the CeltoIberians. Then came groups like the Phoenicians, the Greeks (who were Germanic), the Carthaginians (Originally from the Middle East mixed with Hametic influences), and the the Latins from Italy. By the time the Muslims arrived, several million people with this mixed background were already there. Unlike, for example, the Ottomans who overtook Anatolia altogether, the cultural aspects and language of the Andalusians in Spain were secondary.
Found so much world history when I started family genealogy about four years ago. I have data for three areas that you show: Spain, North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. Recently, I had a blessing of buying a National Geographic magazine of November 1986 from a bookstore: Our Search for the True Columbus Landfall. Your info of January and March 1492 gives me a little more information of what was going on with Isabella and Ferdinand, and why they finally gave into Columbus. Here “we” are with technology to send people to the Moon, and machines to Mars, and yet these persons, such as Columbus, are crossing “the ocean blue in 1492” with their technology. It’s amazing!!!
@@carstenhansen5757 llegaron si llegaron ,mas perdidos que un burro en un garaje Segun parece Colon llego nadando desde Europa Muchas respuestas dan risa
@@carstenhansen5757 lol Spain built 350 hospitals in the 16 the century made grammars of the native languages before French and German grammars, built ciities that are Unesco world heritage sites, made the 1st world map including America like Juan de la Cosa`s map, discovered and described the nature of the Americas, from Alaska to Iguazu Falls, the plants and animals in dozens of treatises, described and NAMED the Pacific Ocean and many territories of actual USA, founded hundred of cities (from San Agustín de la Florida to San Francisco to Buenos Aires), described in Chronicles the conquest of Empires, etc. etc. etc. What did the Vikings leave?
@@lauramartin-bk9nr Yeah, it's easy when you plunder south America, to finance it. The conquistadors, were no different from the vikings. The vikings, was not a nation and common identity. The point still stands. Why are you so butt hurt over it?
Lots of factual errors here. Firstly the Muslims never conquered all of Spain. Asturias for example, was never taken by the Muslims. Secondly, many of the influential Muslims didn't come from North Africa, but they came from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Cordoba was the capital of Al Andaluz and the Caliphate was Persian, not North African. Lastly, more Witches died in England than Jews died in the Spanish inquisition.
Muslims took control of the cities that time from the era of the Roman Roman Empire, Asturias are those who hide in the mountain and start building their city, the Muslims did push hard because they are nothing to conquer in the mountains and hard to protect so they move to France
lmao what ? Andalus was Persian ? only reason Umayyads got rebelled on was because of their non tolerance to non arabs, i assure you that Al Andalus’s court language was not persian, jews and Muslims were expelled after Granada was conquered, many of them went to the Ottoman Empire who welcomed them
Asturias (and part of Cantabria) were never under Muslim rule, in fact, there is a popular saying that says: "Asturias is Spain, the rest is conquered land".
@@spidey7628 this is the stupidest and most of all ignorant answer in the history of Spain and Portugal, it would have been enough to study at least superficially the history to know that the moriscos, those who by their intention converted to Catholic Christianity were expelled since Arabs from North Africa and not Iberian Europeans because of a whole series of problems they caused, which I'm not going to explain here, which is well known to everyone especially historians and which I'll leave you to inquire about, the last ones were those of Valencia and other minor cities, you should study and know the history before you say ignorant nonsense.
@@spidey7628 this is the stupidest and above all ignorant answer in the history of Spain and Portugal, it would have been enough to study at least superficially the history to know that the moriscos, those who by their intention converted to Catholic Christianity were expelled since they were Arabs from North Africa and not Iberian Europeans because of a whole series of problems they caused, which I'm not going to explain here, which is well known to everyone especially historians and which I'll leave you to inquire about, the last ones were those of Valencia and other minor cities, you should study and know the history before you say ignorant nonsense.
It can also be attributed to the cultural differences of the locals to that of a foreign religion, that made it slowly seem irrelevant to adopt long term. Spain is bordered by very strong Christian influences, of which would need continueous islamic influence for it to sustain the majority. Its not a surprise when Islamic empires were in a decline that the outer influences of other religions managed to pierce through and hold.
The biggest fear of the Spanish moors wasn't the Spanish until late in the reconquesta. It was that the abassid or Fatma Muslims or other Muslim groups would cross over from morroco and take them over.
the inquisition was a genocide and that is why Muslims in Spain disappeared not because of “influences”. Andalusia had been ruled by Muslims for centuries and the people were very familiar with Islam!
The answer is torture, murder, and secret inquisition courts whose caves are still under the churches today, until it came to the point that bathing was forbidden by the kingdom to know the Muslim from the Christian because the Christians were forbidden from bathing by the Catholic Church.
Iberia has always been Christian and always will be. At the end of the history of Arab Muslim colonization, all is well that ends well, just as it ended, with the invaders having returned home.
Lots of inconsistencies in this video. Firstly Al-Andalus never conquered the northernmost regions of the peninsula, Asturias, Aragón and others retained their independence and while we can speak in modern times of the process of "reconquista", this was never even an idea for those small Christian kingdoms vying for survival. Also, Castile was born alongside other kingdoms such as León and even Galicia, and ended up ruling over the others through marriage, force, etc. Spain wasn't a thing until a few centuries later. And why did you leave out Rossellón in France? Why did you use modern borders and cities?
Yeah this whole video series leaves me unconvinced. It's not academically robust, it seems like there is a political agenda behind it but we don't know which, though I doubt it is one based on love and acceptance of the other. Ironic that now we have the world's knowledge at our fingertips, if we read or see anything on the internet now, we need to go to the physical library to check if it is legit or misinformation or what. Digital era... underwhelming.
Yeah, not the first time when this content creator doing inaccuracies. Now i'm clicking don't recommend on youtube main page, to avoid getting dissinformation.
Fairly brief but accurate video. The Spanish language is incredibly similar to Italian, Portuguese and even French, and has very little to do with Arabic (in fact, it has inherited some dozens of words from Arabic but from a linguistic point of view is a totally different language). This can give us an idea to which extent both cultures were mixed, even though it cannot be denied the relevant impact of the Arabs within Architecture, Cuisine, Agriculture, Chemistry, and some other aspects in the Iberian Peninsula. The main roots of modern Spain come undoubtedly mainly from Rome though.
It's quietly similar to several old prehistoric languages. Gaelic words of very little known prehistoric times, due to the little known Gaelic secrets the languages similarities don't surprise me. Gaelic life was wider than modern people realize.
There were some theological basis for the internecine strife among the Visigoths, as well as for the alliance between the Muslims and a faction of the Visigoths. These basis were the opposition between, on the one had, the non-trinitarian arian Christianity and the unity or tawhid of Muslims, and, on the other hand, the Catholic trinity of the Visigoths recently converted to Catholicism.
Actually was merely a matter of political Power as stated here. No real issue on differences of spirituality or teoretichal sides. Again the islamic armies brought Power and Money and that unfortunately let to a Quick change over. Mostly of the "elite" ex.visigoth remain in reality Cristian as a way they declared themaelves, even of they were loyal to the occupant ruler. And widegenerally, the spanish populatoon remained christian. Only the poorer as cant provide the "tax" to stay christian became muslim ti.avoid their death and of their.family. but the vast majority of iberians remaina Christian
@@samiabdullahal-jaber5939 Never in ancient times power was detached from religious matters. Many of the leading Muslim families -like the Banu Qasi- were Visigoths originally. The Muslims brought over a cultural revolution, more than anything. It's important to observe that, nevertheless, the most developed and rich regions in the Islamic world were not Arab themselves, such as Persia or Andalusia.
It is actually more nuanced than that because the main body was comprised of Geta(non germanic population, of palasgic origin that spoke a language that was similar to latin but older) not Goths. As proof, the name of the hero king is Pelagius.
Fast forward a few centuries: I’m from Guatemala, my last name Alfaro is from a city from the same name in the county of La roja Spain, originally from the Arabic Al-farras which meant torch bearer… then adapted to Spanish Faro which means “lighthouse” or “beacon”… the AL remained to the point that “AL” means “to” and “faro” means “lighthouse” so together “Alfaro” means “to the lighthouse” (in a literal translation)….. similarly last names in Spanish also have either an occupation or trait that resonates with them (Herrera =“ herrero”= blacksmith) and so on….. historically Alfaro was of noble lineage but I’m pretty sure we’re bottom of the barrel to claim the Spanish throne (although we can battle royal it to settle it)
That is very interesting. It helps connect the present with the past. It is also fun to learn something about language roots. Spanish is not just strictly a Latin language.
To understand better, you have to see that the Muslims were not always United in Iberian peninsula, almoads, omiads, almoravids and kingdom Nazari and between these periods were the Taifa periods, meaning there were fragmentation of the Muslim rulers and during these periods there were internal struggles and fights and fierce battles! The periods of internal chaos during Muslim rulers were the perfect periods for the Catholic rulers take back territory, sometimes even with alliances with Muslims! These is interesting, because it shows why the Catholic rulers were in the beginning tolerate towards the Muslims! One example of intolerance was the first conquest of Silves, in Algarve, when the Portuguese troops among with crusaders conquered the city and killed everyone inside... There were lots of crimes made during these period of Reconquista, because the killing of the population and destruction of heritage just pushed back the develop of lots cities, that were very rich economically
Así es como te vuelves musulmán Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada (Di esto para convertirte en musulmán) (Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá) Decir esto te hará sentir feliz..
The Muslims also took advantage of the visigoths being at war with each other, when they first arrived in the Peninsula. The Moors were even more intolerable! It's for a reason that nowadays there are barely any Germanic ruins or city or parishes that have Germanic names Iberia. The moors destroyed and renamed everything. There were small population that still spoke Germanic languages, but they were destroyed by the moors
No way. Catholic population NEVER became Muslim's. They only looked like they did but they never converted as they took over Spain again. Spanish Catholics were smart!
I am a descendant of these Andalusians. My last name is a hispinized version of an arabic name. Interestingly enough my family name is also the name a prominent persian polymath during the islamic golden age. I am from the Philippines.
@@ziyad5368 quite a number of us have spanish blood. My great grandfather was from Spain. Remember we were a Spanish colony for 300 years, also got chinese blood within me. The Philippines is a melting pot of sorts, filipinos that look malay, some look chinese others closely resemble europeans.
@@mankarseptim4528 Filipinos with actual Spanish ancestors are a small minority. As you surely know most Filipinos with a Spanish surname do not have any Spanish blood. Spanish surnames were imposed by the colonizers, people chose a surname from a list given to them.
@@aquelpibe yeah it’s quite easy to tell, native filipinos have a certain look to them. But I can assure you that I myself actually have spanish and andalusian blood, as mentioned my great grandfather who did in fact have my current last name was european spanish. My name is of arabic origins and as you can imagine I wouldn’t want to share it to a stranger online for the sake of my privacy. But often I’ve been questioned of my origins, taller than most people here, got fairer skin and natural brown hair. But honestly my middle-eastern dna is quite diluted only reason I know of it was again my last name of arabic origins. I know we filipinos have a reputation for being quite “slow”, in online spaces especially when it comes to history, I wouldn’t really object honestly afterall look at the man we voted for. But I’ve got a good grasp of history.
There were also Christians and Jews in Arabia before Islam. Look how that worked out for them. Times were tough and harsh back then. To make the Spanish Christians look like they were these singularly bad and intolerant actors just smacks of the typical anti-Christian and anti- Western rhetoric that is so in vogue these days. I’d also say that life as a dhimmi in Muslim Spain was no great shakes either.
اليهود تم طردهم من الحجاز لانهم تحالفو مع المشركين ضد المسلمين و خانو العهود و المواثيق المبرمة مع المسلمين و ليس لانهم يهود...اقرأ التاريخ قبل ان تتحدث
It may well be that this is a case of borders changing over time, but I visited a city near the southern coast of Portugal many years ago (might have been Sintra?) & we went to a castle there - and it had been built by Muslims who were in control at the time - it had a very impressive water cistern, very interesting. So it must have been that the Muslim invasion did also happen to Portugal or that area was within Spanish territory at the time.
There was never a Muslim majority in Spain. The Islamists were always less than 10% of the population, but they had a powerful army, with mercenaries from Africa and Eastern Europe, in medieval times. Then the Islamists of Spain allied themselves with the pirates of Algeria and the Turkish empire, to invade Spain, and Spain expelled those who did not become Catholics. Imagine that kind of rebellion now in Paris or New York.
اذا كان المسلمون يمتلكون القوة والسلاح لمذا لم يقتلوا ويبيدوا المواطنين الاصليين المسيحيين؟ فلمذا لم يمارس المسلمون التطهير العرقي كما فعل المسيحيين للمسلمين؟ الاندلس كانت تابعة للمسلمين اكثر من 800 سنة ومع ذلك لم نخرب ثقافتكم وهويتكم لمذا لا تتكلمون العربية ؟
@@bounyabk946 They didn't kill them all so they could extract taxation, do you not know how Empires work? Plenty of historical records of Muslims cleansing Christians and jews You didn't destroy nothing? so where is the Visigoth history? where are the Giant buddhas? pathetic apologist...
During the nineteen fifties across North Africa and the Middle East in general the population was twenty percent non Muslim. Today that is one percent, no-one asking where those people went.
Well the word 'Islam" actually means 'Submission" not "peace" as they claim, so if you didn't want to Submit, it was best to just leave !!! That faith tends to 'breed' a bunch of humans who do not argue or rebel against the system ! Much easier to control people who are scared of being stoned or beheaded for some small error or disagreement !
To Europe and Israel. The French took some of them with them when they left North Africa. For economic reasons many left for Israel. Jews and Christian’s had many religious freedoms in Northern Africa and there was never any hate towards them since North Africa itself used to be Christian. There was never and kind of ethnic cleansing in North Africa that was even close to that what the Germanic people that conquerod modern day Spain did.
@srg25008 I would say that seeing what happened in Europe when you dragged your feet and hoped-for the best .Quite a few took the option of going before they were pushed. Nevertheless, direct persecution did and does take place especially in Iran Iraq, Syria ,Yemen , with the Christian people of Lebanon find their homes and land being used by Hezbolla to fire rockets into northern Israel. Then we come back to the Koran being the one and only religious text that advocates death to non Muslims.
@@بنيهلالالسادةPhoenician not Syrian. “Arabism” would be more accurately called semitism. As Arabia had almost no impact on Mediterranean culture when compared with the Phoenician/Cathaginian, Hittites, Egyptians, Greeks/Myceneans, Persians, Assyrians , pre-623.
The moors never had complete control over the entire Spanish peninsula; at its peak, the moors ruled probably a little over 75% of the land for a stint of time.
The Moors never dominated anything because the ruling classes were always an Arab minority, which is why the Berber revolt of 740 occurred against their Arab masters who gave them the disputed border lands while they kept the richest cities in southern Spain.
@@Abderraoufnefnaf The Umayyads controlled a huge territory, it is normal that people from all over their empire entered the peninsula but I do not believe that a region as far away as Yemen had a large presence here, the majority of Muslims who arrived after 711 are North Africans led by an Arab minority .
Well for ONE thing, the muslims were never a "majority" in Spain. They were never more than a small minority who happened to conquer most of Spain in the 8th Century. And the Christian kingdoms spent some 700 years taking it back (Reconquista). So the title is misleading. There WERE no muslims prior to the Muslim invasion in the early 700s. They invaded and defeated the ruling Visigoths.
the muslims never conquered the entirety of the iberian peninsula, asturias kept their independence and that was the starting point for the reconquista
@@asturiasceltic3183 pues los estudios geneticos demuestran que la herencia genetica magrebi esta mas presente en galicia que en andalucia y la historia que no miente es que los musulmanes invadieron asturias
He didn't mentioned one of the biggest reasons why al andalus failed the taifas who were fighting each other instead of fighting their enemies because of them the Muslims lost the majority of the big cities and he called the Muslims invaders like the visigdos were the natives of Iberia
To be fair, the Visigoths were much easier to melt with the natives than the Muslims. They were romanized l, kept up Roman traditions, and even abandoned their language and religion later on.
It's simple. The native Iberians saw Celts as invaders. The Celt-Iberians saw the Romans as invaders. The Hispano-Romans saw the Visigoths as invaders The Visigothic Hispanians saw the Moors as invaders. The Moors were however expelled and so we are left with the final POV: Visigoth native vs Moorish invader. Had it been 3 centuries earlier and the Visigoths were kicked out, we'd remember today of the brave men that pushed out the Visigothic invaders. Iberia is a land of invaders, "indigenous" is an hard term to use because we are descendant of all the invasions and settlments of the peninsula. If you want hard and literal indegenous peoples of modern Spain, I'd say the Basque people, who even predate the Iberian peoples, are the ones.
@@miguelpadeiro762 The Iberians didn’t see the celts as invaders, it was more like a migration than invasion, even if they encompassed the entire peninsula. They actually intermingled and created a mixed culture called Celt-Iberian in the middle. At first, the hispano-Romans saw the Visigoths as liberators from the tribes that settled there and the declining Roman Empire that had a shit economy. They actually sided with the Visigoths because they paid way less taxes under them, in fact they barely did. It was their religion that was a problem, which they saw as heretical. It took some time for the Visigoths to melt into the native population but they eventually dropped their gothic language, religion, and made some progressive laws that United them together, which actually helped with the reconquista in a way since they were intertwined. The moors were kicked out because the Spanish saw their culture and them as alien. The Visigoths were already romanized and actually maintained Roman institutions, it makes sense because the Visigoths had endless Roman contact from the East to West since the time of Constantine. Maybe a little before that. Majority of modern Iberians make up the celtic and Iberian tribes that settled in the peninsula based on dna tests. The rest are from the Visigoths/Suebi, North Africans, etc.
@@CarvedStones dead wrong. People don't change language through peaceful means. The celts couldn't have made people speak their language through peaceful means
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl Some can, like the aforementioned Visigoths who switched from gothic to Latin, and so did the celts somewhat. Celtic (the Iberian celtic languages) and Latin sound so similar either way, it’s probably why they dropped it all together. Keep in mind that celts have blended in with the Iberians at that point too.
Empezamos mal con el título. ¿Cómo que la mayoría musulmana de España? Eso no es cierto, nunca hubo una mayoría musulmana en España otra cosa es que conquistaran la mayor parte de la península, pero España no dejó de ser cristiana e incluso había judíos.
@@Thelastofusfan297 Esa Kaaba podría ser transformada en un magnifico confesionario católico🤩 Edit: El mahometano cobarde edito y saco el emote de la Kaaba que había utilizado en su comentario, evidenciando su diminutez.
Stop saying that spanish were christian they weren't christian before, they were pagans and other beliefes, there was the romans who converted them into Christianity
Thank you for this interesting historical breakdown. 🇪🇸🤜💥🤛🇵🇹 It seems that a large portion of your comments section should create a history channel themselves. Bark & no bite is my theory on that.
Así es como te vuelves musulmán Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada (Di esto para convertirte en musulmán) (Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá) Decir esto te hará sentir feliz..
@@Handle0108 actually it wasn't like that, most of Portugal was under the rule of "suevos", and Bilbao was under "vascoes", while the rest of iberia was under the rule of Visigoths. Nonetheless Portugal was under Spain during 1580-1640 a completely different period.
حصلت لهم محاكم تفتيش و تم قتلهم و طردهم من الارض ؟!!😂😂😂 فعلا حالتكم مثيرة للسخرية ...تحاولون تبرير الفضائع و الوحشية بالبحث و التدقيق في تاريخ المسلمين....عندما سيطر المسلمون على الاندلس كل الديانات تعايشت بسلام ...و لو طبق المسلمون نفس سياستكم لانقرضت المسيحية من قرون
Así es como te vuelves musulmán Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada (Di esto para convertirte en musulmán) (Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá) Decir esto te hará sentir feliz.
Arab Soldier in 8th Century: Where are those darn Christians, we want to go fight them! Peasant: How should I know, I'm Muslim and my family has been for centuries! Castilian Soldier in 13th century: Where are those darn Muslims, we want to go fight them! Peasant: How should I know, I'm Christian and my family has been for centuries!
Funny that how or why residents of formerly Visigothic Hispania converted to Islam is swept aside completely. Even though we know EXACTLY how Islam wins its converts, both historically and contemporarily. Nobody will touch that topic. Use of the phrase “indigenous Islam” later in the video says it all.
Agreed. This video glosses over 700 years of conquest and occupation very quickly, even calling the time between the Muslim Conquest and the Reconquistia "soon." After that long a period of foreign rule -- and, yes, it was foreign, based in the Arabian peninsula -- a people just having achieved a hard-won autonomy will take no chances. The first to go will always be the true power-brokers of the invaders -- in this case, the Jewish population of the Caliphate. Re: the Ottomans -- after incessant invasions into Europe finally resulted in the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Spanish rulers in 1492 would take no chances with "tolerance." It's no coincidence that the discovery of the New World and the Reconquista happened in the same year -- the Turks cut off access to the Black Sea and the Silk Road; a new route to the Far East had to be discovered. Invasion from Asia and Africa into Europe had been incessant, as was the capture and enslavement of European peoples by Ottomans, Arabs, Jews, Turks, and North Africans. Finally defending themselves led to these societies to look elsewhere, to Africa, for their odious slave trade.
Some Muslims who converted moved to the Americas and the Philippines, where their descendents remain. Still, most Muslims fled to North Africa, where they arabized the entire region.
@@kuroazrem5376 They only linguistically Arabized the region. North-Morocco and North-west-Algeria has always been berber/amazigh. Never have Arabs or arabized people settled there. It is only until the Andalusians settled there due to their expulsion from Iberia that people started speaking more Arabic there. That's why people surrounding the Andalusian cities in those regions are always Berber people. even though it's the same or almost the same region.
As a Spaniard and a proud Andalusian,I will tell you we got rid of them. Don't try to bring your false prophets to España. Jesus is King,No mortal or other false god will ever be higher.
@@FidelCashflow13 can someone who defended Jesus, when he was called a b@stard, and defended his mother, when she was accused of all sorts of henious immoral acts, be a false prophet?
Records from as late as the eleventh century show Christian towns that Muslim authorities in the taifa kingdom of Granada considered potentially subversive. The Almoravids deported many Christians en masse to North Africa to punish them or prevent their collaboration with Christian warriors of the Reconquest. As for the Almohads, they concluded that only forced conversion could take care of the multicultural problem that these suspect Christian communities posed. Some Christian churches survived in Huesca until Christian forces retook the city in 1096. Until the eleventh century a few churches and monasteries remained in the rural villages of Islamic Spain. All these details indicate a Christian culture that indeed was declining under Islamic hegemony but that nonetheless refused to die.83
Spain is much earlier than that. From the Roman province of Hispania and later visigoth Kingdom of Hispania. Portugal was a spanish County, like Castilla at the beginning. And England has done its best to keep Portugal apart from the rest of Hispania.
@@yrenetino6229 Lusitania was a piece of Hispania, like Baetica or Tarraconense. In fact Lusitania included what today is South Portugal, part of Extremadura, etc. The visigoth kings called themselves Hispaniarum Rex for all the peninsula, south France and northern part of current Morocco.
@@alazraq6475 Portugal is the only kingdom on the Iberian peninsula to have never been conquered by Castille. and the reason is simple, Portugal had a very powerful kingdom that viscously fought for their independence. and at the time Columbus first set sail, the Portuguese actually had the most advanced naval force on the planet. during the 15th century, whenever the Castilians made the mistake of challenging the Portuguese in the oceans, it ended quite badly for them
Funny how Portugal, despite being part of the Iberian peninsula, was completely ignored in this video lol, there is no doubt it is a region of Spain hahahahaha
@@knightheaven8992 true. And the one time the Portuguese crown fell on the head of Spanish monarchs, it was under a personal union. Hence the Portuguese never got to be Spanish.
@@morocco8990 and now nortyh african muslims have French paternal DNA all ur women just had so much baugette in the last 100 years you have European DNA now
@@andrewtate8466 Not at all, the only Moroccans with partially European DNA are the people of Northern Morocco, because most of them are Moriscos (Muslims of Iberian Peninsula) who were displaced by Catholics when they invaded Andalusia.
@@morocco8990 that sounds like copium, FRANCE annexed morocco .algeria, tunisia for centuries and your telling me they didnt get down funky with your women? naaah i know for sure algerians are 80% French paternal DNA ..and Morisco are muslim andalusians who converted to Catholicism. you coping hard right now
_("Spain's king")_ James I of Aragon said: *_“For God and for saving Spain, we will free this land from the Moors”_* The last time Muslims colonized Spain, it took 8 centuries of hard struggle to reverse the process.
This will also happen in West Africa and Morocco. We will repel the Mohammedan forces out of West Africa and Morocco. Only Catholicism will remain in West Africa and Morocco.
Muslims were never a majority in Spain, so the minority were given the opportunity to convert or leave the country peacefully. It's more than enough for that time
I think they were, for a short time (even in the muslim ruled zone christians were majoriti until 11th century and by early-mid 13th century most of Spain was already in christian hands again).
Next video: what happened to the north african pagans, jews and christians after the islamic conquest during the 8th century? Now that would be interesting.
@@Thelastofusfan297 even as a staunch catholic, can't deny your words. It's ahistorical and incoherent to apply modern principles to the past as we do with european empires, trying to judge them under the current mindset.
As long as the video after that is on what happened to pagans in North Africa, rest of the Roman Empire, Germania, land of the Slavs, land of the Romuva, and the entire Mesoamerica (it's an incomplete list btw). Bonus points for mentioning the hundreds of pagan temples either destroyed or "repurosed" as churches.
It may seems harsh but what they Spanish royals did was fairly tolerant within in tolerance. He gave them an option of convert or a lengthy period of three years to prepare to leave. From the point of view of the Spanish, they had been conquered, subjugated and made second class citizens in their own nation for centuries. Seen in the context or harsh times of the past, it doesn't seem too extreme what they did. Especially when you take into account their concern for a possible resurgence of Islamic forces.
@@debsaye3360 Well, to also be fair to Islamic conquerors of the middle ages, many of those regimes were pretty fair. Not fully fair but reasonably fair and they allowed Christian people's to live among them. Though they put so much pressure on them to convert that over time most did. The Mongols were probably the worst in history though. Pretty much just genocidal as default.
@@debsaye3360 'Most of the time' is a general statement that you can't back up with historical records. We are discussing history here not just venting prejudice.
@@swashbukk he means during Islamic Spain inside that glorious civilisation not that animalistic civilisation that the french and German Christian barbarians came with
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Several visigoths nobles competing for power actually assisted and helped guide the Muslim conquerers, providing them with intel on locations deep in the peninsula. Also worth mentioning that the Spanish jews sided with the Muslims.
The same thing happened all along the Mediterranean coast, j*ws always supported and helped the muslim invaders against the eastern roman empire and the different successor states, as they did before. They really hated the romans!
So probably why the Jews were expelled later on🤷
Oy vey
Rub hands intensifies
Jews sided with hitler, not suprised
A lot of people don't usually think about this but the Spanish conquest of America (or Americas) has to do a lot with the methods that the Romans and Arabs used in the peninsula rather than comparing them to the British or French. That is why indigenous tribe leaders that sweared loyalty to the Castilian crown where made nobles and the indigenous government structure was kept with the addition of race mixing of the indigenous elites and later a race mixing in the community as a whole lo create a unique identity with the Catholic Church and the Castilian crowns as a glue. It also explains why the Castilian crown became so obsessed with Catholicism, they knew religion and language were dividing factors so made sure to get rid of anything that did not align with the Kigdom.
I'm no expert but I don't think this is a lot different to how the British controlled India for so long, via the British Raj & Princely states systems.
"Religion and language" as dividing factors? Not when the Muslims were in charge of Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in peace there until the Christians took over. Those Christians then set out to dominate and plunder the Americas.
As someone that has traveled down through, I'd say you're right you can definitely see it in the cities, and I'd say the Portuguese did the same.
@@ChrisHUTTON-zc4br Difference is the Spanish was doing a lot of "procreating" with the locals and slaves compared the the brits and frogs.
wow so interesting to see how cause and effect in history
You mentioned at first how the "Spaniards" at first were fighting each other which lead to the weakening of modern Spain, but you didn't mention how the Muslims got weaker from fighting each other? The Muslims did the same thing the Visigoths were doing to each other before the Muslim conquest to Spain and Portugal.
The truth is until the late reconquesta, nobody wanted any kingdom, be it Spanish or moorish, to become to powerful and be able to conquer all the rest. They did a pretty good job of all 3 faiths living together. The great El Cid had very good ties to Zaragoza. At the same time the king of Leon was sent into exile so he went to toledo, under moorish rule. The great AL rahman 2s mother was a Navarro princess and he had blue eyes and light skin. His aunt asked him to send his Jewish doctor because his cousin, and soon to be king of Navarro, was fat.
Probably even worse. Most of the time a leader died, The new leader had to fight off his brothers, uncles and sometimes others. Later on in the ottoman empire, the new leader killed all his brothers so that kind of kept them safe and his son didn't have to deal with his uncles.
And the beggining of reconquista wasnt about religion. Many christians allied themselfs with muslins and many familes mary their sons into different religions.
The true goal of reconquista was power, expel the "foreigners" and try to unite iberia under one kingdom.
The 10 and 11 century were a complete mess, worst than game of thrones. Many wars between families, counties, kingdoms.
But with the depopulation of Iberia because of constant war, many people from France and Germany or Morrocos come to the Peninsula to try established himselfs in life.
Thats when things become a litle more religious and with the help of English/French/Germans the muslins were expelled to Granada.
@@CesarLuisAfonsoDias exactly, conflicts are never as simple as 1 religion vs another
@@CesarLuisAfonsoDias What's crazy is that the Muslims failed to see themselves as one people. They used to side and seek European military aid against other Muslim kingdoms, all for money and power. They only thought about their own greed. The same thing happened to the Ottoman empire with time, with the exception that the Ottomans didn't fight themselves, but were not "fair" (or so as history mentions) in governing the areas they controlled in the Caliphate at the time and thus got a big revolt from the Arabs especially the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula, modernly knows as Saudi Arabia (with the help of the British offcourse).
The Ottoman empire was strong at the time and they could of helped. However, I think they saw that its better to keep their current borders and economy safe and secure since they were not going to benefit from Iberia.
What happened to the Christian majority in Turkey and all throughout the Byzantine empire?
Yes islam is a dangerous cult praise lord
@ibraheemabdeen5495forcefully they were converted by the dihmi taxes
@ibraheemabdeen5495 what? That's not true. Jyzsa is only for the dihmis or kaffirs. Never the Muslims, Islam and Sharia law put that in forward. If you told me that's true then Islamic pain wasn't real Islam.
@ibraheemabdeen5495 Non Muslims who were considered ah al-kitab (People of the book) were treated as second class citizens and required to pay a special tax. Not surprisingly during the roughly one thousand years of this treatment many Christians and Jews chose to convert.
@@the4universes207 actually no my guy , first of all, the only ones who were obliged to pay taxes were capable men, meaning old men and children and women in all ages weren't obligated to pay any taxes, and for the men , they were obliged to pay 2.5% of their annual income , u think that's too much ? And when ur talking about taxes , isn't America for example exhausting ppl with multiple taxes that are way more expensive than just 2.5% of their annual income
Fun fact: Most of the Bosnian Jews, mainly in Sarajevo are descendants of the expelled Spanish Jews. Sadly a lot of them were killed during Holocaust in WW2.
"fun fact"😀
Cool
they just couldnt catch a break could they
@@aaabatteries9948 they just couldn’t catch a brake from the christian europeans!
Not fun, tragic!
Rodriguez is one of the most common surnames in Spain, Rodriguez means son of Rodrigo and Rodrigo comes from Visigothic name Roderic so Rodriguez is a surname of Germanic origin.
Rodriguez is two words Rod Riguez arabic words meaning garden of the dance.
WRONG RODERIC IS NOT GERMANIC ITS FROM RUDRICUS A HISPANIC NAME. STOP TRYING TO BE GERMAN. THATS NOT HEALTHY.
@@arlanpereiralima2801 no tienes ni pura idea
@@arlanpereiralima2801 menuda mania que teneis de cambiar muchas cosas en Moro , como por ejemplo la Paella tambien es mora , menos mal que las mentiras no matan que si no no veas 😅 .
El nombre de Rodriguez es puro ESPANOL =HISPANICO
@@jojolafrite9265 Tienes razón. Bastante tenemos con que unas 4000 palabras del español provengan del árabe, como para que encima algunos se inventen otras.
One important fact that hasn’t been mentioned in your presentation is that the Northern region of Asturias was never conquered by the Muslim. In fact that’s the region where the “re-conquest” of Iberia begun to develop.
There was no reason to, most fertile land was in the south and the landscape splitting Portugal and Spain is very mountainous terrain. I don’t think they were interested in “ conquering “
@@514Exc good luck convincing the Asturians that they didn't fight and bared the Mores from conquering their Land.
Also don't forget that they tried to go up to Francia and got beaten back by Charles Martel, which also managed to (though debatable) stop their momentum
@@514Exc Eso no es así , los musulmanes tomaron las ciudades , pero fue poco tiempo , no pudieron mantenerlas bajo control y se libró batalla allí .
@@thiago292 En la batalla de Covadonga se diezmó demasiado las tropas musulmanas y no tuvieron suficientes efectivos para seguir invadiendo hacia el Norte de Europa y en Francia encontraron una fuerte defensa .
proud to be Christian from Poland☦☦☦☦
Im a Christian in New York
What's that got to do with anything?
Зато это имеет самое прямое отношение к аду)))
You can't be serious ? Tf it has to do with this ?
You are a fake Christian if you practice hate, racism and intolerance to none whites! Truthful Christians love all people
The Arabic influence in Spanish is primarily lexical. Is estimated that around 4,000 Spanish words have some kind of Arabic influence-8% of the Spanish dictionary. Approximately 1,000 of those have Arabic roots, while the other 3,000 are derived words.
Yes, we have a lot of words from old arabic, but vacabulary doesn´t changes the latin sintax, is only lexical enrichment, and many times we have two different words for the same object one from the latin and another from arabic or goth, or even from american natives languages.
Many Mexican Spanish words are Mayan or Aztec; coyote, peyote, avocado, xolo just to name a few.
Architecture, music, hygiene and war tactics as well. It's littered all over Spain to this day.
@@joseantoniocastro1486 heil to the great influence of the Pagan Persians.....
@@daleblue22 paganism is stupid. Primitive people who can’t explain lightening beat sticks together to worship some imagined god of lightening.
Note, the Umayyads, did NOT take the whole of the Iberian peninsula in 711, you seem to have completely overlooked that in the North, in Oviedo, the Christian Visigoths of the region put up a fight and defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Covadonga, preventing them from total control of the peninsula as they were rebuffed by the small newly formed Kingdom of Asturias led by the victor the battle, Pelagius .
... and most of the Basque Region was never conquered by the Muslims!
@@antoniorangel8277 thank you! someone also gets it. Maybe it's just a nitpick but this channel has been very good with historical videos and this was a big oversight.
@@javiersaugar376 Big oversight. He lost all credibility with that.
Puxa Asturias and Long live our king Pelayo or Pelagius
@@asturiasceltic3183 Gloria a Don Pelayo, hermano Ibérico 🤟🏻
Asturias and Cantabria weren't part of Al-Andalus, they were a Christian stronghold during the Muslim occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. The "Cantabrian Refuge" was so well-protected it was the last region in western Europe conquered by the Roman Empire.
Faux La dernière région conquise par les ROMAINS c'etai la LUSITANIA qui a l'époque était entre le Portugal et L'Espagne actuel , ils ont eu tellement de mal a battre les lusitanien que les Romains ont été obligé de embauche des traîtres pour pouvoir assassinée leurs chef lusitanien qui s'appelait VIRIATO , et c'était les derniers a faire face aux ROMAINS. Relisez l'histoire et la VRAI.
It's thought that the refugees, who were mostly aristocrats and their followers, and the need for common defence helped kill off the last remnants of the Celtic language in the region.
Neither Navarre…
Was the reason why Asturias and cantabria weren't part of Andalus due to the fact that they are mountaneous regions which are difficult to invade ?
@@vijayiyer8518 exactly
Why do they always refer to the king and queen of Spain with the Italian translation of their names? It's something I have never been able to figure out. Their real names are Fernando and Isabel (Spanish), not Ferdinando and Isabella (Italian).
Por que los ingleses odiaban a los Españoles de allí la leyenda negra, si por el poder fuera España estaría sepultada.
Se creen vencedores yque lo saben todo y han sido perdedores con España y bastante ignorantes, con malos metodos y muy creidos que son algo especial .
Italian and Spanish language are very identical because of Latin origin. They're the same origin since the Roman Empire and Spanish Empire since both governed Italy and Spain.
Many in English speaking nations can pronounce Spanish words without butchering them, so they prefer using French or Italian ones in ersatz and as a slight to Spaniards. Imagine the French or Spanis using German or Dutch names to ignore the tricky pronunciation of English ones…. Hans Lennon, Jörg Harrischon, Rungen Starrski and Pöl mcCartnung?
@@Player_Spino Well, I've never heard about Wilhelm the conqueror, despite the germanic origins of english language
I am Brazilian, but on my father's side, the family came from southern Spain, from Granada. They were moors many centuries prior. Supposedly, according to family legend, they were corsairs who served the Spanish crown during the age of sail.
Spain did not use corsairs; Spain had the Almogavares who fought in Alger, Balear Islands, south of Italy and Byzantium against Moors and Turks.
Im from andalucia the msulim explused but no have berberechos or arab blood here all are iberian race if you see your tree family
@@antoniorangel8277 How do you know and why wouldn't they? Spain hired mercenaries from foreign countries many times.
Cuba and Mexico is where you would find the most Ibero Muslim descendants, but north of Brazil is where you would find Ibero Jews descent.
@@majuscule8883 yea but they are not muslims they converted to Christianity
Good video, although it's clearly incomplete.
One can not discuss what happened to the muslims of Al-Andalus without talking about the actual Morocco.
Cities like Tetouan and Tangier in the north of Morocco have a huge andalusian influence, which was brought by the expelled muslims.
Fez as well, and even Tlemçen in Algeria also kept several andalusian traditions and some of the notable families still have unchanged spanish family names like Torres, Perez, Toledano (which means "from Toledo")...
It is said that some families still have the keys to their homes in the kingdom of Granada, as a symbol of their andalusian origins.
Es que la PRENSA francesa y Sajona ,no saben como.REBAJARNOS , leyenda negra, y ahora qué??? Venimos de todos los sitios, quién no está "" mezclado "" ??? Y qué conquistador se mezcló con los nativos??? Luego resulta que los matamos a todos!!! Lo que hay de España en el mundo, hablen , pero la verdad!!
Actually, the influence was first the opposite way. Moroccan kings and their soldiers were the first to access Andalusia and were central to the birth of muslim rule of spain. Just look at the architecture etc... It's a copy of what is in Morocco.
@@nc8689 in the era of almoravids whose capital is fez they transported the architecture from fez marackech to al andalous due to the betrayal of arabs they let moroccans fight Spaniards by themselves which resulted in the colonolisation of two morrocan cities ceuta et mellila
Most of the “spanish” muslims were settled in Túnez. They were a minority there until few decades ago. That didn’t happened in “Morocco”, a place in which there were “moriscos” but not so many.
@@CEIVE4EVERMore than 1 million have emigrated to Morocco setteld in tanger, tetouan, fez, rabat, meknes even oudja and the city as chefchaouan was founded by andalusians!
Very informative, thank you! As always the maps and other graphics are well done and a tremendous help. One thing that would help your videos tremendously is less reliance on passive voice. It produces sentences that sound pretentious and indecisive.
Lol How can any serious historian mention this era without mentioning the barbaric inquisition torture compaign used by the "christians" to force Muslims n jews to become trinitarians lol
Islam prohibits torture, trinitarians used it again n again including after invading North Africa centuries later on
Thank you for those who translated the video to Spanish. Very useful!
أستعمل لطرد المسلمين أشكال كثيرة من التعذيب ، 😔
Lies again? Marine Soldier Debit Card
Le recomiendo que se busque otra fuente, esta es muy pobre.
@@zin_alaabidin في الواقع ، كان الأكثر قسوة الموحدين والمرابطين الذين أتوا مما هو الآن المغرب. لقد نهبوا قرطبة بلا رحمة لدرجة أن المدينة لم تسترد سكانها السابقين بعد.
@@r.ladaria135 يا صديقي في زمان الموحدين و المرابطين كانت قرطبة مدينة مسلمة ، لم تكن مسيحية
Overall a really well made and informative summary of the topic. Though very disappointed at the lack of mention of King Pelayo, the Kingdom of Asturias and the Battle of Covadonga which is considered by many to be the start of the Reconquista and the sole reason why, for better or for worse, Hispanic culture/civilisation even exists in the first place today!
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@@islam_thegreat who? Ah,the arabs and islamised berbers...
@@islam_thegreat yes, you are absolutely right, the colonialist moors who came from North Africa.
Slava Hispania! Hispania îs the front of the civilisation towards a lesser and predator civilisation.Slava.
@@islam_thegreat colonialist ??? How did you arabs endend in Nort africa ???? And Spain !?!?😂😂😂🇪🇸👉👌arabs. WE SENT YOU ARABS BACK HOME😂😂😂🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
Although the information in general was accurate, the maps were incorrect for 1035. Also, Spain as a political entity, did not come about until the late 15th century with the union of the Crowns of Aragon and Castile and the conquest of the Emirate of Granada. For centuries, there were five kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula: Portugal, Castile, Navarre, the Crown of Aragon (a confederation of the Kingdom of Aragon, the Catalan counties, Valencia and the Balearic Islands) and the Emirate of Granada.
Shhh people don't care about all that. It's a Christian victory let the crusaders celebrate!
It's true. Although the idea of Hispania-Spain is created by the Romans. And the Visigoths reigned in Hispana-Spain in the 6th century. There was already an idea of Spain at that time. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Spaniards from Aragon, Castilla, Galicia or Navarra called themselves Spaniards. El Cid speaks of the Spains, in the plural. There has always been that idea of a single homeland, but with several kingdoms. It's like Germany, which throughout the Middle Ages had 300 or 400 independent kingdoms, united by a highly divided empire, which was definitively united in 1870. Or Italy, which was united in the 1860s. Although Goethe, Beethoven, Raphael or Leonardo da Vinci know that they are German or Italian from different kingdoms.
@@Truthseiker87 I mean the internal divisions don’t matter as much as the over-all effect of Hispania remaining Christian.
@@Gloriaimperial1 That Hispania and not España was destroyed in 711. What emerged was al-Andalus and the Asturo-Leonese kingdom of the north. The northern Catalan territories and the Portuguese did NOT identify themselves as Spaniards. Roman Hispania included the province of Lusitania, which would be more or less the territory of Portugal. The Portuguese, who declared their independence from the Leon in the first half of the 12th century, did not consider themselves as Spanish or as Spaniards.After becoming independent from the Frankish kingdom, they were known as the Catalan counties that would join with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the loosely Crown of Aragon, which was a loose confederation that was later conquered the Balearic islands and Valencia. The Asturo-Leonese kingdom would subdivide into León and Castilla. The Leonese Crown did have the claim to Hispania and Alfonso VII crowned himself as emperor of Hispania. Your claim that the Navarrese and Catalans viewed themselves as "Spanish" is not based on any documentation. You provide an oversimplified interpretation of a complex identification of the different elites of the five kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula of the middle ages. I would recommend that you read Miguel Ladero Quesada, Julio Valdeón Baruque, Vicente Álvarez Palenzuela and Luis Suárez Fernández among Spanish medieval historians, and then José Mattoso, Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, A.H. de Oliveira Marques and Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa amongst the Portuguese medieval historians
@@Gloriaimperial1 Your notion of Germany that finally unified under Prussian hegemony in 1871, is no comparison to the Holy Roman Empire or the Confederation of the Rhine or the German Confederation. Although the notion and concept of Germany existed for centuries, many people identified themselves with the crowned leaders of the separate kingdoms, duchies and principalities that existed. This "German particularism" is what kept the German states from uniting. It was only in the 19th century that nationalism brought the different German states together. This notion that in the Middles Ages, people had the same concept and interpretation of nationhood did not exist.
Im still proud to be of Spanish descent.
Toi tu est espagnol comme moi je suis japonais
Toi tu est un Moro d'Afrique petit menteur 🤡🤣🤣🤣
Toi origines espagnole avec un nom Arabe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gone Reduced to atoms
The peninsula healed, and things turned to how they should be.
We'll be back. We'll strike at one of your siestas.
@@rodrigovaccari7547 The Muslim were the best thing to happan to the peninsula, what do mean?
@@roukstag The best thing to happen was their removal
@@roukstag yes best thing for all the raped women, because they was KANGZ and shieeet and built a palace in granada.
In the video it shows Spanish jews go to Athens but as a Greek I can tell you the majority of them went to Thessaloniki and transformed the city into a cosmopolitan city with flourishing economy. Their population suffered a huge blow from the holocaust and nowdays only few remain there. However you can still see their marks on the city from it's former glory.
Many of them were saved by the consul of Spain in Tesalonica who gives them the spanish nationality.
Así es como te vuelves musulmán
Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada
(Di esto para convertirte en musulmán)
(Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá)
Decir esto te hará sentir feliz..
During Ottoman Empire in Thessaloniki, Jews thrived and became wealthy!!!
Many also went to Morocco. I have a good friend from Tangier and she said it was a beautiful country until the Arabs ruined it.
Did you know that if you prove that you actually descend from those sephardic jews (Iberian Jews) that were expelled from the peninsula, the actual government of Spain will grant you citizenship for living here in Spain?? no test,no paperwork, no waiting, no nothing, just direct citizenship! Great video as alway! much love from Mallorca!
İs this also valid for moorish descendants?
Qué?
@@thespiritualwanderer2180 no
Yeah, but this doesn’t work for the descendants of the Moors. So much for fixing their historical mistakes. Absolute hypocrisy and hate to Muslims and Arabs.
Why isn't the same privilege extended to descendants of expelled Muslim Moor?
Illustrative documentary. Thank you
Lol How can any serious historian mention this era without mentioning the barbaric inquisition torture compaign used by the "christians" to force Muslims n jews to become trinitarians lol
Islam prohibits torture, trinitarians used it again n again including after invading North Africa centuries later on
Many people don't realize modern day Spanish has fractions of Gothic loanwords in it as a result of the Suevians & Visigoth presense for over 350 years after the fall of Rome.
queso ... is basically the same word as "Käse" in German. The ancient Romans were not big fans of diary products and cheese making, that is something the Gothic tribes brought.
A lot of Spanish names have Gothic/Germanic roots in them too, basically Spanish are Germanic and Muslim interbred together.
@@nobodyspecial115 Thank You / Gracias / Danke ⚽
@@nobodyspecial115 Rather not, Spaniards have of course a lot of cultural heritage of Romans, Visigoths, Arabs and North Africans (among many others in less extent), but in comparison the genetic influence was small. Yes, it is surprising very considering historic facts, but genetics studies tell another story. Actual Spaniards largely derives from the pre-Roman inhabitants, For significant genetic changes In the Iberian peninsula, you have to go back much more that two thousands years.
not just Spain. remember, Spain & Portugal share a common history leading up to the Reconquista. any of the people on the Iberian peninsula you're refencing in regards to Spanish history prior to the Reconquista, can also be applied to the Portuguese.
You seem viciously to ignore Portugal. The iberian peninsula accounts for three countries: Spain, Andorra AND Portugal.
They did a video on Portugal
ask the Catalans or the Basques what they think about that statement. Also, Andorra is a co-principality whose heads of state are not princes. One is in fact a bishop in nearby Catalunya (native Andorrans traditionally speak Catalan as their mother tongue). The other non-prince head of state of this co-principality is the Président de la République française. Also, ask a Spanish right-wing extremist what s/he thinks about Portugal. It might be left out of this video for a reason...
as if Andorra is a real country..
Los catalanes no pintan nada ne la historia…nunca fueron un reino, los vascos si, con Navarra, la verdadera tierra vasca, aunque no haya salido en ese mapa, no fue consultada y España nos me formó Amhara’s su unión cok Navarra en 1512 pero bueno…lleno de errores.
@Faux Sho of course it did, it was right there at the map in the entire video
Indigenous Islam? Islam is not indigenous to Iberia. Islam is only indigenous to the Arab peninsula. You guys literally showed that Islam is not indigenous to Iberia.
Islam is a universal religion.
Islam is indigenous to the entire world as it’s a Message that came for the whole humanity, not just one nation
@@nosmokejazwinski6297 it’s a message that came from Muhammad and was started in the Arabian peninsula. Meaning it’s indigenous to Arabia. Just like Judaism and Christianity are indigenous to the levant.
@@Lingist081 No. It’s a Message that came from God for all of humanity
@@nosmokejazwinski6297 ah I see now we’re going the fairy tale route
This is the best ancient history documentary I've seen in years. So well-researched and engaging!
As a Mexican-American events in Spain that long ago affected me personally of who I am and my heritage today. That is just mind boggling AMAZING !
If they hadn't kicked the muslims out they wouldn't of been able to create their empire n sail to South America, everything couldve been different n the Mexican population would be totally different than it is today, it's why history matters imo.
@@petersmith5915 I totally agree. In fact everyone's personal history is the result of what your and my ancestors did hundreds and even thousands of years ago. Stunning to know that.
@thisapplejudges6553 your heroes were cowards
@thisapplejudges6553 spain was trash before islam
@thisapplejudges6553 al andalus 💪
Actually "Spain" was not born after the conquest of Granada, as Castile and Aragon preserved their laws and institutions, sharing only their common king, for more than 2 centuries.
Spain was born in roma
@Godfrey of Bouillon yeah i know its not the same Spain now days but I presonaly think spain started on roma
"Achthually" 🤓. Dude, Spain was forged in the Reconquista.
many modern countries have administrative regions with their own lawns and institutions for example Spain, USA, UK ...
Then why did they Spaniards consider that Spain had been lost due to the Muslim invaders, "la España perdida".
I was going to say something, but after reading some of the other comments, I realize that there are some very knowledgeable people commenting, and that I am over my head here. Since my dad taught me that it is better to keep one’s mouth shut and have people wonder about one’s state of ignorance on a given subject, than to open one’s mouth and leave no doubt about one’s ignorance. So, everyone have a nice day.
Good policy, brother. Now, I suggest you start reading history. Once you start, you never go back.
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yeah man!..same here!...in over my head on this one!
Silence is golden in a situation like that🤐
This is True history The muslim go to spain with 5300 warior and his not fiighting the People of vandales (spain) because that belive the jésus the not good ( Follow Saint Arius) same muslims muslims fighting the armes catholique Even Tariq Ibn Ziyad, originally from the Vandals who settled in North Africa before the introduction of Islam, there is a tribe in Morocco today that says that their ancestors were Christians from the Vandals, meaning when they became Muslims, they returned and liberated the Andalusian people from the invading Goths of their homeland Even Tariq Ibn Ziyad, originally from the Vandals who settled in North Africa before the introduction of Islam, there is a tribe in Morocco today that says that their ancestors were Christians from the Vandals, meaning when they became Muslims, they returned and liberated the Andalusian people from the invading Goths of their homeland
They were mostly local Roman-Iberians and Goths, they adopted Islam and Christianity several times throw all those centuries, just like they left paganism, they left Christianity, and Islam after that to become Christians again.
Correct. The most accurate and simple explanation is always the one people ignore
True, ruling class and the common people, don't have to share same religion values (or grade of fanaticism) and ethnicity. I think for a lot of people back then changing religion was more a pragmatical decision than a faith one, changing or not religion can make you avoid/add dangers or make better/worst in live.
But when it comes to egypt and others who are so called "ARAB Countries" you say that arabs have replaced the indigenous population? Why the double standards?
@@The_ready_guy Maybe you mistake Arab the language, Arab the culture and Arab the ethnicity. I have Moroccan friends and they really get offended if you call them arabs specially one that is amazig. In the case of Egypt, polititians as Nasser did a great effort to mix the Arab label with Egypt. I dont think is double standard, is more a question of being precise.
@@The_ready_guy They did in those places because they were closer and stayed for longer. Anyway, most of the North Africans are still Berbers for example... It really depends where.
Majority Muslim in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) are local people from Vandals. They're converted to Islam because the Church and the nobles are always oppressed them. You can watch their history in "When Moors rules the Europe" by Bettany Hughes.
The Vandals after Muslim are called Vandalusian or Andalusian, so their land become Al-Vandals or Al-Andalus.
The Vandals were expelled by the Visigoths to North Africa in the 5th century.
No, it was not the vandals, it was the original people that live there and then was romanized
False. The vandals got completely annihilated by the Roman general Belisarius in the 6th century
"When Moors rules the Europe" The title alones is all the warning I need to avoid watching it.
Good video. But I saw one minor error of this. The Kingdom of Asturias (718-1833) was never conquered nor they were park of moorish Iberia.
We have to get the timeline straight to begin … when the Umayyads conquered the Iberian Peninusula, there WAS NO kingdom of Asturia. Like other regions of Iberia, the area was ruled by the Visigoths. And, the Umayyads DID conquer the whole territory. Completely. Only after some years did the rebels regroup in the mountains. THe Umayyads were already in modern France fighting their way upwards. Get your facts straight Mr. Garcia.
@@ThePunisher014 False
@@AlfonsoR. Great evidence you've brought. Even Spanish historians say the same. Look up Daniel Gil-Benumeya
...sem sequer falarmos do facto de a ocupação moura para norte do Mondego ter sido sempre muito fraca, era uma zona de fronteira, uma espécie de terra de ninguém.
The last visigothic kingdom lasted till 720 from King Aldo. Battle of Covadonga happened in 720-722. You could say the local christians refuse to give up their lands in Iberia.
I live in Andalusia and never knew where the name came from, if you travel in the Las Alpujarras there are still churches with the Star of David and the Muslim crescent side by side.
Vándalos.
El nombre proviene de los Vándalos, una tribu germana que fundó un reino en el norte de África, llegando desde el sur de Hispania. Por eso esa zona era conocida como la tierra de los (v)ándalos.
Most people who live in Andalusia don't know anything about Al-Andalus history. They erased that part of your history. Despite it represents more than seven centuries. So unfortunate.
I find that extremely sad. It's like saying "I live in Italy, what does the Roman empire mean?"
@@ThePunisher014 it was much less, a foreign state on our land is not something to hold pride in
I'm surprised that no mention was made of the Almoravids and Almohads.
This happened much after the two dynasties
Otro catalan queriendo tener protagonismo en todos lados 😂
The video is too short to mention the entire history of Spain.
Two major blunders in this video: 1. Missing that the Asturias were never conquered by the Muslims and actually was the root of the "Reconquista"; 2. Missing completely the importance of Portugal, that actually became a Kingdom with all its defined borders much earlier than Spain, had vanquished the Moors by mid 13th century. All Muslims were formally expelled from Portugal in the late 15 Century
Muslims when in spain
They where every
Search about Fraxinetum
In france
South italy
Parts of Switzerland
They left a building with Arabic-Islamic inscriptions in Italy and France, and they left some plants
good catch
Also, Galicia was never _really_ conquered by the Muslims either. Galicia and Asturias, north of Lugo held out.
The Spanish kingdom of León gained the border of Portugal and granted independence to the Kingdom of Portugal.
They would later lose it. Spain is, without counting the city-state of San Marino, the oldest country in Europe. And the Suevi Kindom of Galicia the first feudal Kindom, and The Courts of Leon, the first Parlament of the World.
@@jorgeo4483 _"Spain is, without counting the city-state of San Marino, the oldest country in Europe."_
Define "country"
The Roman Republic was founded in 509 BC.
The Roman Kingdom was founded in 753 BC.
Of course if you mean oldest country in Europe that still exists as a country, well, isn't the oldest country in Europe (after San Marino) Denmark, established between 700 and 800 AD?
_"And the Suevi Kindom of Galicia the first feudal Kindom,"_
Scholars indicate that feudalism in western Europe took root in 8th century France...
_"and The Courts of Leon, the first Parlament of the World."_
The Icelandic Parliament, Althingi, is the oldest parliament in the world. It was established in 930 AD at Thingvellir National Park.
Nice video, nicely narrated and animated. But my point is that the title is wrong, there never was a muslim majority, Spain was occupied by the moors, most muslims lived in the cities, not around the countryside, with the christian majority, essentially the rabble for the muslim ruling class, which still maintained strong links to the wider islamic world, in case they were to lose their position and wealth.
Exactly, the Muslims were never a majority in Spain and Portugal, and neither were the Visigoths. The Iberian Peninsula was -- from even before Roman times -- a mixture of ethnic groups, predominantly the CeltoIberians. Then came groups like the Phoenicians, the Greeks (who were Germanic), the Carthaginians (Originally from the Middle East mixed with Hametic influences), and the the Latins from Italy. By the time the Muslims arrived, several million people with this mixed background were already there. Unlike, for example, the Ottomans who overtook Anatolia altogether, the cultural aspects and language of the Andalusians in Spain were secondary.
Found so much world history when I started family genealogy about four years ago. I have data for three areas that you show: Spain, North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. Recently, I had a blessing of buying a National Geographic magazine of November 1986 from a bookstore: Our Search for the True Columbus Landfall. Your info of January and March 1492 gives me a little more information of what was going on with Isabella and Ferdinand, and why they finally gave into Columbus. Here “we” are with technology to send people to the Moon, and machines to Mars, and yet these persons, such as Columbus, are crossing “the ocean blue in 1492” with their technology. It’s amazing!!!
The Vikings did it before Columbus in open boats.
@@carstenhansen5757 llegaron si llegaron ,mas perdidos que un burro en un garaje
Segun parece Colon llego nadando desde Europa
Muchas respuestas dan risa
@@pedroelgrande4335 Hvis du vil kommunikere, så skriv på et civiliseret sprog.
@@carstenhansen5757 lol Spain built 350 hospitals in the 16 the century made grammars of the native languages before French and German grammars, built ciities that are Unesco world heritage sites, made the 1st world map including America like Juan de la Cosa`s map, discovered and described the nature of the Americas, from Alaska to Iguazu Falls, the plants and animals in dozens of treatises, described and NAMED the Pacific Ocean and many territories of actual USA, founded hundred of cities (from San Agustín de la Florida to San Francisco to Buenos Aires), described in Chronicles the conquest of Empires, etc. etc. etc. What did the Vikings leave?
@@lauramartin-bk9nr Yeah, it's easy when you plunder south America, to finance it. The conquistadors, were no different from the vikings.
The vikings, was not a nation and common identity.
The point still stands. Why are you so butt hurt over it?
Lots of factual errors here. Firstly the Muslims never conquered all of Spain. Asturias for example, was never taken by the Muslims. Secondly, many of the influential Muslims didn't come from North Africa, but they came from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Cordoba was the capital of Al Andaluz and the Caliphate was Persian, not North African. Lastly, more Witches died in England than Jews died in the Spanish inquisition.
Muslims took control of the cities that time from the era of the Roman Roman Empire, Asturias are those who hide in the mountain and start building their city, the Muslims did push hard because they are nothing to conquer in the mountains and hard to protect so they move to France
lmao what ? Andalus was Persian ? only reason Umayyads got rebelled on was because of their non tolerance to non arabs, i assure you that Al Andalus’s court language was not persian, jews and Muslims were expelled after Granada was conquered, many of them went to the Ottoman Empire who welcomed them
Spain and Portugal have strong christian beliefs.
Persian? 😂😂😂
@@renatomatos90 yeah that's why they're so liberal today with their youth especially
Spain is one country that knows how to deal with imperialism-They can dish it out, and they can take it, too.
Asturias (and part of Cantabria) were never under Muslim rule, in fact, there is a popular saying that says: "Asturias is Spain, the rest is conquered land".
Yes, that’s correct!
Yes the Arabs never occupied Asturias
@@fido6402forcefully convert christian 😂
@@spidey7628 this is the stupidest and most of all ignorant answer in the history of Spain and Portugal, it would have been enough to study at least superficially the history to know that the moriscos, those who by their intention converted to Catholic Christianity were expelled since Arabs from North Africa and not Iberian Europeans because of a whole series of problems they caused, which I'm not going to explain here, which is well known to everyone especially historians and which I'll leave you to inquire about, the last ones were those of Valencia and other minor cities, you should study and know the history before you say ignorant nonsense.
@@spidey7628 this is the stupidest and above all ignorant answer in the history of Spain and Portugal, it would have been enough to study at least superficially the history to know that the moriscos, those who by their intention converted to Catholic Christianity were expelled since they were Arabs from North Africa and not Iberian Europeans because of a whole series of problems they caused, which I'm not going to explain here, which is well known to everyone especially historians and which I'll leave you to inquire about, the last ones were those of Valencia and other minor cities, you should study and know the history before you say ignorant nonsense.
It can also be attributed to the cultural differences of the locals to that of a foreign religion, that made it slowly seem irrelevant to adopt long term. Spain is bordered by very strong Christian influences, of which would need continueous islamic influence for it to sustain the majority. Its not a surprise when Islamic empires were in a decline that the outer influences of other religions managed to pierce through and hold.
The biggest fear of the Spanish moors wasn't the Spanish until late in the reconquesta. It was that the abassid or Fatma Muslims or other Muslim groups would cross over from morroco and take them over.
the inquisition was a genocide and that is why Muslims in Spain disappeared not because of “influences”. Andalusia had been ruled by Muslims for centuries and the people were very familiar with Islam!
Iberia was already Christian by the 4th century and even further when the Visigoths converted.
The answer is torture, murder, and secret inquisition courts whose caves are still under the churches today, until it came to the point that bathing was forbidden by the kingdom to know the Muslim from the Christian because the Christians were forbidden from bathing by the Catholic Church.
Iberia has always been Christian and always will be. At the end of the history of Arab Muslim colonization, all is well that ends well, just as it ended, with the invaders having returned home.
Watching this after what happened in France this week.
En Francia tienen que hacer algo parecido 😂
@@yacky489 Oui, un nouveau conquistador a l'Espagnol! On peut le faire! 🇫🇷🇪🇸
Galicia was never under muslim rule. You are welcome.
Lots of inconsistencies in this video. Firstly Al-Andalus never conquered the northernmost regions of the peninsula, Asturias, Aragón and others retained their independence and while we can speak in modern times of the process of "reconquista", this was never even an idea for those small Christian kingdoms vying for survival. Also, Castile was born alongside other kingdoms such as León and even Galicia, and ended up ruling over the others through marriage, force, etc. Spain wasn't a thing until a few centuries later. And why did you leave out Rossellón in France? Why did you use modern borders and cities?
Yes the people of Castile, Aragon, León etc were essentially the same people . They were the people of Hispania .They were not Berbers or Arabs
Yeah this whole video series leaves me unconvinced. It's not academically robust, it seems like there is a political agenda behind it but we don't know which, though I doubt it is one based on love and acceptance of the other. Ironic that now we have the world's knowledge at our fingertips, if we read or see anything on the internet now, we need to go to the physical library to check if it is legit or misinformation or what. Digital era... underwhelming.
History is mostly incositant because what we have is the propaganda from the winners lol.
Putting Madrid in the map was very inaccurate.
Yeah, not the first time when this content creator doing inaccuracies. Now i'm clicking don't recommend on youtube main page, to avoid getting dissinformation.
Man, my criticism to this is that you failed to even mention Asturias, where the reconquest started.
Asturians made history. 🇪🇸💪
Fairly brief but accurate video. The Spanish language is incredibly similar to Italian, Portuguese and even French, and has very little to do with Arabic (in fact, it has inherited some dozens of words from Arabic but from a linguistic point of view is a totally different language). This can give us an idea to which extent both cultures were mixed, even though it cannot be denied the relevant impact of the Arabs within Architecture, Cuisine, Agriculture, Chemistry, and some other aspects in the Iberian Peninsula. The main roots of modern Spain come undoubtedly mainly from Rome though.
It's quietly similar to several old prehistoric languages. Gaelic words of very little known prehistoric times, due to the little known Gaelic secrets the languages similarities don't surprise me. Gaelic life was wider than modern people realize.
There were some theological basis for the internecine strife among the Visigoths, as well as for the alliance between the Muslims and a faction of the Visigoths. These basis were the opposition between, on the one had, the non-trinitarian arian Christianity and the unity or tawhid of Muslims, and, on the other hand, the Catholic trinity of the Visigoths recently converted to Catholicism.
Actually was merely a matter of political Power as stated here. No real issue on differences of spirituality or teoretichal sides. Again the islamic armies brought Power and Money and that unfortunately let to a Quick change over. Mostly of the "elite" ex.visigoth remain in reality Cristian as a way they declared themaelves, even of they were loyal to the occupant ruler.
And widegenerally, the spanish populatoon remained christian. Only the poorer as cant provide the "tax" to stay christian became muslim ti.avoid their death and of their.family. but the vast majority of iberians remaina Christian
@@samiabdullahal-jaber5939 Never in ancient times power was detached from religious matters.
Many of the leading Muslim families -like the Banu Qasi- were Visigoths originally. The Muslims brought over a cultural revolution, more than anything. It's important to observe that, nevertheless, the most developed and rich regions in the Islamic world were not Arab themselves, such as Persia or Andalusia.
It is actually more nuanced than that because the main body was comprised of Geta(non germanic population, of palasgic origin that spoke a language that was similar to latin but older) not Goths. As proof, the name of the hero king is Pelagius.
Fast forward a few centuries: I’m from Guatemala, my last name Alfaro is from a city from the same name in the county of La roja Spain, originally from the Arabic Al-farras which meant torch bearer… then adapted to Spanish Faro which means “lighthouse” or “beacon”… the AL remained to the point that “AL” means “to” and “faro” means “lighthouse” so together “Alfaro” means “to the lighthouse” (in a literal translation)….. similarly last names in Spanish also have either an occupation or trait that resonates with them (Herrera =“ herrero”= blacksmith) and so on….. historically Alfaro was of noble lineage but I’m pretty sure we’re bottom of the barrel to claim the Spanish throne (although we can battle royal it to settle it)
Great research of your name👏
al in arabic means "the", so its actually "the lighthouse" :)
That is very interesting. It helps connect the present with the past. It is also fun to learn something about language roots. Spanish is not just strictly a Latin language.
yes... its a stretch since that area is down south
There is a small town in Portugal called Alfarras.
To understand better, you have to see that the Muslims were not always United in Iberian peninsula, almoads, omiads, almoravids and kingdom Nazari and between these periods were the Taifa periods, meaning there were fragmentation of the Muslim rulers and during these periods there were internal struggles and fights and fierce battles! The periods of internal chaos during Muslim rulers were the perfect periods for the Catholic rulers take back territory, sometimes even with alliances with Muslims! These is interesting, because it shows why the Catholic rulers were in the beginning tolerate towards the Muslims!
One example of intolerance was the first conquest of Silves, in Algarve, when the Portuguese troops among with crusaders conquered the city and killed everyone inside... There were lots of crimes made during these period of Reconquista, because the killing of the population and destruction of heritage just pushed back the develop of lots cities, that were very rich economically
This is spot on. I was in silves last summer. Amazing how the Arab castles is intact. Beautiful piece of history.
Así es como te vuelves musulmán
Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada
(Di esto para convertirte en musulmán)
(Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá)
Decir esto te hará sentir feliz..
@@Shanksz jesus es hijo de Allah !!!
The Muslims also took advantage of the visigoths being at war with each other, when they first arrived in the Peninsula.
The Moors were even more intolerable! It's for a reason that nowadays there are barely any Germanic ruins or city or parishes that have Germanic names Iberia. The moors destroyed and renamed everything. There were small population that still spoke Germanic languages, but they were destroyed by the moors
Los musulmanes destruian todo .
Destruyeron el circo romano de mi ciudad Toledo .
Por cierto Toledo capital del reino visigodo de España.
Catholic population became muslim with the new rulers, than Muslim population became Catholic with their new rulers
No way. Catholic population NEVER became Muslim's. They only looked like they did but they never converted as they took over Spain again. Spanish Catholics were smart!
I am a descendant of these Andalusians. My last name is a hispinized version of an arabic name. Interestingly enough my family name is also the name a prominent persian polymath during the islamic golden age. I am from the Philippines.
Glad to know you are a Pinoy.
Descendant from the philippines nice 💀
@@ziyad5368 quite a number of us have spanish blood. My great grandfather was from Spain. Remember we were a Spanish colony for 300 years, also got chinese blood within me. The Philippines is a melting pot of sorts, filipinos that look malay, some look chinese others closely resemble europeans.
@@mankarseptim4528 Filipinos with actual Spanish ancestors are a small minority. As you surely know most Filipinos with a Spanish surname do not have any Spanish blood. Spanish surnames were imposed by the colonizers, people chose a surname from a list given to them.
@@aquelpibe yeah it’s quite easy to tell, native filipinos have a certain look to them. But I can assure you that I myself actually have spanish and andalusian blood, as mentioned my great grandfather who did in fact have my current last name was european spanish. My name is of arabic origins and as you can imagine I wouldn’t want to share it to a stranger online for the sake of my privacy. But often I’ve been questioned of my origins, taller than most people here, got fairer skin and natural brown hair. But honestly my middle-eastern dna is quite diluted only reason I know of it was again my last name of arabic origins. I know we filipinos have a reputation for being quite “slow”, in online spaces especially when it comes to history, I wouldn’t really object honestly afterall look at the man we voted for. But I’ve got a good grasp of history.
There were also Christians and Jews in Arabia before Islam. Look how that worked out for them. Times were tough and harsh back then. To make the Spanish Christians look like they were these singularly bad and intolerant actors just smacks of the typical anti-Christian and anti- Western rhetoric that is so in vogue these days. I’d also say that life as a dhimmi in Muslim Spain was no great shakes either.
اليهود تم طردهم من الحجاز لانهم تحالفو مع المشركين ضد المسلمين و خانو العهود و المواثيق المبرمة مع المسلمين و ليس لانهم يهود...اقرأ التاريخ قبل ان تتحدث
@@Secrets962stfu your ideology is a cancer, which requires deceit from u goat lovers.
Really informative, thank you
It may well be that this is a case of borders changing over time, but I visited a city near the southern coast of Portugal many years ago (might have been Sintra?) & we went to a castle there - and it had been built by Muslims who were in control at the time - it had a very impressive water cistern, very interesting. So it must have been that the Muslim invasion did also happen to Portugal or that area was within Spanish territory at the time.
Portugal didn't exist as an independent country at the time of muslim invasion. It was created during the reconquista.
There was never a Muslim majority in Spain. The Islamists were always less than 10% of the population, but they had a powerful army, with mercenaries from Africa and Eastern Europe, in medieval times. Then the Islamists of Spain allied themselves with the pirates of Algeria and the Turkish empire, to invade Spain, and Spain expelled those who did not become Catholics. Imagine that kind of rebellion now in Paris or New York.
Bro there was
اذا كان المسلمون يمتلكون القوة والسلاح لمذا لم يقتلوا ويبيدوا المواطنين الاصليين المسيحيين؟
فلمذا لم يمارس المسلمون التطهير العرقي كما فعل المسيحيين للمسلمين؟
الاندلس كانت تابعة للمسلمين اكثر من 800 سنة ومع ذلك لم نخرب ثقافتكم وهويتكم
لمذا لا تتكلمون العربية ؟
@@bounyabk946 والله كلامك محق
@@bounyabk946 They didn't kill them all so they could extract taxation, do you not know how Empires work?
Plenty of historical records of Muslims cleansing Christians and jews
You didn't destroy nothing? so where is the Visigoth history? where are the Giant buddhas? pathetic apologist...
never read such a bs "Islamist" "Pirates"
Less emotional and more education would help
During the nineteen fifties across North Africa and the Middle East in general the population was twenty percent non Muslim. Today that is one percent, no-one asking where those people went.
Well the word 'Islam" actually means 'Submission" not "peace" as they claim, so if you didn't want to Submit, it was best to just leave !!! That faith tends to 'breed' a bunch of humans who do not argue or rebel against the system ! Much easier to control people who are scared of being stoned or beheaded for some small error or disagreement !
They went back to their countries, because you know, they were colonizers? By the way can you bring sources for your numbers?
To Europe and Israel. The French took some of them with them when they left North Africa. For economic reasons many left for Israel. Jews and Christian’s had many religious freedoms in Northern Africa and there was never any hate towards them since North Africa itself used to be Christian.
There was never and kind of ethnic cleansing in North Africa that was even close to that what the Germanic people that conquerod modern day Spain did.
@srg25008 I would say that seeing what happened in Europe when you dragged your feet and hoped-for the best .Quite a few took the option of going before they were pushed. Nevertheless, direct persecution did and does take place especially in Iran Iraq, Syria ,Yemen , with the Christian people of Lebanon find their homes and land being used by Hezbolla to fire rockets into northern Israel. Then we come back to the Koran being the one and only religious text that advocates death to non Muslims.
@@srg25008 This is a lie. They kicked the Jews out after the foundation of Israel.
There was never any indigenous Muslims in Europe.
لكن العروبة متجدرة في دول البحر الابيض المتوسط منذ عهد الفينيق حتى تسمية اوروبا تعود لامرأة من سوريا
@@بنيهلالالسادةPhoenician not Syrian. “Arabism” would be more accurately called semitism. As Arabia had almost no impact on Mediterranean culture when compared with the Phoenician/Cathaginian, Hittites, Egyptians, Greeks/Myceneans, Persians, Assyrians , pre-623.
You forgot bani qasi and muwallad they are indigenous musulman in Iberia
This form of conversion has happened, worldwide, forever!
never again, for ever!
now we need El Cid video, tho I don't think u do individual historical figures.
The moors never had complete control over the entire Spanish peninsula; at its peak, the moors ruled probably a little over 75% of the land for a stint of time.
The Moors never dominated anything because the ruling classes were always an Arab minority, which is why the Berber revolt of 740 occurred against their Arab masters who gave them the disputed border lands while they kept the richest cities in southern Spain.
ther is many yemenien tribe migrated to the andalusian peninsula . they lived in many citys. like the city of siles in portugal.@@MrWifly
@@Abderraoufnefnaf The Umayyads controlled a huge territory, it is normal that people from all over their empire entered the peninsula but I do not believe that a region as far away as Yemen had a large presence here, the majority of Muslims who arrived after 711 are North Africans led by an Arab minority .
Well for ONE thing, the muslims were never a "majority" in Spain. They were never more than a small minority who happened to conquer most of Spain in the 8th Century. And the Christian kingdoms spent some 700 years taking it back (Reconquista). So the title is misleading. There WERE no muslims prior to the Muslim invasion in the early 700s. They invaded and defeated the ruling Visigoths.
the muslims never conquered the entirety of the iberian peninsula, asturias kept their independence and that was the starting point for the reconquista
Nah
@@turplexx233 nah what?
fake claro que los muslims invadieron asturias
@@MaxMax-me5gv You're joking, right? DNA and history says NO
@@asturiasceltic3183 pues los estudios geneticos demuestran que la herencia genetica magrebi esta mas presente en galicia que en andalucia y la historia que no miente es que los musulmanes invadieron asturias
He didn't mentioned one of the biggest reasons why al andalus failed the taifas who were fighting each other instead of fighting their enemies because of them the Muslims lost the majority of the big cities and he called the Muslims invaders like the visigdos were the natives of Iberia
To be fair, the Visigoths were much easier to melt with the natives than the Muslims. They were romanized l, kept up Roman traditions, and even abandoned their language and religion later on.
It's simple. The native Iberians saw Celts as invaders.
The Celt-Iberians saw the Romans as invaders.
The Hispano-Romans saw the Visigoths as invaders
The Visigothic Hispanians saw the Moors as invaders.
The Moors were however expelled and so we are left with the final POV: Visigoth native vs Moorish invader.
Had it been 3 centuries earlier and the Visigoths were kicked out, we'd remember today of the brave men that pushed out the Visigothic invaders.
Iberia is a land of invaders, "indigenous" is an hard term to use because we are descendant of all the invasions and settlments of the peninsula.
If you want hard and literal indegenous peoples of modern Spain, I'd say the Basque people, who even predate the Iberian peoples, are the ones.
@@miguelpadeiro762 The Iberians didn’t see the celts as invaders, it was more like a migration than invasion, even if they encompassed the entire peninsula. They actually intermingled and created a mixed culture called Celt-Iberian in the middle.
At first, the hispano-Romans saw the Visigoths as liberators from the tribes that settled there and the declining Roman Empire that had a shit economy. They actually sided with the Visigoths because they paid way less taxes under them, in fact they barely did. It was their religion that was a problem, which they saw as heretical.
It took some time for the Visigoths to melt into the native population but they eventually dropped their gothic language, religion, and made some progressive laws that United them together, which actually helped with the reconquista in a way since they were intertwined.
The moors were kicked out because the Spanish saw their culture and them as alien. The Visigoths were already romanized and actually maintained Roman institutions, it makes sense because the Visigoths had endless Roman contact from the East to West since the time of Constantine. Maybe a little before that.
Majority of modern Iberians make up the celtic and Iberian tribes that settled in the peninsula based on dna tests. The rest are from the Visigoths/Suebi, North Africans, etc.
@@CarvedStones dead wrong. People don't change language through peaceful means. The celts couldn't have made people speak their language through peaceful means
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl Some can, like the aforementioned Visigoths who switched from gothic to Latin, and so did the celts somewhat. Celtic (the Iberian celtic languages) and Latin sound so similar either way, it’s probably why they dropped it all together. Keep in mind that celts have blended in with the Iberians at that point too.
There are thousands of people with Spanish last name in North África and Turkey
Empezamos mal con el título. ¿Cómo que la mayoría musulmana de España? Eso no es cierto, nunca hubo una mayoría musulmana en España otra cosa es que conquistaran la mayor parte de la península, pero España no dejó de ser cristiana e incluso había judíos.
Tienes razón tambien a mi me ha sonado raro eso.
Segundo error. La ciudad de Bilbao, fue fundada en el año 1300, no existía en el Reino Visigodo de Hispania.
It’s simple, Spanish or Vanish!
Until we meet again 🕌
@@Thelastofusfan297 meet again mis coj0nes
@@Thelastofusfan297 inshallah
@@Thelastofusfan297 Esa Kaaba podría ser transformada en un magnifico confesionario católico🤩
Edit: El mahometano cobarde edito y saco el emote de la Kaaba que había utilizado en su comentario, evidenciando su diminutez.
Say that to the Portuguese LOL yes they tried
They were completely wiped out or deported. Today Spain is 90% catholic and European country. Thank god.
The number of Muslims has returned😂
Stop saying that spanish were christian they weren't christian before, they were pagans and other beliefes, there was the romans who converted them into Christianity
They were christian when Muslims conquered Spain
well stop saying Arabs and Moors were muslims they werent't befoe 7th century
The Visigothic Kingdom was Catholic since 587
They were Christians when the Muslims came
Forced conversion is mean less. Changing your faith is a matter of the heart and spirit
Well, it still works long term
That's how Abhrahamic faiths have been spread through forced conversions & mass murder.
Great video and very informative.
Thanks for the interesting insight.
😃
Thank you for this interesting historical breakdown.
🇪🇸🤜💥🤛🇵🇹
It seems that a large portion of your comments section should create a history channel themselves.
Bark & no bite is my theory on that.
Así es como te vuelves musulmán
Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada
(Di esto para convertirte en musulmán)
(Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá)
Decir esto te hará sentir feliz..
Ah...The sSpanish name of Elisabeth is Isabel . Isabella is not , and it never was, a spanish name. We're not Italian ...guys.
A lot of videos with german names for english people are needed
The lesson to be learned from this war is basically treat people like you want to be treated.
Muslim majority countries says that is blasphemy.
It was great, thanks for your effort, blessed be you 👍🌷
Would be nice if any information about Portugal were included, did it happened at the same time? What causes?
Portugal was part of Al Andalus and the Visigoths. The two countries of Portugal and Spain were one in the past.
@@Handle0108 actually it wasn't like that, most of Portugal was under the rule of "suevos", and Bilbao was under "vascoes", while the rest of iberia was under the rule of Visigoths. Nonetheless Portugal was under Spain during 1580-1640 a completely different period.
They didn't drink wine... they didn't eat pork... they had to go.
@@filipedavid6806 Portugal was not under Spain in 1580, the moment it was Portugal took independence.
@@antper8174 what do you mean? Portugal was part of Al andalous and the rest of Spanish Iberia before they split apart and created the modern borders.
Europe needs a reconquista.
europe needs islam, those europeans & south americans wearing arab gear at the world cup is eating you up on the inside
I also suggest an episode on what happened to the Christian majority of the Byzantine Empire
That will never happen, because there will be an unhappy country whose government is known to find ways to put pressure on "independent media".
حصلت لهم محاكم تفتيش و تم قتلهم و طردهم من الارض ؟!!😂😂😂 فعلا حالتكم مثيرة للسخرية ...تحاولون تبرير الفضائع و الوحشية بالبحث و التدقيق في تاريخ المسلمين....عندما سيطر المسلمون على الاندلس كل الديانات تعايشت بسلام ...و لو طبق المسلمون نفس سياستكم لانقرضت المسيحية من قرون
Thank you for this breakdown. Really interesting. Eager to know more 👍🏾
Así es como te vuelves musulmán
Para convertirse al Islam hay que declarar la shahada
(Di esto para convertirte en musulmán)
(Testifico que no hay más dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el Mensajero de Alá)
Decir esto te hará sentir feliz.
@@Shankszgross 😂😂
Arab Soldier in 8th Century: Where are those darn Christians, we want to go fight them!
Peasant: How should I know, I'm Muslim and my family has been for centuries!
Castilian Soldier in 13th century: Where are those darn Muslims, we want to go fight them!
Peasant: How should I know, I'm Christian and my family has been for centuries!
Funny that how or why residents of formerly Visigothic Hispania converted to Islam is swept aside completely. Even though we know EXACTLY how Islam wins its converts, both historically and contemporarily. Nobody will touch that topic. Use of the phrase “indigenous Islam” later in the video says it all.
Agree it’s a gutless video from a channel that will NEVER make a video on, lets say, what happened to Algerias Jews. Or Turkeys Christians.
Less taxes for muslim people
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How does Islam gain its converts please enlighten me 🙄🙄 you’ve clearly don’t understand the truth
Agreed. This video glosses over 700 years of conquest and occupation very quickly, even calling the time between the Muslim Conquest and the Reconquistia "soon." After that long a period of foreign rule -- and, yes, it was foreign, based in the Arabian peninsula -- a people just having achieved a hard-won autonomy will take no chances. The first to go will always be the true power-brokers of the invaders -- in this case, the Jewish population of the Caliphate.
Re: the Ottomans -- after incessant invasions into Europe finally resulted in the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Spanish rulers in 1492 would take no chances with "tolerance." It's no coincidence that the discovery of the New World and the Reconquista happened in the same year -- the Turks cut off access to the Black Sea and the Silk Road; a new route to the Far East had to be discovered.
Invasion from Asia and Africa into Europe had been incessant, as was the capture and enslavement of European peoples by Ottomans, Arabs, Jews, Turks, and North Africans. Finally defending themselves led to these societies to look elsewhere, to Africa, for their odious slave trade.
Some Muslims who converted moved to the Americas and the Philippines, where their descendents remain. Still, most Muslims fled to North Africa, where they arabized the entire region.
..and look what a "paradise" followed them in each one of those places; shitholes, to a last. Deus Vult!
@Mike J because they had been previously arabized themselves
Sad but true.
@@kuroazrem5376 They only linguistically Arabized the region. North-Morocco and North-west-Algeria has always been berber/amazigh. Never have Arabs or arabized people settled there. It is only until the Andalusians settled there due to their expulsion from Iberia that people started speaking more Arabic there.
That's why people surrounding the Andalusian cities in those regions are always Berber people. even though it's the same or almost the same region.
A very low percentage. It's likely there. were more Jewish converted than Arabs converted.
As a Spaniard and a proud Andalusian,I will tell you we got rid of them. Don't try to bring your false prophets to España. Jesus is King,No mortal or other false god will ever be higher.
Vous savez que Al Andalous fût détruit en 1236 .
Alors vous n'êtes pas un andalous mais un espagnol ViVA 🇪🇦 UNIDA ✝️🇪🇸
@FidelCashflow13 you have Arab blood mate whether you like it or not
@@FidelCashflow13 can someone who defended Jesus, when he was called a b@stard, and defended his mother, when she was accused of all sorts of henious immoral acts, be a false prophet?
@@AS-wn7ql they were all expelled back to their stone age native lands of middle east.
@Napolean46 foolish comment. The Christian West owes its success to Muslim Spain. Go read a book.
Good video :)
Get a hold of Prof. O’Callaghan’s “History of Medieval Spain,” the definitive work in English on the Reconquista. I studied under him at university.
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Records from as late as the eleventh century show Christian towns that Muslim authorities in the taifa kingdom of Granada considered potentially subversive. The Almoravids deported many Christians en masse to North Africa to punish them or prevent their collaboration with Christian warriors of the Reconquest. As for the Almohads, they concluded that only forced conversion could take care of the multicultural problem that these suspect Christian communities posed. Some Christian churches survived in Huesca until Christian forces retook the city in 1096. Until the eleventh century a few churches and monasteries remained in the rural villages of Islamic Spain. All these details indicate a Christian culture that indeed was declining under Islamic hegemony but that nonetheless refused to die.83
Next video. What happened to christian majority Egypt after Arab Muslims arrived.
They accepted the truth
@@Thelastofusfan297 lgbtq wasn’t a thing back then.
@@bigdaddyeddy1252 it was even before than, Sodom and Gomorrah.
@@Thelastofusfan297 you are deceived if you think Islam is the truth. Watch videos by David wood and Sam shamoon
shame on spain for torturing the muslims then they visited the new world to kill 100M native americans and bringing other europeans with them
FYI, the foundation date of Portugal is 1143. That of Spain, 1492. Portugal is roughly 350 years old than Spain. That's a lot, IMHO.
Spain is much earlier than that. From the Roman province of Hispania and later visigoth Kingdom of Hispania. Portugal was a spanish County, like Castilla at the beginning. And England has done its best to keep Portugal apart from the rest of Hispania.
interesting
@@alazraq6475 and portugal by lusitania
@@yrenetino6229 Lusitania was a piece of Hispania, like Baetica or Tarraconense.
In fact Lusitania included what today is South Portugal, part of Extremadura, etc.
The visigoth kings called themselves Hispaniarum Rex for all the peninsula, south France and northern part of current Morocco.
@@alazraq6475 Portugal is the only kingdom on the Iberian peninsula to have never been conquered by Castille. and the reason is simple, Portugal had a very powerful kingdom that viscously fought for their independence. and at the time Columbus first set sail, the Portuguese actually had the most advanced naval force on the planet. during the 15th century, whenever the Castilians made the mistake of challenging the Portuguese in the oceans, it ended quite badly for them
Funny how Portugal, despite being part of the Iberian peninsula, was completely ignored in this video lol, there is no doubt it is a region of Spain hahahahaha
Portuguese will be triggered if they read this
@@ColonelFluffles The Portuguese have been Spaniards many times, it depends on who is King or Queen
Pure ignorance!
Portugal as a nation is far older then Spain though
@@knightheaven8992 true. And the one time the Portuguese crown fell on the head of Spanish monarchs, it was under a personal union. Hence the Portuguese never got to be Spanish.
this is something my family discuss often being Portuguese. 6'5" green eyes to 4'11" curly hair & all skin colors light to dark. always interesting!
That's because you have Moroccan ancestors. South Europeans and North Africans share DNA.
@@morocco8990 and now nortyh african muslims have French paternal DNA all ur women just had so much baugette in the last 100 years you have European DNA now
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Not at all, the only Moroccans with partially European DNA are the people of Northern Morocco, because most of them are Moriscos (Muslims of Iberian Peninsula) who were displaced by Catholics when they invaded Andalusia.
@@morocco8990 that sounds like copium, FRANCE annexed morocco .algeria, tunisia for centuries and your telling me they didnt get down funky with your women? naaah i know for sure algerians are 80% French paternal DNA ..and Morisco are muslim andalusians who converted to Catholicism. you coping hard right now
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You're a little ignorant kid. I'm not going to to waste my time with you.
_("Spain's king")_ James I of Aragon said: *_“For God and for saving Spain, we will free this land from the Moors”_* The last time Muslims colonized Spain, it took 8 centuries of hard struggle to reverse the process.
This will also happen in West Africa and Morocco. We will repel the Mohammedan forces out of West Africa and Morocco. Only Catholicism will remain in West Africa and Morocco.
it wasn't colonization it called conquest
But we did it.
This is a great lesson in how internal issues and disagreements lead to completely overlooking the real enemy.
Viva Reconquista ✝️❤️
You know,love your enemy...pathetic.
hannibal is back to smash your eggs .@@bobbyokeefe4285
When you realize that the Visigoth Kingdom was basically the closest that Iberia was to being united
there was a short time where portugal was occoupied by spain and also under the visigoths the peninsula was in fact united
@@naughtiusmaximus3690 Portugal was never occupied by Spain
Nah, Hispania was first. And Visigoth kingdom shared the peninsule with Suevi one mostly of their time.
@@slayer.trades oh right, and also the byzantine province of hispania
@@tcbbctagain572 It was. Ever heard of the Portuguese restoration war?
Muslims were never a majority in Spain, so the minority were given the opportunity to convert or leave the country peacefully. It's more than enough for that time
I think they were, for a short time (even in the muslim ruled zone christians were majoriti until 11th century and by early-mid 13th century most of Spain was already in christian hands again).
Next video: what happened to the north african pagans, jews and christians after the islamic conquest during the 8th century?
Now that would be interesting.
They accepted the truth
@@Thelastofusfan297 lgbtq wasn’t a thing back then.
@@Thelastofusfan297 even as a staunch catholic, can't deny your words. It's ahistorical and incoherent to apply modern principles to the past as we do with european empires, trying to judge them under the current mindset.
As long as the video after that is on what happened to pagans in North Africa, rest of the Roman Empire, Germania, land of the Slavs, land of the Romuva, and the entire Mesoamerica (it's an incomplete list btw).
Bonus points for mentioning the hundreds of pagan temples either destroyed or "repurosed" as churches.
They adopted Islam quickly
It may seems harsh but what they Spanish royals did was fairly tolerant within in tolerance.
He gave them an option of convert or a lengthy period of three years to prepare to leave.
From the point of view of the Spanish, they had been conquered, subjugated and made second class citizens in their own nation for centuries.
Seen in the context or harsh times of the past, it doesn't seem too extreme what they did. Especially when you take into account their concern for a possible resurgence of Islamic forces.
If you compare islamic invades to christian / mongok invades they are pretty peacefull😂
@@debsaye3360 Well, to also be fair to Islamic conquerors of the middle ages, many of those regimes were pretty fair. Not fully fair but reasonably fair and they allowed Christian people's to live among them. Though they put so much pressure on them to convert that over time most did.
The Mongols were probably the worst in history though. Pretty much just genocidal as default.
@@NR-rv8rz mongols and christians aswell. Christians were actually very bloodthirsty and had most of the time no mercy
@@debsaye3360 'Most of the time' is a general statement that you can't back up with historical records.
We are discussing history here not just venting prejudice.
So the muslims of the Philippines have the right to kick out christians for the same reason you just mentioned
Glorious! That section of Spanish history could totally become a videogame scenario.
It is already. You can play the Reconquista Campaign in Total War:Attila in the first DLC oder in Crusader Kings3 and the Fate of Iberia Expansion.
@@swashbukk he means during Islamic Spain inside that glorious civilisation not that animalistic civilisation that the french and German Christian barbarians came with
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