The arab conquest of Sicily (827 - 902)
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- This short history documentary is about how Saracens seized control of the entire island of Sicily from the Byzantine Empire in a prolonged series of conflicts from 827 to 902. The conquest has began in 827, when the commander of the island's fleet, Euphemius, rose in revolt against the Byzantine Emperor Michael II. Euphemius sought the aid of the Aghlabid emirs of Ifriqiya, which in 831 took Palermo, which became the capital of the new Muslim province. The strong fortress of Enna fell in 859, and the city of Syracuse in 878. The fall of the last major Byzantine fortress, Taormina, in 902, is held to mark the completion of the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
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Thank you so much, from a Sicilian born in America. This was a great documentary.
The Muslim Arabs ruled Sicily from 827 to 1072, and they built a civilization there, and their monuments, inscriptions, and mosques are still found there. Their dialect contains Arabic words. It is natural to find similarities between them and the Arabs because they mixed with Arabs and Arabs mixed with them. Some of them may be Arabs and he does not know
Sicilian Culture and people outdate the Arabs by Centuries....( some of there looks, genetics come from North Africa but its very minimal .
@nameless man i get that all the time… dads Sicilian & I get told all the time I look really Arabic… so I make good friends with the Arabs always throughout my life
@@manitheman0806العرب امه اقدم من صقليه و روما بل هي ساس الحضارات القديمه😒
@@x-raygd174When Romans and Greek had civilizations the arabs were simple tribes in arabia until the creation of islam and their conquests.
@@uan9166 العرب حضاراتها قبل الإسلام و قبل الرومان و الإغريق العرب امه ضاربه تاريخها منذو القدم قبل ما يخلق الرومان و الإغريق و الفرس 😒
Thanks a lot for making this video ❤
This helps me a bunch-helps me pinpoint where my characters history is!
I just say I’m “half Calabrese/half Sicilian” but realistically I’m a mix of so many different cultures
In that case you are Mediterranean
Peace and Love to our sicilian brothers happy that we have some commun things in history
my mother is german and my father who i never met is sicilian, I look relatively German, but I noticed that the mentality was not 100% the same as the German one, only when i was allowed to get to know islam 11 years ago and convent (Al hamdulillah) my search for my identity was complete, because it was Islam that my heart had been constantly calling and searching for! may Allah azzawajjal never let us die other than as muslims. Allhumma Amin
Aameen
SubhanAllah! Sicilian is an amazing heritage.
Just like how last emir of sicily, Ibn hammud of enna found his identity when he converted to Christianity willingly submitting to normans
Bei mir genauso das selbe 😁 aselam ualeykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh aus Süd-Amerika
@@bruhmcchaddeus413 his faith was unknown
Love your videos!
Explains the Italian phenotype, which can be so heavily Middle Eastern in appearance.
Yes indeed as well as Spanish and Portuguese
@@whitepouch0904Greeks too
italian is more closer to balkan people like albania, greek, macedonia and serbian... they look very same with big nose
This phenotype is much older than the muslim conquests, primitive humans migrated from north africa to all these regions. Muslims typically did not mixed with other religions, only muslim men with christian women and their descendants were considered arab and muslims.
By your logic They should be more of norse frankish since normans ruled over for longer than arabs lol
Very interesting and good video, thanks for sharing. A dialect of Maghrebi Arabic called Siculo-Arabic developed in Muslim Sicily between the 9th and 13th centuries. This was eventually replaced by the Romance dialect which would become Sicilian today. However, on the island of Malta, which was then part of Sicily and was conquered by the Arabs in 871 AD, this Arabic dialect survived beyond the 13th century and developed into Maltese, which has now become the only Semitic language in Europe and is also the national and official language of Malta.😊🇲🇹🙏
So that's why so many Sicilians have dark hair and tan skin.
That’s why they are beautiful
It's not true... I'm Sicilian and I look like a Nordic: blond, tall, handsome and with blue eyes!
LOL
@@ianmarchese402 only 1% look blond and blue eyes.. others look like pakistani caucasian 😂😂😂
@zackbro4886 i was being ironic, i was joking... of course i don't look Nordic haha
We are a nice mix in Sicily, and for example there are also people with so-called "Afro" hair, really very curly
@@s.smalls7449 that's why they are ugly
What a great era
Where are you from?
My mother's family is from Cefalu and on my ancestry DNA I have Arab DNA still.....its amazing. It has peaked my interest in Sicily's history.
Your videos are so informative but you are not getting support but dont give up & try your best
Alhamdulilah Allahu Akbar 😊
As a Tunisian American with Sicilian family, I understand about 80%
Imagine if they had won the Battle of Ostia…
Thanks this explains presence of Arabeshs on Sicily, and the year 1043. when Giorgos Maniacos took them as payed soliders, and passed them to Balcan, complete picture now, this explains their Algerian Names and last names, and etno dances from african North, you have just proved this whole nation has nothing to do with Illyrians! All is written, for those who read.
How do you mean algerian names and last names
@@achimachi5519 How, well I live on Balcan, here predominate South Slavs, but there is one people with stangely arabic names, and specific faces that I found only on african North, between white non arabic Algerians,and some of their faces come from Caucasian region, their language, folk dances customs are completely strange and non balcanic, and european, when I searched for Amazigh, or Barber dances, faces, I have seen that those stange neighbours who failed to asimilate for almost 1000 years, are from distant lands, and this video shows how people with names like Sami Naseri end up on Balcan and in France, same faces same type of names, explanation arabic concquests, today migration, not all arabic names are same, they differ from region, this particular ones are from african north. By that I mean that people are lied about their origin for more than 100 years, like they are Ilyrians, domestic Balcan tribe, they are lied on Sicily, and on Balcan, they learn this in schools, but when you scratch fabricated part, surprise! Someone lies to Albanians and Arbereshes all the way.
@@marybee1594 islamo apologist detected
@@oscardom__ How islamo apologist? Sorry I don't understand.
The Muslim Arabs ruled Sicily from 827 to 1072, and they built a civilization there, and their monuments, inscriptions, and mosques are still found there. Their dialect contains Arabic words. It is natural to find similarities between them and the Arabs because they mixed with Arabs and Arabs mixed with them. Some of them may be Arabs and he does not know
One Love Sicily.
That's why I have always feel there is communication between me as Arab and Italian ppl. Now I know why. We have same attitude same way everything
lol no
@@0okini591 no I’m arabian But with all due respect to the Italian people, they are not Arabs at all. Yes, there are some of them who have Arab genes, but this does not mean that they are Arabs at all. We are of pure race because our blood does not mix with anyone.
@@s.smalls7449 with all due respect to Arabs , we are happy to be Italian and we don't have any need or will to be anything else . Just remember that Italy has the largest number of World Heritage sites , as reflection of its cultural wealth .
@@justroman2150 not really!! So many Romanian kings were arabs like phillip al arabi and his son phillip the second
Also Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalu
There's another one i forgot his name
His name is something.... Arabico
@@s.smalls7449 اذا تبي نكون صريحين… الدم العربي اختلط مع باقي الاعراق خصوصا ايام ملك اليمين والجواري، ومع تصادم حضارتنا مع الفرس و الرومان والاتراك و الامازيغ و الاكراد وغيرهم، مافي احد ١٠٠٪ عربي مافيه عرق اجنبي ابداً ابداً، نعم احنا نحتفظ ب انسابنا و اجدادنا وهذا شي حسن لكن صعبة انك تقول الدم العربي ابدا ما اختلط مع اعراق اخرى
I’m Sicilian
You are from north Africa
You're part eggplant
@@jewishtelabib3728 🤣🤣🤣😭
@@chocolate6315 I'm north African Tunisian
Mhagreb gang ⚔️🇹🇳🇩🇿🇲🇦⚔️
@@malekaltayari3936 caratgine has nothing to do with the Tunisians
So what your telling me as a calabrese and baresi descendent I probably have Arab ancestry :) makes sense
Castle qurliyum hahhaha that is the place where the corleone got created nice map with the arab names
Watering our brothers We ruled that land at the time of the Aghlabids, the Fatimids and the Carthaginians. It is a land of paradise🇹🇳♥️
Ivan Van Sertima: The Golden age of the Moors
Jawhar the Sicilian
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So it’s possible I have moors in my family history interesting 🤔
Yeah but moors are black Muslims that's what moors means ,at least to the Greeks and Romans,yes there were Arabs and Berbers too the moors a heavily mixed group don't let this man tell u there only Arabs which is completely false on any factual level
@@user-vl2mr8mr5u black means pale and blond. Moor es Moreno = brown. Sri Lankan Moors, Malaysian Moors, ChandraGupta Maurya, Lenape Moors, Delaware Moors. Many different Moorish families all around the world besides Muslim
@@ALYoungFuture13 moors that ran thru al andalus in Spain, is who I'm referring too
@@ALYoungFuture13 black means pale and blonde?? That makes absoulty no sense
Example Almohad caliphate was dominantly black
Explains my darker Brothas in Sicily lol
I just came here after watching true romance lol for fact checking 😂
You are half eggplant! 😂
Explains why I am so dark skinned and Italian calabrese
My God, always those "berber revolts" I swear...
There was only one…
@@zoneplay7145 I was referring to the Berber revolt of 740 and thought initially, due to its prominence, of Andalus. I had no clue that it also affected Tunisia. To be fair though, the revolt broke out in Morocco and not in Tunisia, so it’s kinda understandable to assume that it was a different, or a second one.
Annoying as hell
iam italian revert muslim who live in rome
shame
@@0okini591 shame for what islam saves my life bro
@@bubbub165 a pedophilic cult saved your life? you have been lied to you are being misleaded
@@0okini591 lol nope iam not even muslim i just want attention to muslim who obsessed with white convert
@@0okini591 Seethe. Islam is taking over Europe.
The Sicilian side of my family hails from Rometta, the last village in Sicily to fall to the Arab invaders. Many/most of the inhabitants of the city were Greek-speaking Christians who were all slaughtered or sold into slavery and according to what I read online the village was then repopulated with Muslims. My 23and Me DNA shows "Egyptian" as well as "Arabian" DNA (in addition to North African) as part of my Sicilian heritage so I am pretty sure we in large part descend from these people along with the other inhabitants of the area of course.
They were not slaughtered they maybe had to pay tax ,Arabs or Berbers were 5% ruling class,like romans in England
@@mrjugurtha4077 Ok, whatever! Tell me more about my grandfather's village, which I've been to, and you haven't. Rometta was decimated because they dared to resist. The jizya is for those who submit.
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Except that we aren’t “N-words”.
🤣🤣
@@muaddib989 you absolutely are. 🤷🏻
@@Sophia-cw4pu
Okay a white guy is calling Africans “n-words” & I am stating “no we are not n-words”.
I dk why you’re disagreeing with me or even calling “us” that word. But I am not that word. That word has nothing to do with Africans (north, central, south, east or west). That word was/is used by white racist to place them over us.
@@muaddib989Well, technically it does. The "N word" as you refer to it comes from the Latin word "Niger" meaning "black" referring to skin colour. The Latin for white is "Albus". It's also where we get the country name of Nigeria and the race ethnicity of "Negro". It just means the colour "black" in Latin. Down through the centuries it was used by some in a derogatory way, which is where we get so-called "N word" of today.
Muslims was strong because they were united
@Gaytanity 638 is the creator God or Allah helps the Muslims in every battle God bless the Muslim ummah
@@almamybokarbirobarry780 And high honors goes to the Moorish people who Civilized most of Europe, and they have the nerve to say that the Amagizhs were barbarians! Yes they may have been brutal in battle, at war , but the Moors was of high culture, it was the Moorish people who Cirvnavigate the whole entire Earth, it was they the Moorish people who introduced the alphabet to Europe which is still used today, Phonetics Phonics to improve their speech. It was the Moorish people who were the Masters of the High seas , Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean. The Moors ( Moorish) had the largest Empire in the world, Libya, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, etc... Across the Atlantic Ocean onto the Americas, not counting Spain , Portugal and Southern France . Remember, the Maghreb was the name that the Moors called their territory , their Empire, the Farthest West, where the Sun sets.
Now, sadly they are only strong in relgion but very weak in politics in world stage because of lack of unity.
@@jeffbillings-el6110lmaoo civilised who? Almoravids considered civilising sin and ummayads werent moors 😂 it was normans who civlized u in sicily after battle of cerami 😂 muslim historians themselves brag about it
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The moors conquered Sicily
the saudis did .. go look up where the aghlabids are from originally
Moors are Arabs
No my dear 😅 they were Arabs
@@RedRose-cn8ln the Moors are Arabs
Yes till they were conquered by normans
My DNA lead me here
it was the moors not the arabs get your facts straight
Moors is another name for the Arabs 🤡
They were Arabs ,called Aghabids not Africans Go Study History Before You Comment !!
This is inaccurate. The Moors conquered Sicily. They were not all Muslims neither were they all Arab. Moor is the more accurate identity of the people.
Moroccans? 🤣 These people were in Tunisia and they are Arabs, called the Aghlabids, who came from Najd
Shut up and stop lying 😅 . They were Arabs 😁
@@Dvcxl JEWISH "Marrocans".
Proud Arabian 🇲🇦ض
They also went further north in Italy and made it pretty far in France too. Look at all the dark haired people in Italy and France. They put a lot of the European women in harems. Most of the Romans had more blonde hair. The Arabs brought their DNA to southern Europe.
No they didn't, that's what the neocucks wants you to think, search plan kalergi, paneuropa, you will see...
@@oscardom__ yes they did genius ..stay ignorant
Dude greek Byzantines were always black haired and the harem was a turkish thing not an arab or berber thing 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Harem is a turkish thing not arab it was intruduced in the 11 century
you’re south european yourself yet you say this. Inferiority complex much?
Are you an arab
@@rabeezidane9407 maybe he learnt accent
Itaalia benevito
Im Taliban
It’s Roman not Byzantine
At that time there was no longer Roman Empire. After the 6th century the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire was assimilated by Greek culture, and we can speak of the Byzantine Empire
The people called themselves romans
@@theoldcavalier7451 , That's right, because they considered themselves the heirs of the Roman Empire
On the point of being Roman the entire world called them Roman until the usurper Charamange created a fake Roman Empire also the reason of the world except Europe called them Roman
@@HistoryClass the Byzantine empire was still the Roman Empire. The were the inheritors of the Eastern Roman Empire that had survived(the western Roman empire were defeated in their war against the visigoths) and they remained unopposed until Muslims from Arabia took most of their lands
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Go Tunisia 🇹🇳.. we need to take back our Sicilia 🤣
this is not tunisia the rulers the aghlabids are from banu tamim in saudi arabia
Lol what u need to do is pay me tribute as ur norman over lord like sicily emirate did after battle of cerami and misilmeri 😂😂
Joking 😜
until 931 when the Normans kicked their ass.
"BaldwinIv" no wonder why are u angry😂😂😂
The Normans attacked when they noticed internal strife plagued Muslim Italy. Your crusaders had their asses handed to them by Baibars to the point where you guys considered teaming up with the Mongols to defeat the Mamlukes lol.
Ok and normans like the Arabs they kept them there
@@Alex-tx2em..it was 130 normans vs 5k+ muslims at battle of cerami fym? Lmao cope? And crusaders conquered u for 200+ years when egyptians had that land from 2000 years 😂😂 When did muslims make it to franks? Battle of tours?😂 cope and seethe
@@xirvtwhyd baldwin 4th be angry lol he whooped saladin, remember
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They were Moorish people, Ruling the Moorish Empire, even in the America's, the Maghreb ( The farthest West) where the Sun sets. The Moorish people are the real Amagizhs! ( People born of Noble birth) or Nobles, Freeman , the veil , the Blue people . These are the many names for the Moorish people, the real Amagizhs.
wdym moorish people it was first ruled by the Aghlabid dynasty from Tunisia that descent from Banu tamim tribe
there arabic cultures came from North Africa via the East from Turkey to Lebanon...Genetics confirm this
@W for real coming from a afro american cringe dude with his slave master name originally from angola
It's " The Arab conquest" not the amazghi conquest 😂 africans want to claim the Arabs history
There is no such thing as the Moroccan Empire. Stop stealing Arab history!
See how they call Moors , Arabs !
@SamuelThat was a Moorish conquest , not Arabs !
But Moors were considered Arabs , we all looked and dress alike .
Dark Olive skin Arabs were the first to inhabit Arabia , this was when Arabia was heavily vegetated ,and the sand wasn't there , the same with the Sahara Desert , the sand wasn't there the whole time , vegetation was beautiful , how you think the Oasis got there 🤔🤔🤔 the rest has been dried up .
@@jeffbillings-el6110 dude ur history is tupac and the conquest of detroit haha
@@Samuel-vo4lg
No they were NOT black. But they used black people for the army.
Its the Arab conquest whether you like it or not. Cuz that's the real history.. the Arab conquests of Sicily, Andalucia, Sindh, Egypt, Iran, France, North Africa & etc....
@@ary599 The Moors were looked upon as Arabs too.
They both were Asiatics, they both were Moslems, and they both had an Olive hue, just different Nationality. History doesn't give the Arabs the honor
For the Conquest of the Iberian Penicillin, the Arabs joined later, but they didn't run anything. It was the Moorish Moslems that established AL-Andalus and the Al-Maghreb ( the farthest west, where the Sunsets on the Moorish Empire. You better go study 📚 📝 ✏️ 📚 some more. 🤣😅😂🙃 You have the wrong history 📜 🤭🤭🤭🤔🤔🤔
Berbers not Arab
Actually they are They speak Arabic and were within the Islamic empire all of North Africa are Arabs
Aghlabid Abbasid fatimid we're the Arab dynasties who conquered and ruled sicilia so what odes berbers have to do with this
@@s.smalls7449
The Arabic language was used by the Berbers and they invented a script in it..normal...North African Berbers are not Arabs, culturally, religiously, geographically, historically
@@Skikdii
It is not true that you support the policy of Arabization North Africa is not Arab
@@alexanderxinkov7083 aghlabids r arabs not berbers go get educated
If you do your research Sicilians are black if you look at the siciliano haplogroups and the moors invaded Sicily before the berbers
You better do your research over buddy, Black means Sub Saharan blood. Y need to stop watching movies.
@@averageguy2525 you have no idea Sicilians are black
@@dtbalexofficial bro ur history is tupac and the conquest gangs of detroit haha
@@dtbalexofficialbrown not black
It's more than a True Romance reference