They will not make movies where they portray the fight against Islam as a positive thing. This is why they always show us how bad/evil the Crusades were. Europe have had an 1300 years old battle with Islam. If not the Moors, then the Barbary, if not the Barbary, then the Ottomans, or Turkish. They killed/kidnapped/raped/enslaved millions of Europeans but Hollywood will never show us these things in films.
@@ojancano_bebedorNot precisely the best example. Yeah great hollywoodian movie with Charlton Heston but too many mistakes like all hollywoodian Historical movies.
Random fun fact: by the later stages of reconquista, the christian kings started to REALLY get into chess and other board games like backgammon and after the fall of Granada, under the Catholic Monarchy, chess was reinvented to add the Queen as the most powerful piece, letting bishops move as far as they wanted, and started using the game for dating
The queen and bishops are just rename for the original wazir(minister/general) and the elephant brigades (respectively) to honor both the queen and the monks in their efforts of ending the Iberian muslim kingdoms
Muslim Granada was valuable economically to the Iberian Christian kingdoms so they let it survive, until the Ottoman conquest of the Eastern Roman Empire tipped the power balance in the Mediterranean in favor of the Muslims. The Iberian Christians were afraid of losing their gains to the Muslims reinvigorated by the Ottomans, so they decided to remove the chance that Muslim Granada would become a toehold on the peninsula for the Ottomans. The 200 years of Granada's survival after the fall of Seville ended under this geopolitical circumstance, which caused the Iberian Christian monarchs to become "more religious" as the narrative says. The final conquest of Granada proved to be strategically necessary for the Iberian Christians since the Ottomans soon after became a big naval power and took over most of muslim North Africa, took Greek and Adriatic islands from the Venetians, Rhodes from the Knights, and laid siege to Malta at the doorsteps of Italy.
What's more impressive than the reconquista itself is the formation of the maritime Iberian civilizations that followed shortly after the centuries of reconquests
We can see that they were dominating the Mediterranean even during the 1300 with the Italian states and the kingdom of Aragon. They even send an small force of 6000 Spanish almogavares to fight against the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia under the command of Roger de flor. They absolutely bamboolezed the Ottoman Turks in every battle while being outnembered by the Turks. But sadly they got betrayed by the byzantines. The Iberians would continue on in humiliating the Ottoman Turks in many other areas. Completely dominating the Turks in the Indian ocean and the Mediterranean including the Atlantic. Indeed the Ottoman Turks were so scared of the fierce of the Iberian warriors that they had nightmares for centuries about them coming to their lands and taking their daughters such as in la jornada de Túnez 1535 and the battle of Lepanto 1571.
@@LetnistonwandifOttomans however overpower Spain in every point of history. Spain couldn't even challenge Ottomans without a "Holy League" it took them another occasion at Lepanto to partially reverse the annihilations of Preveza and Djerba, prior to that Spain was getting humiliated by Barbarossa alone despite the support of various European nations like Portugal, Genoa & Venice, now when even an allied Spain didn't genuinely dominate the Ottomans in naval wars how could they do it one on one in full scale wars ?
@@nenenindonu The Portuguese did not help. It was only the only small Italian states and Spain that the formed the holy league in the Mediterranean. The ottomans had the pirate Berber states. Barbarrosa only won one battle against the Spanish and was humiliated afterwards in the conquest of Tunis. These are the battles were the ottomans were humiliated by the Spanish Spanish conquest of Oran 1732) (Humilliating defeat for thé ottomans) Spanish conquest of Oran 1509 (Spanish Victory) Battle of Alborán (Humilliating defeat for ottomans) Battle of Cape Celidonia (extremely humilliating defeat of ottomans) Battle of Cape Corvo (Another humilliating defeat for ottomans) Battle of Girolata( Another victory of spain) Great Siege of Malta( This one was with allies but the ottomans still had more soldiers and they got massacred) Holy League 1535 (Another victory for Spain and his allies still the ottomans had allies too) Capture of Mahdia 1550 (Humilliating defeat for ottomans) Siege of Oran 1556 (Spanish victory) Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir (Humilliating ottoman defeat) Ottoman invasion of Otranto (Humilliating defeat for ottomans they surrended even if they were 18 000 compared to 2100 christian forces) Ottoman-Habsburg wars( Spanish hasburg victorie tooking back Hungrary) Siege of the Castle of Saint George (Spanish victory) Conquest of Tunis 1535 (Spanish victory) Siege of Vienna 1529 (One of the most humilliating defeats of ottomans) Siege of Castelnuovo (Even if this was an ottoman victory i wanted to show that even if the Spanish soldiers were outnembered 1 to 6 they still managed to kill more than half of the army this shows that mallority of the battles that ottoman won it was because they had so much more numerical advantage) Conquest of Tunis 1574 (This battle its another example of what i was talking about outnembering and still getting fckd) And battle of lepanto 1571 (another humilliating defeat for the ottomans by the Spaniards) Sitio de Orán y Mazalquivir 1563(Thé most humilliating defeat for thé ottomans 1500 Spaniards vs 100 000 Ottomans and Jannisaries and It ended in an Décisive Spanish Victory. Almost thé entire Ottoman army slaughtered. Toma de Mahdía (1550) Siege of the Castle of Saint George(1500) Spanish victory
@@nenenindonu The ottomans never overpowered the Spanish. They got humiliated in almost every battle by them . Even Suleiman was scared of Charles V of Spain.
There are a few thing bad in this video. -The "infamous" Spanish inquisition started in 1492, after the reconquista was finished. It's estimated there were 1000 executions (in the whole empire 31M pop, not just Spain) between 1530-1630 and 250 between 1630 and 1730. While in Germany (with less population 16M pop, and in a short period) executed 2500. All of this AFTER the reconquista -Catalonia was not a Kingdom, they not were even united at all, they were a group of independent counties. -Asturias was not an independent or different Kingdom, it's the succesor of the Visigoth Kingdom, the ones who exile from the rest of the peninsula seek shelter there -The kingdom of Portugal appears from the Kingdom of Galicia (that later was annexed by Leon), not from Leon -The Catholic Kings invaded Granada cause the new Emir refuse to keep the payments not just for "intolerance". Great animations and good resume
It's very contested that Pelayo was even a Visigoth, so I find it hard to claim that Asturias was just the continuation of the Visigoth Kingdom. He was likely an Astur-roman caudillo.
To all my Spanish brothers, a big hug from Portugal. Sometimes i wonder what our Global Empire would have been if we were united as one since the Reconquista.
@@2200Stinger Consider not only that we would've had our combined power, but also we wouldn't have made certain decisions and investments had we not feared and threatened each other. We would probably be technologically on par with them, so we would've had a fighting chance, at the very least.
You crucially forgot about Republacion (repopulation). One of the reasons why the Reconquest lasted so long was that in the early part the Christians cleansed reconquered areas and repopulated them with their own people. This process takes generations.
@@SiPakRubah In all likelihood, yes. Genocide is frequent in history and should only surprise us amateur historians. But in all honesty it's impossible to tell how much repoblacion involved expelling versus killing. That's why I used the word "cleansing."
Yeah. There are old (medieval) *churches* in Iberia with images and statuettes depicting various "positions" of sexual intercourse for the peasantry to learn from. Back then they were dead serious with the repopulation effort. I remember the time I'm discussing with my friend about current demographic crisis in East Asia (Japan & South Korea) and the world in general. He said that demographic decline is irreversible and Japan will lose like half of its current population by 2100. I said to him, while that might be true, the general trend itself is NOT actually irreversible. There are instances, including in medieval Spain, which a society was able to reinvigorate their population growth thru concerted effort (not to mention we have the technology to actually breed humans with "science" now). Something similar has been recorded elsewhere, including in China (the growth during Song Dynasty), India, and the Middle East. IIRC there is passage in the Bible about how the tribes of Israel repopulate Canaan (modern Israel, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan region).
i appreciate your intellectual honesty. often times when discussing the Reconquista, people have a tendency to gloss over the formation of Portugal, treating it as a side note
@cerealpipe Thats the go to Portuguese argument, but even if you want reject the the fact that Espania dervrives from "Hispania" and the Visigoths refered to it as "Spania", Castilian is the official national language of Spain is it not? Kingdom of Castile 11th Century 1065 AD Kingdom of Portugal 12th Century 1139 AD Either way, as a Spaniard of Galician heritage, today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation ( instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. ( Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them) Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West.. *Reconquista II Intensifies* DEUS VULT!
@@jcsfc2842 Was it tho? Any sources on that? Still, it would be more appropriate to use the pronunciation everyone is familiar with. Historians almost always use the nomenclature that is closer and more familiar to us in the modern era.
Glory to our Roman brothers of Hispania from a Roman brother of Romania. Be proud of your glory! Stay strong as Christians and Romans because this is our identity as Latin Europeans!🇷🇴❤🇪🇸🇵🇹
Even north Africa and the Middle East can claim to be Roman, just because you are Christian its doesn't make you Roman! Africa and the Middle East were far more important than Hiberia or Dacia!
So you think genocide is glorious? Or only glorious when christians do it and to be condemned when muslim conquerers did it? You think what putin does in Ukraine is glorious to? Because it looks similiar to what i just saw in this video.
Just to add that 1415 marked the conquest of Ceuta harbour city in Africa. The Portuguese new dynasty considered the possibility of trying to conquer Granada, but changed its mind because it would bring some problems with Castille. This year marked the beginning of the Age of Discovery
@@habibturay9930under islamic rule in the andaluce they had freedom of faith..the jews, christians and muslims thrived peacefully..cut the nonsense about islamic thumb
@@itubecollection1623 What freedom of faith. Please do your research. If christian really had freedom of faith than why did they flee north to kingdom of Asturias.
@@itubecollection1623 No, they were always second class citizens, even in the most "tolerant" muslim kingdoms. Not saying the christians were always tolerant, but the idea of tolerant muslims is just an idealisation repeated by fundamental muslims.
As a Coptic Christian from Egypt, I really hope that our country can be retaken like the Spanish did. I congratulate the Spanish for their remarkable reconquest of their rightful land
Surprised the mods left this comment up... they deleted mine when I drew comparisons of Israelis "colonising" lands around Israel and Arabs colonising land in Egypt.
Bro,that’s not true imo.Spanish and the Catalan Company were committing atrocities in Greece(Eastern Roman Empire at that time),for over a century and were a big reason for the decline of the population and culture of Romans.
Catalonia was a region including several lordships and counties, not a kingdom. After the decay of the Frankish Carolingian rule in the Hispanic March, the County of Barcelona was the preeminent power in the region. The dynastic union resulting from the marriage of the Princess of Aragon and the Count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer IV, resulted into the Crown of Aragon. Later it included the kingdoms of Valencia and Majorca, as well as the italian kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia until 1714.
The Crown of Aragon included the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdo. Of Valencia, the Kingdom of Naples...and the County of Barcelona. Today's fanatic catalonian independentists will tell you otherwise, but it is just propaganda. They also say that all the important figures of history are catalonian too (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Cid, Americo Vespuccio...)
@@alwoolridge6377 in Catalonia no one claims all this bullshit you are saying, stop with your lies. The only ones that try to alter history are some fanatic Spanish ppl that even try to say that Catalan is not a language and other ridiculous things which clearly have been proven untrue
@@joansuero9063 to be a kingdom you gotta have the title of king . 1117 was the first time someone talked about Catalonia and catalans ( or the oldest date we have proof )
@@jpfg2713 Spain has well over 2 million Muslims, while 30 years ago it had a tenth of that at most, and Africans are constantly crossing over to Spain, to Ceuta, Canaries or Andalusia. I think he refers to that, if all the migrants actually stayed in Spain that would indeed be pretty bad and they would already be a majority in many places but most cross it to go to other parts of Europe. Portugal does not have these problems because they do not directly border Morocco and migrants prefer to move to richer countries in Europe or stay in Spain. The thing is that this number only increases and they are usually having more kids than the locals, kids that often do not feel Spanish but of their parent's nationality and many of those practice Islam and even want to expand it, so Spain may have in the not so distant future a big social problem.
@@lluis9650 I am from Serbia, my nation suffered nearly 600 FUCKING YEARS under Ottoman rule so it saddens me that Europe's leaders today are willingly islamising Europe AGAIN. Take care
Everyone talks about the colonisation of Africa and the struggle for independence. But it was actually Portugal and Spain who had to first fight for independence from African oppression
So the Muslims invaded and colonized a native European land and then the Christian Europeans took back their lands. No one ever talks about the slavery, colonialism, and genocide committed by Muslim hands. The near east was ethnically cleansed of Ionians, phonecoans, Pontiacs, and armenians but no one talks about that because it’s “racist” to criticize Muslim Arabs
@@Usarofoboi14329 If Muslims don’t colonize their Iberian peninsula, then why do the Spanish celebrate reconquista as the expelling of the foreign Muslim regime? We get it. Colonialism is only bad when white Christians do it. Genocide, persecution, imperialism, and colonialism is celebrated when every other culture does it.
@@aryanks2167 Pretty racist to blame someone from an entirely different content for things that happened centuries ago by different peoples. Low IQ take mate, but that aligns with your videos.
it is worth mentioning that the shadow cast by British colonialism has often overshadowed the contributions of both Spain and Portugal. The British Empire's historical narrative has been dominant, emphasizing their own achievements while downplaying the accomplishments of other nations. This biased rewriting of history has unfortunately diminished the recognition that Portugal and Spain rightfully deserve. A great example would be the bias in Hollywood movies, particularly those about pirates and corsairs, often omits the significant contributions and roles played by Spain and Portugal during s.XVI-XVIII. Instead, the focus tends to be on English and French figures, perpetuating the notion that they were the primary players in maritime history.
It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.
@@EligioCazzaniga No. You were talking about Iberian Natives. They haven't controlled Iberia since before the Carthaginians who settled nearly 3000 years ago. I was just pointing out your comment is worthless.
1:20 The kingdom of Aquitaine foreshadows Occitania. Because feudalism, Aquitaine was divided in many principalities: the Frankish kings took advantage of this division to annex Occitanie (formerly: Aquitaine) piece by piece to their domain between 1213 (annexation of the county of Auvergne) and 1860 (annexation of the county of Nice). The core of present-day France is therefore the agglomeration of the kingdom of the Franks with the former kingdom of Aquitaine, and even Brittany, because Brittany also lost its independence in 1532.
There are a lot of things that are no well explained. The reconquista is usually romanticized, there were a lot of clashes between catholic kingdoms too, as they were between muslim caliphates. Also, Catalonia was never a kingdom, it was the county of Barcelona or the Catalan counties. But it's properly done that Castille and Aragon are not merged into Spain, that would be later, it's considered with Charles I. And until 1714 'Nova Planta Decrees', they had very different laws.
This is why I'm grateful for my Asturian ancestors. Their cause eventually led to the rise of the Spanish Empire, which resulted in their 16th century descendants arriving in the New World at the port of Veracruz in 1540, where, over the next century, travelled up the Rio Grande to Santa Fe, then south to El Paso, and gradually spread throughout what would eventually become West Texas.
A tough brethren. Tell the Romans, it was till Augustus at great cost and savagery that they finally were able to conquer those lands in Hispania. The real “Asterix” must have been Astur or Cantabri but well you know the French 😜.
As a Iberian I'm proud of my ancestors did, D. PELAGIO is the warrior king 👑 of all Iberians, from Algarve to basque country, and Galiza to Catalunia and everything between
Para mí , el reino de Asturias era asombroso , Galicia pertenecía al reino, ayudaba a luchar contra los vikingos y además se expandieron hacia el sur, el mejor rey de Asturias, además de Pelayo, Alfonso segundo
Yes perhaps there would be some original culture remaining in the Caribbean and Central/South America instead of the populations being purged and their history and cultures wiped out as we see today.
@@SmokingLaddy Spanish colonisation was based on the “mestizos”, the mixed people from indigenous and Spanish people, which gave birth to the “Latinos” we call today. Unlike British colonisation who was based on extermination.
@@SmokingLaddy I am not talking about English having to do with Mexico, estoy hablando de la diferencia entre la colonización inglesa de sus territorios que reposaba sobre la exterminación de los indígenas y la colonización española que reposaba sobre el mestizo de las poblaciones .
A most impressive breakdown of the Reconquista, thanks for the amazing contribution. Just a few notes from a spanish native speaker: The kingdom is called Asturias, and the city or Córdoba is pronounced 'COrdoba, rather than cor'DOba.
The centuries-long occupation was aimed at perpetrating genocide and ethnic replacement against the Iberian natives by the occupying Arab colonizers. The reconquest and subsequent inquisition finally brought justice to the natives and their lands raped by the imperialism of the occupying colonizing power.
It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.
@@EligioCazzaniga Es difícil hablar de invasores y nativos cuando los Visigodos apenas habían terminado de conquistar la península (y aún les costaba mantener la integridad territorial).
@@antoniomari4126 The centuries-long occupation was aimed at perpetrating genocide and ethnic replacement against the Iberian natives by the occupying Arab colonizers. The reconquest and subsequent inquisition finally brought justice to the natives and their lands raped by the imperialism of the occupying colonizing power.
@@youwhat491 because for survive the colonisation they had to became expansive xenophobic colonizers. Muslims with their oppression created a monster. Too because muslims refused to share spices with them.
The Almohad collapse was a huge civil war that fractured the empired into many pieces some of which allied with Christian’s. They conquered warring jigsaw pieces not the entire puzzle
The Almohads themselves invaded Andalucia and conquered the other Muslim states. Much of Andalucia's history is Spanish Muslims fighting or being conquered by radical North African Muslims.
@@EmisoraRadioPatio They werent any more radical then Christian Iberians, by todays standers almost everyone in the 12th century was radical, the correct term would be more puritanical. The almoravids were actually invited by andalusians knowing that they were ineffective in holding back the reconquista, the almohads were embraced for a while, things are never black and white. many andalusians despised them for their puritanical policies, a few admired what they saw to be saviours because their people were living too lavish and spoilt.
@@mateenundre1415ol Christianity went from being cornered to conquering an entire continent out of nowhere. It’s almost like God meant Christianity and the Spanish people to spread after the crusade of Granada. If He’s picking favorites, it’s not Turkey because the Balkans went on to spit out their language and culture.
Just for context, this wasn't only about a religious war. It took 8 centuries because most of the time cultures were well integrated and benefited from the islamic golden age in science and economy. Most of the times christians were fighting christians and muslims were fighting muslims. You can see that with the creation of Portugal that actually integrated the islamic golden age into it's own golden age after finally controlling the entire territory as we know it today. So it was a clash and mixing of cultures until the best of the best got out on top to take leadership in the world for the next centuries.
There was no Islamic golden age. That is a myth you tell yourselves because admitting that you were just warlike peasant thugs from Arabia who conquered sedentary peoples who you enslaved to become your soldiers hurts your pride. There is no time in history or any current situation that isn't worse with Islam.
@@MrMustang13Do you even know how bad was the Medieval era in Europe, where the only people that can only learned to read is the authocratic family only, and also witch hunt is so rampant, and superstitious beliefs like black cats should be killed causing the bubonic plague in the first place? Even the Muslims at least has libraries that was shared towards everyone, has hygienes far better than European, that even when an Arab traveler went there, they say the Vikings were lack of hygiene, while they're the most hygienic European at that time
I often talk to Africans of different origins, and they always incriminate the Europeans of being arrogant and avid invaders. However, when I remind them of this part of the history, and the Carthage invasion as well, they suddenly get disoriented.
@@gregphillipsel9906. You didn’t understand his point. The problem with many Africans and other races is that they love just pointing the finger at Europeans for Conquests and colonialism when Africa invaded us first as well as the Mongolians and ottomans and when Spain and other European nations who for generations were trampled on by these other nations rose up and OBLITERATED their enemies and conquered most of the World then they want to call them The bad guys and accuse only them of conquests.
Don't say European, better say English, Netherlanders, Belgian and French. But mostly English (and their heirs, the USA). Making "European" culprit of British "deeds" is like making black Africans responsible of the conquest of Spania and Indonesian of the conquest of Constantinople 😂
In maths 'X' is a placeholder for unknown. Because Spanish translators used it for the Arabic letter "ش/sheen"(for sh sound). Which was used in Arabic in place of "Shai"(thing/entity)
As a Spanish I thank you for telling this significant crucial war in the history of Spain since it is not only the end of Muslim rule but it is linked to the beginning of what will be the expansion in America and the birth of the Spanish empire, also known as "the empire in which the sun never set" greetings from the Canary Islands, Spain, the place from which the ships of the empire departed for the "new world" 🇪🇸🇮🇨❤️🏴
@@Omarrah3214 which is absolutely useless today. It’s not even turkeys capital now. He didn’t even want you to win after that. Considering Christianity absolutely destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Sorry bud. It’s true
I drove to many Spanish cities as well as Portugal and a ferry ride to Morocco over a 3 week period. I was amazed by the beauty of these places, the old structures, and the people. With 75% of my DNA originating from southern Spain, my imagination ran wild wondering who my distant relatives were and what their lives and history were like.
The Reconquista was essentially over after the 1212 Navas de Tolosa battle, took a little over 500 years to complete in reality. Then it lingered on for 2 and a half more centuries cause Castille and Leon allowed it to, since it was economically beneficial.
"Reconsquista" is concept from 19th and 20th century Spanish historiography that it's under great discussion nowadays. Most of the nowadays Medievalist reject the idea, as a 19th and 20th century nationalistic projection to a medieval past. The truth is that Iberian Middle Ages are much more complex than a unified Christian push towards the unification of the peninsula. And as a side note, Navarre should have much more importance in those maps, these are especially incorrect around the year 1000s. - From a Iberia medievalist.
Estes gajos sou loucos penam em União Ibérica,mas por alma de quem nem morto.Sou português falo o meu idioma era bonito os portugueses em vez de chamar Pai Mãe iam Chamar Padre e Madre - Padre é nas Igreijas Madre é nos comventos.Não esquecendo que o ódio com os castelhanos que os português há seculos. OLIVÊNÇÃO É TERRITÓRIO PORTUGUÊS CEUTA É TERRITÓRIO DE MARRCOS.A Espanha Castela devia ter vergonha.
The fact that here in Australia, I saw more moslems than I could count getting around just yesterday, when they'd been fought off from Christendom, is tragic. It's time for a similar approach here, now.
@@ChrisShortyAllen Going to school, again? I'd love to got to school again, how our schools were 'til relatively recently. Both my former primary school and; even worse, my former high school, are now overwhelmed by "diversity" though. With Australian students being made the minority. And, what's this "toes" business, anyway?....
Catalonia never existed as a kingdom or any kind of political entity. It was created later as a principality by the Crown of Aragon, without political comsequences.
@@ksodz1397 No, Counties of Barcelona, Osona and Gerona were ruled by the count of Barcelona, but the others (Besalú, Cerdaña, Rosellón, Ampurias, Lérida, Tortosa, etc) used to have its own count before they were conquered or incorporated to Aragon. Catalonia was created later by the Crown of Aragon in order to join those heterogeneous territories into the territory of the realm of Aragon.
@@abelmedina8443are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure all other catalan counties were joined to the demesne of the count of Barcelona before his marriage with aragon.
The "kingdom of catalonia" was never such, it was a principality. Sadly as of modern times, this is an important difference. The ruler of that area was a Baron, not a King.
Portugal foi o primeiro Reino a reconquistar os territórios até ao sul ( Algarve), e atualmente é o único país sobrevivente dos Reinos ibéricos medievais. Viva Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Olá, sou brasileiro descendente de portugueses e amo Portugal também. Nosso pai. Embora tenham roubado riquezas naturais daqui, não odeio Portugal por isso já que isso era comum nessa época.
My least favorite comment on history videos are “wOooW wHy dIdnT i lEaRn tHis iN scHooL” interested in a topic then find out about it. Don’t expect your high school history teacher to go teach you every historical subject
@@ryeguy7941 who…who has that narrative? Also, can you admit that sometimes the west was indeed ‘bad’? Or must the west, unlike any other civilisation to have very existed, be viewed only through its positive deeds and never its negative ones? If there’s one civilisation that I can think of that is judged almost wholly for its evil it’s the Assyrians who are viewed as savages who invented one thousand and one ways to torture a man to death and not much else. The west, if anything, comes off much better than some of its parts deserve.
@doo2786 that's not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is when viewing civilizations through the moral lense, academia over the years has viewed Western civilization as this irredeemable evil that's responsible for all the ills in the world while ignoring the fact everyone else was doing exactly what the West was doing and ignoring the fact the West stopped doing it while everyone else continued or in some cases continues to do it. A perfect example is in the actual video. Everyone knows about the Spanish inquisition because it was this evil thing they did, and it'd constantly brought up, but ignoring the reconquista because that would portray the Spanish ie a European group ie Westerners ie White people as victims of non White aggression and that does not fit in with the progressive/woke/sjw narrative of the Westerners always being the aggressors and non whites the victims. You understand now?
It almost happenned to ottoman. Russian empire at the ninth russo-turkish war (19th century) already very closed to constantinople, but england as ottoman ally at that time stopped it.
And France as well. Multiple times in history they did that, just because they didn't want a strong Russia. It's disgusting, shameful, and a betrayal of Christians. We still haven't made up to the Eastern Romans (Greeks) for 1204.
I feel like you were going to talk about the batle of Ourique at 3:46 but forgot 😂 For clarification its the first major Christian victory against the Almoravids in the field and where King Afonso the first of Portugal gained the prestige and recognition to declare himself king In são mamede he just took the county
As a brazilian, it's crazy to think i wouldn't exist if the the kingdom of Asturias hadn't resisted against the moors, because the age of navigations probably wouldn't exist and Brazil wouldn't be created. Thanks iberian christians for the reconquista.
1..the Aztec empire slave the majority indegen people and used to human sacrifice .. ...the Inca empire the same.. 2..Britain exterminated the native people..and like slavery. 3..france the same... 4..Spain mixed with native people, and Christianity finished the slavery ..
@@brunomoretti7594 This is because you don't understand Islam. :) In big cities of UK, Sweden and other first world nations have a huge Muslim ninority. In the areas they live in it's very dangerous for police to enter (and they rarely do), and those who live there are living according to the laws of Saria (kind off breaking a law of the countries they're in) And these people are protected at all cost, and the countries don't do anything to help the original inhabitants. Like I have a ton of relatives in Germany and they pretty much live in fear. For ex, these immigrants raped a lots of women, and young boys, but when one of Germany's own politician tried to make thesee statistics public she was arrested. You also kind of underestimate a lifetime of indoctrination. If they became a majority in a country they have an obligation to try to instate an Islamic state. (while if they're the minority they can live by the laws of the nation, because Quran allows this) Also maybe you don't know, but Islam changed very little during the centuries. They still have the very violent laws (for ex public flogging, stoning, honor killing, slavery etc) and it was never reformed. They're trying to take the key politoical/educational roles in Europe (Scotland last Prime minister was an Musulman, and he did wage a war on free speech because we're not allowd to criticize Islam, see Charlie Hebdo) This will not end well for Europeans and to our culture. This is an extremely old fight between Europe and Islam (1300 years old to be precise) Just that now they don't try to use military, but politics, rethorics, and Europe's tolerance laws.
@@pepita2437 Yes, as I stated before, poor immigration choices. Nothing more than that. For it to be a holy war, there must be a Christian group fighting the muslim group, and Europe doesn't really care about religion anymore. And yeah, there are many violent immigrants, a lot, but generalizing that is a great conspiracy of installing Sharia all around Europe is exactly that, a conspiracy. Europe has been receiving migrants for decades and no new Caliphate has been proclamed yet. And its not really a religious problem at all. Its a demographic problem. Muslims have a high fertility rate while europeans don't
That's what happened in short. Very short. Just a little thing to add. Alfonso X not only translated just literature. He compiled encyclopedias about history and science too.
@@itcalledfootball600because apparently stealing when you are a Muslim is fine. lol Egypt and the Anatolian peninsula were never Islamic before roam came, you genius. the Anatolian peninsula was the native lands of Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians. and Egypt was true part of the Roman Empire and previously the Greek royal dynasty of Alexander The Great. but still, Egypt was never Islamic or Arab as it is today. and if you ask Christians in Egypt if they like the Muslim "Egyptians", they will definitely say no. Islam is a problem everywhere. not even the Hindus and Buddhists in East Asia like you.
I'm just saying it what every reasonable European watching this is thinking: We need a new reconquista. Besides politics, this is an amazing and educative video...
@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 Lol quite the opposite. All I want is my continent to be safe and equal but sadly muslims and Putin are a huge threat to all that we represent.
Exactly, The Moorish invasion of Iberia began in 711 AD, and the last Moorish kingdom in Iberia fell in 1492 AD. So, 781 years for the average person is pretty much as good as forever. The fact that Northern Christians were able to adapt, and take back their lands from the Muslims starting from 718: Battle of Covadonga to 1492: The Fall of Grenda is beyond impressive
Jewish leadership of Toledo collaborated with Tariq the Umayyad commander who sent scouts then led forces to slaughter, they were not expelled "for no reason" like they always claim, they were expelled because this was known for 700 years.
@@Tago-h1b no one besides your little chicken brain thought that he was speaking geographical stuff or that I understood he was speaking from a geographical point of view. What I think he meant is that Spain is invaded by africans and arabs COMING FROM the african continent. Now,is this making you feel better or worse?🤣
Fascinating. I lived in Spain for several years, visiting the Alhambra in the city of Granada, Seville & Alcazar Palace/Cathedral, Cordova, Gibraltar...etc. So much fascinating history.
It should be REMARKED that was said at 2:53 it is TOTALLY FALSE. There wasnt a Catalonian kingdom, just a bunch of minor counties. It wasnt until the marriage of the queen Petronilla of Aragon with Berenguer, Count of Barcelona (and posterior promotion to principality) that we will see the birth of the Crown of Aragon. With all due respect, i think you guys should have investigated more about the topic.
The county of barcelona was more powerful than the kingdom of aragon ruled by petronila a 13 year old. Berenguer married her to effectively take control of Aragon and get the jure recognition,however in reality the catalan counties had been defacto independant for quite a while (they even had their own separate laws that were kept functioning in the principality of catalonia as a successor to what was a group of counties until the 17th century, in an equal relationship to the kingdom of aragon and the kingdom of valencia as part of the crown of aragon). This is a nomenclature issue more than real power or geopolitical relevance. The principality of monaco is independent without being a kingdom in the same way the catalan counties including the barcelona one were. An entity doesnt necessarily need to be a kingdom for a piece of land to be considered its own state. Catalonia itself might be incorrect at that time (although however in the crown of aragon the catalan counties were known as the principality or catalonia) but in a map it is easier to write that than specify all the different small counties that definition would need to include. Spanish nationalists always try to disregard catalan history all based in a pedophile relationship between Ramon Berenguer and Petronila of aragon, a 13 year old, a good, strong historic claim!
@@octavicolom4562 Yeah. So as i said, the ´´Kingdom of Catalonia´´ didnt exist as the video says. However, i agree with you, Barcelona being the center of power of the Crown is the reason why catalan became the court language of Aragon and the only one to expand, and not aragonese. I didnt mention any of the actual separatist/independence movement because both catalans and spanish get triggered so easily.
@@franciscoamezcua6338 They should fight for independence, Spain is not an union it's Castile absorbing everyone else. Look at Galícia and Asturias their culture and native languages are dying.
Only one correction, Catalonia never was a kingdom, it was a county of the spanish march, a safety cushion between the muslims and the franks kingdom. The count of Catalonia although had a similar territory and force of some little European kingdoms of that times and a big level of authonomy after the fall of the carolingian kingdom. But as a count formally always depended of the kingdom of the north.
This video misrepresents history somewhat. It wasn’t always a Christian vs. Islam deal. Often there were Christians allied with Muslims against other Christians. Also, the kingdom of Catalonia never existed, and the kingdom of Galicia is missing from the period of Ordoño II in the tenth century.
Thus the story goes full circle. The jews were expelled upon completion of the Reconquista after both Latin and Arabic chroniclers recorded that is was the jews who "opened the gates of Toledo" to Tariq allowing the conquest in 711.
I always wonder, why do the English speak of the "infamous" Spanish Inquisition when, in fact, it was the least infamous. With historical records in hand, it was the least deadly in all of Europe. The truth is simple - there has always been a hatred towards Spain, and the Black Legend is there to tell the story.
This is so true. The Anglo world is purely lied to about anything Catholic, Spanish, Portuguese, etc purely because of the corrupted elite being protestant and hating truth and this is coming from an English man.
The fact that the English are hypocrites does not mean that Spain is exempt from it. The Inquisition did indeed happen and was disastrous for many Spaniards.
No, the Muslim Golden Age ended with the Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols. And the height of Al-Andalus ended with the fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba due to Muslim infighting. But definitely, the fall of Islamic dominion made life worse for the Jews, although Al-Andalus was already becoming gradually inhospitable to Jews too. Jewish history is one of continuous flight from persecution.
Covadonga is a pretty amazing piece of real estate. Pretty much in the middle or close enough within the Picos de Europa. We visited there just a couple of years ago. I read that the Muslims were coming back from an area in France and Pelagius became aware of this and also set a trap - knowingly, to take their plunder - and the trap and conquest of the returning Muslims with their own same idea of plundering worked, for Pelagius. Covadonga means cave of the spring, deep cave, or the more accepted cave of the lady, to which there is a small church within a cave within a mountain there. Beautiful to see. Have a café con leche with some cheese and bread on the top of the mountain and see the lakes there also. Even the Church leaders did not realize this battle was the "start" or first battle of the Reconquista until a couple of centuries later.
Sim foi a partir das Asturias que nasceram novos reinos com idiomas diferentes do Latim Árabe Ebráico Grego e algumas palavras das excolonias portuguêsa Ásia África América sul na lingua portuguêsa - por exemplo Bunda é palavras portuguêsa mas a sua origem é de Angola como existem mais palavras.
People are so quick to forget what happened to Europe and blame the Catholic Church and “bloodthirsty” kings for the Crusades when in fact the caliphates were the aggressors for a terminally long period.
Not at all true. Spains golden age was under the Muslim rulers because those rulers were Just. The moment the Spaniards were back in power, they decided that all Jews should either convert, run for their lives, or die.
La razón de que Isabel y Fernando no fueran tan tolerantes con el reino de Granada se debió a que unas décadas antes Constantinopla había caído bajo el Imperio Otomano y ahora un nuevo califa aspiraba a dominar todo el Mediterráneo y a extenderse por Europa, era y fue durante el siguiente siglo la mayor amenaza para los reyes de España, en ese contexto creyeron que no era seguro tener un reino musulmán en la península que pudiera servir de cabeza de playa y posterior base para una eventual invasión. Realmente muy poca gente celebra la fecha de la toma de Granada fuera de la propia Granada, la fecha quedó oculta para mucha gente porque el mismo año que concluyó la campaña militar Colón llegó a América por primera vez .
I was literally thinking about this today, how the Christians of Iberia managed to re conquer The Iberian Peninsula. Because realistically right. The Muslims had every single chance to eliminate the Christians of Iberia right off its borders, and yet they didn't. Which I always found kind of strange.
i think it's all about the battle of poitier. The muslims got defeated and lost their armie by trying to continue up north to frankia, and then didn't have the mean anymore to finish the job in spain.
On one side the mountainous north was difficult to navigate and hardly worth anything resource-wise. On the other hand, chances are Muslim rulers didn't break down on Christian or Jewish practices over the conquered land. Christians didn't either when they got former territories back, that is, until the Inquisition progrom was started first in Spain, and then in Portugal.
Not out of lack of trying, northen Iberia is rugged, cold and filled with mountains, valleys and forests, specially the Cantabrian region was vital as a safe haven against the moors.
@@alexisbelfer7881 Hmm, perhaps 12,000 muslim casualties/losses at Tours in 732; not sure how this would have a meaningful effect all the way up to 1492.
I can recommend you spanish books from Desperta Ferro. You have José Soto Chica for Visigoth Kingdom, or Fritz for Navas de Tolosa and the uses of Reconquista as a political idea. I recommend you Desperta Ferro Books, all in Spanish but you have a great variety of them.
This is the most underrated underdog comeback of feudal history and never got a movie done.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid_(film)
They will not make movies where they portray the fight against Islam as a positive thing. This is why they always show us how bad/evil the Crusades were.
Europe have had an 1300 years old battle with Islam. If not the Moors, then the Barbary, if not the Barbary, then the Ottomans, or Turkish. They killed/kidnapped/raped/enslaved millions of Europeans but Hollywood will never show us these things in films.
@@ojancano_bebedorNot precisely the best example. Yeah great hollywoodian movie with Charlton Heston but too many mistakes like all hollywoodian Historical movies.
Isn't that interesting. Such a major part of history. No movies....
@@neruba2173 they can’t make a movie because it will expose their evil of what they did
The Reconquista. One of the greatest and most deserved comebacks in human history.
Indeed. Spaniards/Portuguese avenged the Gothic Kingdom.
@@awsomeclipsnow for the sake of Christendom yes.
@@reddevilsunited_2060 Catholics, not Christians.
@@gururaven who also happen to be a branch of Christianity.
@@gururavenare you dumb? Catholics ARE christians
Random fun fact: by the later stages of reconquista, the christian kings started to REALLY get into chess and other board games like backgammon and after the fall of Granada, under the Catholic Monarchy, chess was reinvented to add the Queen as the most powerful piece, letting bishops move as far as they wanted, and started using the game for dating
Dating?
The queen and bishops are just rename for the original wazir(minister/general) and the elephant brigades (respectively) to honor both the queen and the monks in their efforts of ending the Iberian muslim kingdoms
interesting
chess must be the worst game for dating.
Everytime you play a woman you end throwing the game because otherwise she's gonna cry.
It’s believed that the queen only use to move as the king but, it was later changed because of Queen Isabel of Castila
Muslim Granada was valuable economically to the Iberian Christian kingdoms so they let it survive, until the Ottoman conquest of the Eastern Roman Empire tipped the power balance in the Mediterranean in favor of the Muslims. The Iberian Christians were afraid of losing their gains to the Muslims reinvigorated by the Ottomans, so they decided to remove the chance that Muslim Granada would become a toehold on the peninsula for the Ottomans. The 200 years of Granada's survival after the fall of Seville ended under this geopolitical circumstance, which caused the Iberian Christian monarchs to become "more religious" as the narrative says. The final conquest of Granada proved to be strategically necessary for the Iberian Christians since the Ottomans soon after became a big naval power and took over most of muslim North Africa, took Greek and Adriatic islands from the Venetians, Rhodes from the Knights, and laid siege to Malta at the doorsteps of Italy.
Well put.
To add, I believe Rhodes was taken from Knights Hospitaler.
Then European powers conquered the Americas and became gigachads of the world for centuries to come
I like how you put more religious in air quotes
Ottoman take over of north Africa came much after the fall of Granada and that the Naval piracy came from the Andalusis that were exiled in vengeance.
Amen.🙏.
What's more impressive than the reconquista itself is the formation of the maritime Iberian civilizations that followed shortly after the centuries of reconquests
We can see that they were dominating the Mediterranean even during the 1300 with the Italian states and the kingdom of Aragon. They even send an small force of 6000 Spanish almogavares to fight against the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia under the command of Roger de flor. They absolutely bamboolezed the Ottoman Turks in every battle while being outnembered by the Turks. But sadly they got betrayed by the byzantines. The Iberians would continue on in humiliating the Ottoman Turks in many other areas. Completely dominating the Turks in the Indian ocean and the Mediterranean including the Atlantic. Indeed the Ottoman Turks were so scared of the fierce of the Iberian warriors that they had nightmares for centuries about them coming to their lands and taking their daughters such as in la jornada de Túnez 1535 and the battle of Lepanto 1571.
Fancy way of saying colonization
@@LetnistonwandifOttomans however overpower Spain in every point of history. Spain couldn't even challenge Ottomans without a "Holy League" it took them another occasion at Lepanto to partially reverse the annihilations of Preveza and Djerba, prior to that Spain was getting humiliated by Barbarossa alone despite the support of various European nations like Portugal, Genoa & Venice, now when even an allied Spain didn't genuinely dominate the Ottomans in naval wars how could they do it one on one in full scale wars ?
@@nenenindonu The Portuguese did not help. It was only the only small Italian states and Spain that the formed the holy league in the Mediterranean. The ottomans had the pirate Berber states. Barbarrosa only won one battle against the Spanish and was humiliated afterwards in the conquest of Tunis.
These are the battles were the ottomans were humiliated by the Spanish
Spanish conquest of Oran 1732) (Humilliating defeat for thé ottomans)
Spanish conquest of Oran 1509
(Spanish Victory)
Battle of Alborán (Humilliating defeat for ottomans)
Battle of Cape Celidonia (extremely humilliating defeat of ottomans)
Battle of Cape Corvo (Another humilliating defeat for ottomans)
Battle of Girolata( Another victory of spain)
Great Siege of Malta( This one was with allies but the ottomans still had more soldiers and they got massacred)
Holy League 1535 (Another victory for Spain and his allies still the ottomans had allies too)
Capture of Mahdia 1550 (Humilliating defeat for ottomans)
Siege of Oran 1556 (Spanish victory)
Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir (Humilliating ottoman defeat)
Ottoman invasion of Otranto (Humilliating defeat for ottomans they surrended even if they were 18 000 compared to 2100 christian forces)
Ottoman-Habsburg wars( Spanish hasburg victorie tooking back Hungrary)
Siege of the Castle of Saint George (Spanish victory) Conquest of Tunis 1535 (Spanish victory)
Siege of Vienna 1529 (One of the most humilliating defeats of ottomans)
Siege of Castelnuovo (Even if this was an ottoman victory i wanted to show that even if the Spanish soldiers were outnembered 1 to 6 they still managed to kill more than half of the army this shows that mallority of the battles that ottoman won it was because they had so much more numerical advantage)
Conquest of Tunis 1574 (This battle its another example of what i was talking about outnembering and still getting fckd)
And battle of lepanto 1571 (another humilliating defeat for the ottomans by the Spaniards)
Sitio de Orán y Mazalquivir
1563(Thé most humilliating defeat for thé ottomans
1500 Spaniards vs 100 000 Ottomans and Jannisaries and It ended in an Décisive Spanish Victory. Almost thé entire Ottoman army slaughtered.
Toma de Mahdía (1550)
Siege of the Castle of Saint George(1500) Spanish victory
@@nenenindonu The ottomans never overpowered the Spanish. They got humiliated in almost every battle by them . Even Suleiman was scared of Charles V of Spain.
There are a few thing bad in this video.
-The "infamous" Spanish inquisition started in 1492, after the reconquista was finished. It's estimated there were 1000 executions (in the whole empire 31M pop, not just Spain) between 1530-1630 and 250 between 1630 and 1730. While in Germany (with less population 16M pop, and in a short period) executed 2500. All of this AFTER the reconquista
-Catalonia was not a Kingdom, they not were even united at all, they were a group of independent counties.
-Asturias was not an independent or different Kingdom, it's the succesor of the Visigoth Kingdom, the ones who exile from the rest of the peninsula seek shelter there
-The kingdom of Portugal appears from the Kingdom of Galicia (that later was annexed by Leon), not from Leon
-The Catholic Kings invaded Granada cause the new Emir refuse to keep the payments not just for "intolerance".
Great animations and good resume
It's very contested that Pelayo was even a Visigoth, so I find it hard to claim that Asturias was just the continuation of the Visigoth Kingdom. He was likely an Astur-roman caudillo.
The first holocaust
Kingdom of Asturias existed really. It was absorbed later by Kingdom of Leon but A Kingdom of Asturias there was.
true... This guy has made many mistakes but I don't think he did it on purpose.
@@asier_getxo Certenly
The Catholic Kings were the original MVPs
Yes.
agreed
MVP , what is that?
@@earthlingavian1132it stands for MOST VALUABLE PLAYERs
Debatable
To all my Spanish brothers, a big hug from Portugal. Sometimes i wonder what our Global Empire would have been if we were united as one since the Reconquista.
Indeed. We would be a first class world superpower. We wouldn't have lost our Empires to the USA or independentism.
@@alwoolridge6377 Sorry guys, but Americans still would’ve taken your influence and colonies. You’d definitely have more sway in Europe though.
@@2200Stinger Consider not only that we would've had our combined power, but also we wouldn't have made certain decisions and investments had we not feared and threatened each other. We would probably be technologically on par with them, so we would've had a fighting chance, at the very least.
@@alwoolridge6377 no chance whatsoever against us.
@@chrissweeten6096 Blas de Lezo didn't have any chance against the british in Cartagena de Indias, as well. But...
You crucially forgot about Republacion (repopulation). One of the reasons why the Reconquest lasted so long was that in the early part the Christians cleansed reconquered areas and repopulated them with their own people. This process takes generations.
So, the genocidal act was also involved too?
Interesting
@@SiPakRubah In all likelihood, yes. Genocide is frequent in history and should only surprise us amateur historians. But in all honesty it's impossible to tell how much repoblacion involved expelling versus killing. That's why I used the word "cleansing."
@@SiPakRubah yeah just like muslims left no one, the christians did the same
@SiPakRubah think of it as decolonisation, the Algerians did the same thing to the French back in the 60's.
Yeah. There are old (medieval) *churches* in Iberia with images and statuettes depicting various "positions" of sexual intercourse for the peasantry to learn from.
Back then they were dead serious with the repopulation effort.
I remember the time I'm discussing with my friend about current demographic crisis in East Asia (Japan & South Korea) and the world in general. He said that demographic decline is irreversible and Japan will lose like half of its current population by 2100.
I said to him, while that might be true, the general trend itself is NOT actually irreversible. There are instances, including in medieval Spain, which a society was able to reinvigorate their population growth thru concerted effort (not to mention we have the technology to actually breed humans with "science" now).
Something similar has been recorded elsewhere, including in China (the growth during Song Dynasty), India, and the Middle East. IIRC there is passage in the Bible about how the tribes of Israel repopulate Canaan (modern Israel, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan region).
i appreciate your intellectual honesty. often times when discussing the Reconquista, people have a tendency to gloss over the formation of Portugal, treating it as a side note
yep, in a time Spain didn't even exist, not for some centuries in that time.
@cerealpipe Thats the go to Portuguese argument, but even if you want reject the the fact that Espania dervrives from "Hispania" and the Visigoths refered to it as "Spania", Castilian is the official national language of Spain is it not?
Kingdom of Castile 11th Century 1065 AD
Kingdom of Portugal 12th Century
1139 AD
Either way, as a Spaniard of Galician heritage, today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation ( instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. ( Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them)
Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West.. *Reconquista II Intensifies*
DEUS VULT!
What is a "portugal"?
@@edstar83 Spain took the name from Hispania, not the other way around.
@@lillones something someone like you won't ever grasp, but your ancestors did 😉
Asturias is pronounced just like its written. Its Asturia-S. The S is not silent, as it is a Spanish name.
this sort of frustrated me too, sounded like he was just adapting the name Astoria haha
@@hydnars Same. Good video, but correct pronunciation warrants research.
@@Alex-mn1fb This is frequent in his videos, unfortunately. So grating and such a distraction.
in the 700's it was known as 'Asturia' without the s though
@@jcsfc2842 Was it tho? Any sources on that? Still, it would be more appropriate to use the pronunciation everyone is familiar with. Historians almost always use the nomenclature that is closer and more familiar to us in the modern era.
Glory to our Roman brothers of Hispania from a Roman brother of Romania. Be proud of your glory! Stay strong as Christians and Romans because this is our identity as Latin Europeans!🇷🇴❤🇪🇸🇵🇹
What a horror, my Allah!
Even north Africa and the Middle East can claim to be Roman, just because you are Christian its doesn't make you Roman! Africa and the Middle East were far more important than Hiberia or Dacia!
Amen 🙏❤️☝️✝️☦️
So you think genocide is glorious? Or only glorious when christians do it and to be condemned when muslim conquerers did it?
You think what putin does in Ukraine is glorious to? Because it looks similiar to what i just saw in this video.
PT does exist yet?
Just to add that 1415 marked the conquest of Ceuta harbour city in Africa.
The Portuguese new dynasty considered the possibility of trying to conquer Granada, but changed its mind because it would bring some problems with Castille.
This year marked the beginning of the Age of Discovery
If you're Catholic. Please pray for West African Catholics who are under the thumb of Islam like our brothers were in Spain and Portugal. Please pray.
Eu4 lore is so deep this is amazing
@@habibturay9930under islamic rule in the andaluce they had freedom of faith..the jews, christians and muslims thrived peacefully..cut the nonsense about islamic thumb
@@itubecollection1623 What freedom of faith. Please do your research. If christian really had freedom of faith than why did they flee north to kingdom of Asturias.
@@itubecollection1623 No, they were always second class citizens, even in the most "tolerant" muslim kingdoms. Not saying the christians were always tolerant, but the idea of tolerant muslims is just an idealisation repeated by fundamental muslims.
As a Coptic Christian from Egypt, I really hope that our country can be retaken like the Spanish did. I congratulate the Spanish for their remarkable reconquest of their rightful land
never let muslim colonizers rewrite history like they've tried for the Spanish.
Boys, we missed another one.
@@Zakariya3603 “Boys we missed another one!” Don’t let me come near you lil’ bro or thine cheeks will be clapped and oiled up 😹😹🙏🙏
Hhhhhhh😮😂😂😂😂😂
Surprised the mods left this comment up... they deleted mine when I drew comparisons of Israelis "colonising" lands around Israel and Arabs colonising land in Egypt.
Spanish empire took some kind of revenge for us greeks. Love spain from greece
Yes, Catholic and Orthodox retribution to Islam
Greeks were f...ed by.....
Bro,that’s not true imo.Spanish and the Catalan Company were committing atrocities in Greece(Eastern Roman Empire at that time),for over a century and were a big reason for the decline of the population and culture of Romans.
@@captainjacksparrow370 as Greeks what do you claim culturally and geographically yours ? Actual Greece and all the way to Constantinople ?
@@captainjacksparrow370 he meant that while anatolia was being conquered by muslims iberia was being liberated by christians
Catalonia was a region including several lordships and counties, not a kingdom. After the decay of the Frankish Carolingian rule in the Hispanic March, the County of Barcelona was the preeminent power in the region. The dynastic union resulting from the marriage of the Princess of Aragon and the Count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer IV, resulted into the Crown of Aragon. Later it included the kingdoms of Valencia and Majorca, as well as the italian kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia until 1714.
The Crown of Aragon included the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdo. Of Valencia, the Kingdom of Naples...and the County of Barcelona. Today's fanatic catalonian independentists will tell you otherwise, but it is just propaganda. They also say that all the important figures of history are catalonian too (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Cid, Americo Vespuccio...)
@@alwoolridge6377 in Catalonia no one claims all this bullshit you are saying, stop with your lies. The only ones that try to alter history are some fanatic Spanish ppl that even try to say that Catalan is not a language and other ridiculous things which clearly have been proven untrue
Viva España, Viva El Cid, Vivan los Reyes Católicos!
Y después Dios nos dió América como premio por defender la verdadera Fé.
what is a kingdom? Learn basics xd. Catalonia have been a Kingdom after the independence from aquitanie kingdom
@@joansuero9063 to be a kingdom you gotta have the title of king .
1117 was the first time someone talked about Catalonia and catalans ( or the oldest date we have proof )
We will have to do it again if this political nonsense continues.
There arent any muslim colonies in Europe
Unless you want to conquer and ethnically cleanse Albania and Bosnia
Indeed
Yes definitely needed to do soon again 😅
Stop voting for weak leaders
Lmao gonna take you another 700 years to succeed.
God bless Spain and Portugal for defending their land, and reconquering the Iberian peninsula 🇪🇸🇵🇹
Islam is the fastest growing religion in Spain and Portugal 😁
@@hinduismroaster and then we kick them again
@@hinduismroaster reconquista v2
@@hinduismroasterNot really
@@knighthospitaller634this time we kick you out & will make you cross ❎ ppl bow down to Islam ☪️ life or ☠️😁try this time
giving your people a common enemy is a crucial step in getting them unified
this time in the Trans people
What a horror, my Allah!
@@BoramK9294 ?
@@BoramK9294 May God punish them
@@emmettgamaliel ok guy
It took 700 years but the Spanairds and Portuguese finally reconquered the peninsula.
Too bad their descendents are handing it back over in the name of diversity.
@@ryeguy7941no, we bloody aren't. Where do you get that?
@@jpfg2713 Spain has well over 2 million Muslims, while 30 years ago it had a tenth of that at most, and Africans are constantly crossing over to Spain, to Ceuta, Canaries or Andalusia. I think he refers to that, if all the migrants actually stayed in Spain that would indeed be pretty bad and they would already be a majority in many places but most cross it to go to other parts of Europe.
Portugal does not have these problems because they do not directly border Morocco and migrants prefer to move to richer countries in Europe or stay in Spain. The thing is that this number only increases and they are usually having more kids than the locals, kids that often do not feel Spanish but of their parent's nationality and many of those practice Islam and even want to expand it, so Spain may have in the not so distant future a big social problem.
@@lluis9650 I am from Serbia, my nation suffered nearly 600 FUCKING YEARS under Ottoman rule so it saddens me that Europe's leaders today are willingly islamising Europe AGAIN. Take care
Everyone talks about the colonisation of Africa and the struggle for independence. But it was actually Portugal and Spain who had to first fight for independence from African oppression
So the Muslims invaded and colonized a native European land and then the Christian Europeans took back their lands.
No one ever talks about the slavery, colonialism, and genocide committed by Muslim hands. The near east was ethnically cleansed of Ionians, phonecoans, Pontiacs, and armenians but no one talks about that because it’s “racist” to criticize Muslim Arabs
Fr.
@@TS-lw5nv lol never happened
@@Usarofoboi14329 If Muslims don’t colonize their Iberian peninsula, then why do the Spanish celebrate reconquista as the expelling of the foreign Muslim regime?
We get it. Colonialism is only bad when white Christians do it. Genocide, persecution, imperialism, and colonialism is celebrated when every other culture does it.
We know what you did in the Americas. Helps us distinguish between old style conquest and colonialism
@@aryanks2167 Pretty racist to blame someone from an entirely different content for things that happened centuries ago by different peoples. Low IQ take mate, but that aligns with your videos.
I like how the Portuguese are fairly raid here, feels to me Potrugal’s legacy and influence isn’t accurately portrait nowadays
it is worth mentioning that the shadow cast by British colonialism has often overshadowed the contributions of both Spain and Portugal. The British Empire's historical narrative has been dominant, emphasizing their own achievements while downplaying the accomplishments of other nations. This biased rewriting of history has unfortunately diminished the recognition that Portugal and Spain rightfully deserve.
A great example would be the bias in Hollywood movies, particularly those about pirates and corsairs, often omits the significant contributions and roles played by Spain and Portugal during s.XVI-XVIII. Instead, the focus tends to be on English and French figures, perpetuating the notion that they were the primary players in maritime history.
It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.
@@EligioCazzaniga You ever heard of the Carthaginians?
@@SmokingLaddy the topic is the colonization and occupation by the arabs
@@EligioCazzaniga No. You were talking about Iberian Natives. They haven't controlled Iberia since before the Carthaginians who settled nearly 3000 years ago. I was just pointing out your comment is worthless.
Time to do it again!!!
Vamos Hermanos!!!
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1:20 The kingdom of Aquitaine foreshadows Occitania. Because feudalism, Aquitaine was divided in many principalities: the Frankish kings took advantage of this division to annex Occitanie (formerly: Aquitaine) piece by piece to their domain between 1213 (annexation of the county of Auvergne) and 1860 (annexation of the county of Nice). The core of present-day France is therefore the agglomeration of the kingdom of the Franks with the former kingdom of Aquitaine, and even Brittany, because Brittany also lost its independence in 1532.
There are a lot of things that are no well explained. The reconquista is usually romanticized, there were a lot of clashes between catholic kingdoms too, as they were between muslim caliphates. Also, Catalonia was never a kingdom, it was the county of Barcelona or the Catalan counties. But it's properly done that Castille and Aragon are not merged into Spain, that would be later, it's considered with Charles I. And until 1714 'Nova Planta Decrees', they had very different laws.
hard to cover 8 centuries of history in a 12 minute video and not leave out certain events
This is why I'm grateful for my Asturian ancestors. Their cause eventually led to the rise of the Spanish Empire, which resulted in their 16th century descendants arriving in the New World at the port of Veracruz in 1540, where, over the next century, travelled up the Rio Grande to Santa Fe, then south to El Paso, and gradually spread throughout what would eventually become West Texas.
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@@GreoGreoISIS
Asturias was Visigothic?
A tough brethren. Tell the Romans, it was till Augustus at great cost and savagery that they finally were able to conquer those lands in Hispania. The real “Asterix” must have been Astur or Cantabri but well you know the French 😜.
My mothers dna traces back to the basque/Asturias region
As a Iberian I'm proud of my ancestors did, D. PELAGIO is the warrior king 👑 of all Iberians, from Algarve to basque country, and Galiza to Catalunia and everything between
Are you forgetting where Pelagius was from and the cradle of the Reconquest? ASTURIAS.. the only region never conquered by the Moors.
Para mí , el reino de Asturias era asombroso , Galicia pertenecía al reino, ayudaba a luchar contra los vikingos y además se expandieron hacia el sur, el mejor rey de Asturias, además de Pelayo, Alfonso segundo
The reconquista was one of the most important events in history! Can you imagine a world without the Iberian people and the age of exploration?
Yes perhaps there would be some original culture remaining in the Caribbean and Central/South America instead of the populations being purged and their history and cultures wiped out as we see today.
@@SmokingLaddy Spanish colonisation was based on the “mestizos”, the mixed people from indigenous and Spanish people, which gave birth to the “Latinos” we call today. Unlike British colonisation who was based on extermination.
@@brunol-p_g8800I am Mexican and I don't get what tone you re trying to use? English have nothing to do with Mexico.
@@SmokingLaddy I am not talking about English having to do with Mexico, estoy hablando de la diferencia entre la colonización inglesa de sus territorios que reposaba sobre la exterminación de los indígenas y la colonización española que reposaba sobre el mestizo de las poblaciones .
@@brunol-p_g8800 Tlapopouilik nikchiua amo tlatlahto in itlahtol in hispantlahtoltlakatekolomeh, nitlatlahto in imelauatlahtol Mexiko.
Europe needs a Reconquista right now.
Exactly. Parts of Sweden, Belgium, France and UK already lost.
@@HistoryGeographic Nobody wants your kind.
@@HistoryGeographicNah he’s right
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Before it gets really out of hand
A most impressive breakdown of the Reconquista, thanks for the amazing contribution. Just a few notes from a spanish native speaker: The kingdom is called Asturias, and the city or Córdoba is pronounced 'COrdoba, rather than cor'DOba.
The centuries-long occupation was aimed at perpetrating genocide and ethnic replacement against the Iberian natives by the occupying Arab colonizers. The reconquest and subsequent inquisition finally brought justice to the natives and their lands raped by the imperialism of the occupying colonizing power.
It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.
Who cares
@@EligioCazzaniga Es difícil hablar de invasores y nativos cuando los Visigodos apenas habían terminado de conquistar la península (y aún les costaba mantener la integridad territorial).
@@antoniomari4126 The centuries-long occupation was aimed at perpetrating genocide and ethnic replacement against the Iberian natives by the occupying Arab colonizers. The reconquest and subsequent inquisition finally brought justice to the natives and their lands raped by the imperialism of the occupying colonizing power.
No shame of repulsing the invaders who treated us like shit!
VIVA LA RECONQUISTA IBERICA!
why did the holy spanish go on an invade latin america, treat it like BullSh1t, hypocritical spanish
@@youwhat491 because for survive the colonisation they had to became expansive xenophobic colonizers.
Muslims with their oppression created a monster.
Too because muslims refused to share spices with them.
Bruh
Yes.
@@aahil7586Viva Cristo Rey 🎉🎉🎉🎉
The Almohad collapse was a huge civil war that fractured the empired into many pieces some of which allied with Christian’s. They conquered warring jigsaw pieces not the entire puzzle
they weren't trying to conquer whole puzzle just the pieces that were taken n could unite the peninsula
The Almohads themselves invaded Andalucia and conquered the other Muslim states. Much of Andalucia's history is Spanish Muslims fighting or being conquered by radical North African Muslims.
@@EmisoraRadioPatio They werent any more radical then Christian Iberians, by todays standers almost everyone in the 12th century was radical, the correct term would be more puritanical. The almoravids were actually invited by andalusians knowing that they were ineffective in holding back the reconquista, the almohads were embraced for a while, things are never black and white. many andalusians despised them for their puritanical policies, a few admired what they saw to be saviours because their people were living too lavish and spoilt.
i agree , if almohads didn't collapse there is no way Castile would take all that huge territory
The previous hispanic cristian kingdom also collapse because a huge civil war that the muslim invaders take advantage on...
Thank God that happen! God bless Portugal and Spain 🙏❤️
Same for Constantinople thanks to allah
@@mateenundre1415ol Christianity went from being cornered to conquering an entire continent out of nowhere.
It’s almost like God meant Christianity and the Spanish people to spread after the crusade of Granada. If He’s picking favorites, it’s not Turkey because the Balkans went on to spit out their language and culture.
@@jpor7259 Christianity went from conquering an entire continent to being humiliated by sodomites in the modern day.
@@mateenundre1415 stupid muslim comment haha
Thanks to the Franks, actually
"infamous Spanish Inquisition". Not even 1 min into the video and there has to be a reference of the Spanish Black legend
Of course they do. They always do.
No one can expect from the Spanish Inquisitor!
You can always expect the Spanish inquisition 😂
The inquisition was just a way to rid Spain of Muslims that were secretly practicing Islam
they always talk about the inquisition but never ever mention the atrocities committed by Muslims.
Just for context, this wasn't only about a religious war. It took 8 centuries because most of the time cultures were well integrated and benefited from the islamic golden age in science and economy. Most of the times christians were fighting christians and muslims were fighting muslims. You can see that with the creation of Portugal that actually integrated the islamic golden age into it's own golden age after finally controlling the entire territory as we know it today. So it was a clash and mixing of cultures until the best of the best got out on top to take leadership in the world for the next centuries.
Islamic golden age was a myth. Islamic and Christian realms were virtually the same.
@MrMustang13 how do u know? Source maybe?
Amen.🙏.
There was no Islamic golden age. That is a myth you tell yourselves because admitting that you were just warlike peasant thugs from Arabia who conquered sedentary peoples who you enslaved to become your soldiers hurts your pride. There is no time in history or any current situation that isn't worse with Islam.
@@MrMustang13Do you even know how bad was the Medieval era in Europe, where the only people that can only learned to read is the authocratic family only, and also witch hunt is so rampant, and superstitious beliefs like black cats should be killed causing the bubonic plague in the first place?
Even the Muslims at least has libraries that was shared towards everyone, has hygienes far better than European, that even when an Arab traveler went there, they say the Vikings were lack of hygiene, while they're the most hygienic European at that time
I often talk to Africans of different origins, and they always incriminate the Europeans of being arrogant and avid invaders.
However, when I remind them of this part of the history, and the Carthage invasion as well, they suddenly get disoriented.
How would that make anyone disoriented. Claiming that others did it too doesn't absolve Europeans from anything
@@gregphillipsel9906. You didn’t understand his point. The problem with many Africans and other races is that they love just pointing the finger at Europeans for Conquests and colonialism when Africa invaded us first as well as the Mongolians and ottomans and when Spain and other European nations who for generations were trampled on by these other nations rose up and OBLITERATED their enemies and conquered most of the World then they want to call them
The bad guys and accuse only them of conquests.
@@gregphillipsel9906Its reality
Don't say European, better say English, Netherlanders, Belgian and French. But mostly English (and their heirs, the USA).
Making "European" culprit of British "deeds" is like making black Africans responsible of the conquest of Spania and Indonesian of the conquest of Constantinople 😂
That’s not even surprising lol
In maths 'X' is a placeholder for unknown. Because Spanish translators used it for the Arabic letter "ش/sheen"(for sh sound).
Which was used in Arabic in place of "Shai"(thing/entity)
As a Spanish I thank you for telling this significant crucial war in the history of Spain since it is not only the end of Muslim rule but it is linked to the beginning of what will be the expansion in America and the birth of the Spanish empire, also known as "the empire in which the sun never set" greetings from the Canary Islands, Spain, the place from which the ships of the empire departed for the "new world" 🇪🇸🇮🇨❤️🏴
Reconquista is the best thing ever happened in history.
Nope
@@Omarrah3214if allah wanted y’all to win why didn’t he intervene…
@@thedonkey6704 he gave us something better CONSTANTINOPLE
@@Omarrah3214 which is absolutely useless today. It’s not even turkeys capital now. He didn’t even want you to win after that. Considering Christianity absolutely destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Sorry bud. It’s true
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One imprecision: Catalunya was never a kingdom (minute 2:54), it was part of the Aragon crown.
Condados catalanes nunca un reino
I drove to many Spanish cities as well as Portugal and a ferry ride to Morocco over a 3 week period. I was amazed by the beauty of these places, the old structures, and the people. With 75% of my DNA originating from southern Spain, my imagination ran wild wondering who my distant relatives were and what their lives and history were like.
The Reconquista was essentially over after the 1212 Navas de Tolosa battle, took a little over 500 years to complete in reality. Then it lingered on for 2 and a half more centuries cause Castille and Leon allowed it to, since it was economically beneficial.
"Reconsquista" is concept from 19th and 20th century Spanish historiography that it's under great discussion nowadays. Most of the nowadays Medievalist reject the idea, as a 19th and 20th century nationalistic projection to a medieval past. The truth is that Iberian Middle Ages are much more complex than a unified Christian push towards the unification of the peninsula. And as a side note, Navarre should have much more importance in those maps, these are especially incorrect around the year 1000s. - From a Iberia medievalist.
one that actually knows
yup
Estes gajos sou loucos penam em União Ibérica,mas por alma de quem nem morto.Sou português falo o meu idioma era bonito os portugueses em vez de chamar Pai Mãe iam Chamar Padre e Madre - Padre é nas Igreijas Madre é nos comventos.Não esquecendo que o ódio com os castelhanos que os português há seculos. OLIVÊNÇÃO É TERRITÓRIO PORTUGUÊS CEUTA É TERRITÓRIO DE MARRCOS.A Espanha Castela devia ter vergonha.
The fact that here in Australia, I saw more moslems than I could count getting around just yesterday, when they'd been fought off from Christendom, is tragic. It's time for a similar approach here, now.
Try going to school again. Use your toes as well in the meantime.
@@ChrisShortyAllen Going to school, again? I'd love to got to school again, how our schools were 'til relatively recently. Both my former primary school and; even worse, my former high school, are now overwhelmed by "diversity" though. With Australian students being made the minority. And, what's this "toes" business, anyway?....
Kinda rich talking about a "reconquista" against "moslems" while you live in Australia, a country literally stolen from the native people.
Catalonia never existed as a kingdom or any kind of political entity. It was created later as a principality by the Crown of Aragon, without political comsequences.
County of Barcelona was more or less within the borders of catalonia
@@ksodz1397 No, Counties of Barcelona, Osona and Gerona were ruled by the count of Barcelona, but the others (Besalú, Cerdaña, Rosellón, Ampurias, Lérida, Tortosa, etc) used to have its own count before they were conquered or incorporated to Aragon. Catalonia was created later by the Crown of Aragon in order to join those heterogeneous territories into the territory of the realm of Aragon.
@@abelmedina8443are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure all other catalan counties were joined to the demesne of the count of Barcelona before his marriage with aragon.
The fact that they banned islam AND judaism is an act of heroism
Why Judaism?
Good video covering a very broad period of Iberian history. It's not easy to cover nearly a millennium of events in 12 minuets.
I am from India the truth is Portugal is a good country and spain is a good country.
How fantastic of them to push Islam out. Brilliant!
The Crusades were basically the counterattack, after the Reconquista, to ensure this never happened again.
How beautiful that Islam is returning with Converts accepting Monotheism instead of a religion that has opened itself away to Liberalism.
The "kingdom of catalonia" was never such, it was a principality. Sadly as of modern times, this is an important difference. The ruler of that area was a Baron, not a King.
Portugal foi o primeiro Reino a reconquistar os territórios até ao sul ( Algarve), e atualmente é o único país sobrevivente dos Reinos ibéricos medievais. Viva Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Portugal ainda existe? Vou comprá-lo da Inglaterra.
Que horror!
España es básicamente la unión del resto de reinos
Olá, sou brasileiro descendente de portugueses e amo Portugal também. Nosso pai. Embora tenham roubado riquezas naturais daqui, não odeio Portugal por isso já que isso era comum nessa época.
God bless Portugal 🙏
My least favorite comment on history videos are “wOooW wHy dIdnT i lEaRn tHis iN scHooL” interested in a topic then find out about it. Don’t expect your high school history teacher to go teach you every historical subject
Plus, it doesn't fit the narrative of "west bad"
@@ryeguy7941 who…who has that narrative? Also, can you admit that sometimes the west was indeed ‘bad’? Or must the west, unlike any other civilisation to have very existed, be viewed only through its positive deeds and never its negative ones? If there’s one civilisation that I can think of that is judged almost wholly for its evil it’s the Assyrians who are viewed as savages who invented one thousand and one ways to torture a man to death and not much else. The west, if anything, comes off much better than some of its parts deserve.
@mugikuyu9403 idk where you've been but the West has been viewed negatively over the past few decades and it's positives aren't even mentioned.
@@ryeguy7941 Because history books saying that all modern ideas come from the west is somehow saying "west bad?"
@doo2786 that's not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is when viewing civilizations through the moral lense, academia over the years has viewed Western civilization as this irredeemable evil that's responsible for all the ills in the world while ignoring the fact everyone else was doing exactly what the West was doing and ignoring the fact the West stopped doing it while everyone else continued or in some cases continues to do it. A perfect example is in the actual video. Everyone knows about the Spanish inquisition because it was this evil thing they did, and it'd constantly brought up, but ignoring the reconquista because that would portray the Spanish ie a European group ie Westerners ie White people as victims of non White aggression and that does not fit in with the progressive/woke/sjw narrative of the Westerners always being the aggressors and non whites the victims. You understand now?
It almost happenned to ottoman. Russian empire at the ninth russo-turkish war (19th century) already very closed to constantinople, but england as ottoman ally at that time stopped it.
Protestants at it again with the anti Christian acts.
And France as well. Multiple times in history they did that, just because they didn't want a strong Russia. It's disgusting, shameful, and a betrayal of Christians. We still haven't made up to the Eastern Romans (Greeks) for 1204.
Spanish Inquisition was the least violent in Europe .
For Christians ofc
@@itcalledfootball600cry
@@itcalledfootball600you bought into the anti-christian lie. The inquisition was lit
Prove it
Yes, because who wouldn't want to be in a comfy chair.
Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing things
Just 30 years later, Spain would become the greatest empire the world had ever seen.
When Spain is in danger like now the spirit of the Reconquista awakes again, so be ready...🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
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Hahahahahahaha yeah you'll do it
yes, down with the corruption !
You are a Yoke
I feel like you were going to talk about the batle of Ourique at 3:46 but forgot 😂
For clarification its the first major Christian victory against the Almoravids in the field and where King Afonso the first of Portugal gained the prestige and recognition to declare himself king
In são mamede he just took the county
As a brazilian, it's crazy to think i wouldn't exist if the the kingdom of Asturias hadn't resisted against the moors, because the age of navigations probably wouldn't exist and Brazil wouldn't be created. Thanks iberian christians for the reconquista.
And you think that euro colonization of the Americas was a good thing?
@@gregphillipsel9906 well, i wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them.
@@gregphillipsel9906 it was a good thing, sorry you know nothing about history.
1..the Aztec empire slave the majority indegen people and used to human sacrifice ..
...the Inca empire the same..
2..Britain exterminated the native people..and like slavery.
3..france the same...
4..Spain mixed with native people, and Christianity finished the slavery ..
You like doge ,he is kelld yuor grand father and grand mather
Europe now facing the re-reconquista
What do you mean?
Are you talking about the illegal migrants?
@@pepita2437 Probably, yes. But I wouldn't exaggerate and say they represent a holy war, just bad imigration policies on Europe's part
@@brunomoretti7594 This is because you don't understand Islam. :)
In big cities of UK, Sweden and other first world nations have a huge Muslim ninority.
In the areas they live in it's very dangerous for police to enter (and they rarely do), and those who live there are living according to the laws of Saria (kind off breaking a law of the countries they're in)
And these people are protected at all cost, and the countries don't do anything to help the original inhabitants. Like I have a ton of relatives in Germany and they pretty much live in fear. For ex, these immigrants raped a lots of women, and young boys, but when one of Germany's own politician tried to make thesee statistics public she was arrested.
You also kind of underestimate a lifetime of indoctrination. If they became a majority in a country they have an obligation to try to instate an Islamic state. (while if they're the minority they can live by the laws of the nation, because Quran allows this)
Also maybe you don't know, but Islam changed very little during the centuries. They still have the very violent laws (for ex public flogging, stoning, honor killing, slavery etc) and it was never reformed.
They're trying to take the key politoical/educational roles in Europe (Scotland last Prime minister was an Musulman, and he did wage a war on free speech because we're not allowd to criticize Islam, see Charlie Hebdo)
This will not end well for Europeans and to our culture. This is an extremely old fight between Europe and Islam (1300 years old to be precise)
Just that now they don't try to use military, but politics, rethorics, and Europe's tolerance laws.
The movie “Children of Men” is the prequel to the English reconquista of Europe.
@@pepita2437 Yes, as I stated before, poor immigration choices. Nothing more than that.
For it to be a holy war, there must be a Christian group fighting the muslim group, and Europe doesn't really care about religion anymore. And yeah, there are many violent immigrants, a lot, but generalizing that is a great conspiracy of installing Sharia all around Europe is exactly that, a conspiracy. Europe has been receiving migrants for decades and no new Caliphate has been proclamed yet.
And its not really a religious problem at all. Its a demographic problem. Muslims have a high fertility rate while europeans don't
That's what happened in short. Very short. Just a little thing to add. Alfonso X not only translated just literature. He compiled encyclopedias about history and science too.
WE KICKED EM BACK!!!! LETS GOOO!!!
We kicked you guys too from Anatolia and Egypt
@@itcalledfootball600 look at those places today. Hell holes. Enjoy😘
@@Josh.G.McN. at least they don’t steal other countries wealth to be rich
@@itcalledfootball600because apparently stealing when you are a Muslim is fine. lol
Egypt and the Anatolian peninsula were never Islamic before roam came, you genius.
the Anatolian peninsula was the native lands of Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians.
and Egypt was true part of the Roman Empire and previously the Greek royal dynasty of Alexander The Great.
but still, Egypt was never Islamic or Arab as it is today.
and if you ask Christians in Egypt if they like the Muslim "Egyptians", they will definitely say no.
Islam is a problem everywhere. not even the Hindus and Buddhists in East Asia like you.
@@itcalledfootball600enjoy your desert bro
I'm just saying it what every reasonable European watching this is thinking: We need a new reconquista. Besides politics, this is an amazing and educative video...
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Are you missing a war? Without reason? Go to Ukraine and defend freedom.
@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 Lol quite the opposite. All I want is my continent to be safe and equal but sadly muslims and Putin are a huge threat to all that we represent.
Any historian which calls the inquisition INFAMOUS, is totally not a serious historian....
Exactly, The Moorish invasion of Iberia began in 711 AD, and the last Moorish kingdom in Iberia fell in 1492 AD. So, 781 years for the average person is pretty much as good as forever. The fact that Northern Christians were able to adapt, and take back their lands from the Muslims starting from 718: Battle of Covadonga to 1492: The Fall of Grenda is beyond impressive
Forced Conversions are not good, yes
@@Islam_Enjoyertell that to the Muslims.
So kicking out all the Muslims and kicking out Jews and "heretical" Christians is not infamous?
This dude loves saying the word peninsula.
Prob an AI script
Never loose hope.
Even with nearly all the country occupied the Spanish managed to take it all back.
Yes
Not spanish, brother. Iberians. Portugal was there and we will never accept people taking that away from us ;)
Stay strong iberian brothers ✝💪
You're God damn right!!
AllahuAKBAR
Islam will win all over the world via spiritual way
All mankind were born Muslims 😎
Soon Spain will need a second reconquista
The world needs one
All of Europe does
Vai conquistar quem? Cuidado a Catalunha quer a Independência a seguir Galiza a seguir o País Basco que nada tem a ver com a lingua castelhana.
France, Uk Germany all need their own reconquista
Não Espanha mas sim Castela. Espanha não é uma Nação.É sim uma nação de Nações.Nação Catalunha Nação País Basco nação Galiza
Members of my family fought under King Sancho VII of Navarre at the BATALLA DE LAS NAVAS DE TOLOSA in 1212.
God bless them✝️
Heroes ✝️✝️✝️🇪🇸✝️✝️✝️
Nobody has records of their ancestors so old in Spain, nor that it was China. There's never a lack of attention-seeking liar.
WE MUSLIMS WILL CONQUER U AGAIN
@@hinduskigaandchodo336with what? Shitty ass rusty AK and women oppression culture?
Jewish leadership of Toledo collaborated with Tariq the Umayyad commander who sent scouts then led forces to slaughter, they were not expelled "for no reason" like they always claim, they were expelled because this was known for 700 years.
I ve been in holiday these days,in Benidorm. A black person there told me an I quote:
"Spain is Africa,they just don't know it yet".
we are indeed being invaded... with the approval of our actual government
Thank you for sharing such absurd geographical knowledge.
Next time you save it for your drunk friends.
@@Tago-h1b no one besides your little chicken brain thought that he was speaking geographical stuff or that I understood he was speaking from a geographical point of view. What I think he meant is that Spain is invaded by africans and arabs COMING FROM the african continent. Now,is this making you feel better or worse?🤣
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Fascinating. I lived in Spain for several years, visiting the Alhambra in the city of Granada, Seville & Alcazar Palace/Cathedral, Cordova, Gibraltar...etc. So much fascinating history.
It should be REMARKED that was said at 2:53 it is TOTALLY FALSE. There wasnt a Catalonian kingdom, just a bunch of minor counties. It wasnt until the marriage of the queen Petronilla of Aragon with Berenguer, Count of Barcelona (and posterior promotion to principality) that we will see the birth of the Crown of Aragon.
With all due respect, i think you guys should have investigated more about the topic.
The county of barcelona was more powerful than the kingdom of aragon ruled by petronila a 13 year old. Berenguer married her to effectively take control of Aragon and get the jure recognition,however in reality the catalan counties had been defacto independant for quite a while (they even had their own separate laws that were kept functioning in the principality of catalonia as a successor to what was a group of counties until the 17th century, in an equal relationship to the kingdom of aragon and the kingdom of valencia as part of the crown of aragon). This is a nomenclature issue more than real power or geopolitical relevance. The principality of monaco is independent without being a kingdom in the same way the catalan counties including the barcelona one were. An entity doesnt necessarily need to be a kingdom for a piece of land to be considered its own state. Catalonia itself might be incorrect at that time (although however in the crown of aragon the catalan counties were known as the principality or catalonia) but in a map it is easier to write that than specify all the different small counties that definition would need to include. Spanish nationalists always try to disregard catalan history all based in a pedophile relationship between Ramon Berenguer and Petronila of aragon, a 13 year old, a good, strong historic claim!
@@octavicolom4562 Yeah. So as i said, the ´´Kingdom of Catalonia´´ didnt exist as the video says.
However, i agree with you, Barcelona being the center of power of the Crown is the reason why catalan became the court language of Aragon and the only one to expand, and not aragonese.
I didnt mention any of the actual separatist/independence movement because both catalans and spanish get triggered so easily.
Most of History we are taught at school is totally false. The video gets more right than wrong. A very good video still cannot please everyone
@@octavicolom4562even if it was more powerful, it wasn’t a kingdom, no such title existed
@@franciscoamezcua6338 They should fight for independence, Spain is not an union it's Castile absorbing everyone else. Look at Galícia and Asturias their culture and native languages are dying.
Only one correction, Catalonia never was a kingdom, it was a county of the spanish march, a safety cushion between the muslims and the franks kingdom. The count of Catalonia although had a similar territory and force of some little European kingdoms of that times and a big level of authonomy after the fall of the carolingian kingdom. But as a count formally always depended of the kingdom of the north.
Spanish and Portuguese have honorary brotherhood in Ireland. Our bigger, older, tougher catholic brothers will always be welcome here
The Asturians are the real MVPs ☺️
This video misrepresents history somewhat. It wasn’t always a Christian vs. Islam deal. Often there were Christians allied with Muslims against other Christians. Also, the kingdom of Catalonia never existed, and the kingdom of Galicia is missing from the period of Ordoño II in the tenth century.
Seems the UK and Ireland are starting a reconquista.
Thus the story goes full circle. The jews were expelled upon completion of the Reconquista after both Latin and Arabic chroniclers recorded that is was the jews who "opened the gates of Toledo" to Tariq allowing the conquest in 711.
jews supported tariq because they were horrendusly treeted under the visigoths.
Always that chose people making trouble yet they always claim they are the victims
And in some cases the Jews literally fought alongside the Moors against the Christians
I always wonder, why do the English speak of the "infamous" Spanish Inquisition when, in fact, it was the least infamous. With historical records in hand, it was the least deadly in all of Europe. The truth is simple - there has always been a hatred towards Spain, and the Black Legend is there to tell the story.
Propaganda is not a new invention. XD
Probably because you came to conquer us and we fought you off, why wouldn't we remember that and it wouldn't be important to us?
This is so true. The Anglo world is purely lied to about anything Catholic, Spanish, Portuguese, etc purely because of the corrupted elite being protestant and hating truth and this is coming from an English man.
The fact that the English are hypocrites does not mean that Spain is exempt from it. The Inquisition did indeed happen and was disastrous for many Spaniards.
@@yeildo1492for Arabs *
While Spain was staging a remarkable comeback with Reconquista, India had started losing its freedom.
It is not only the end of Muslim golden age, but also the end of Jewish golden age in Spain
even better
No, the Muslim Golden Age ended with the Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols. And the height of Al-Andalus ended with the fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba due to Muslim infighting. But definitely, the fall of Islamic dominion made life worse for the Jews, although Al-Andalus was already becoming gradually inhospitable to Jews too. Jewish history is one of continuous flight from persecution.
@EmisoraRadioPatio persecution? Those bastards betrayed the Christians. They got what they fucking deserve.
That’s a good thing
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Very interesting history about Iberian kingdoms and how they took their lands back through time
Covadonga is a pretty amazing piece of real estate. Pretty much in the middle or close enough within the Picos de Europa. We visited there just a couple of years ago. I read that the Muslims were coming back from an area in France and Pelagius became aware of this and also set a trap - knowingly, to take their plunder - and the trap and conquest of the returning Muslims with their own same idea of plundering worked, for Pelagius. Covadonga means cave of the spring, deep cave, or the more accepted cave of the lady, to which there is a small church within a cave within a mountain there. Beautiful to see. Have a café con leche with some cheese and bread on the top of the mountain and see the lakes there also. Even the Church leaders did not realize this battle was the "start" or first battle of the Reconquista until a couple of centuries later.
Proud of being Asturiano.
Puxa Asturias and long live our father King Pelayo
Sim foi a partir das Asturias que nasceram novos reinos com idiomas diferentes do Latim Árabe Ebráico Grego e algumas palavras das excolonias portuguêsa Ásia África América sul na lingua portuguêsa - por exemplo Bunda é palavras portuguêsa mas a sua origem é de Angola como existem mais palavras.
People are so quick to forget what happened to Europe and blame the Catholic Church and “bloodthirsty” kings for the Crusades when in fact the caliphates were the aggressors for a terminally long period.
Brilliant summary. Pity it mentions a "Kingdom of Catalonia" which never existed, but anyway.
Cordoba and Granada are such beautiful cities, you can feel the history. Al Hambra and the Cordoba Mosque are a must to see when you travel to Spain.
The inquisition is understandable, especially when you realize that they've been fighting Jihad for 800 years...
Not at all true.
Spains golden age was under the Muslim rulers because those rulers were Just.
The moment the Spaniards were back in power, they decided that all Jews should either convert, run for their lives, or die.
La razón de que Isabel y Fernando no fueran tan tolerantes con el reino de Granada se debió a que unas décadas antes Constantinopla había caído bajo el Imperio Otomano y ahora un nuevo califa aspiraba a dominar todo el Mediterráneo y a extenderse por Europa, era y fue durante el siguiente siglo la mayor amenaza para los reyes de España, en ese contexto creyeron que no era seguro tener un reino musulmán en la península que pudiera servir de cabeza de playa y posterior base para una eventual invasión.
Realmente muy poca gente celebra la fecha de la toma de Granada fuera de la propia Granada, la fecha quedó oculta para mucha gente porque el mismo año que concluyó la campaña militar Colón llegó a América por primera vez .
Viva a reconquista cristã! one of the most important historical periods that is being left in the background so as not to increase tensions in europe.
Nobody:
Isabella and Ferdinand: "Remember. No Muslim."
Classic Spaniard W
PROUD TO BE CHRISTIAN ❤✝️☦️
What a horror, my Allah!
@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Allah wills it
@@CarlJancorda Fake news.
@@CarlJancorda I know Allah and He doesn't will it. I talked with Him today.
@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Allah wills it
AWESOME VIDEO 👍
Deus vault love to Spain for doing what needed to be done
I was literally thinking about this today, how the Christians of Iberia managed to re conquer The Iberian Peninsula. Because realistically right. The Muslims had every single chance to eliminate the Christians of Iberia right off its borders, and yet they didn't. Which I always found kind of strange.
i think it's all about the battle of poitier. The muslims got defeated and lost their armie by trying to continue up north to frankia, and then didn't have the mean anymore to finish the job in spain.
On one side the mountainous north was difficult to navigate and hardly worth anything resource-wise. On the other hand, chances are Muslim rulers didn't break down on Christian or Jewish practices over the conquered land. Christians didn't either when they got former territories back, that is, until the Inquisition progrom was started first in Spain, and then in Portugal.
Not out of lack of trying, northen Iberia is rugged, cold and filled with mountains, valleys and forests, specially the Cantabrian region was vital as a safe haven against the moors.
Because they got destroyed several time from Christian armies and that traumatized them like the battle of Toulouse.
@@alexisbelfer7881 Hmm, perhaps 12,000 muslim casualties/losses at Tours in 732; not sure how this would have a meaningful effect all the way up to 1492.
Great video, thanks from Spain 👍🏻
Is there a book someone could recommend about the Reconquista? I've been looking for one without much luck
I can recommend you spanish books from Desperta Ferro. You have José Soto Chica for Visigoth Kingdom, or Fritz for Navas de Tolosa and the uses of Reconquista as a political idea.
I recommend you Desperta Ferro Books, all in Spanish but you have a great variety of them.
@@sarenartanis1752 Thank you!
Long live Spain 🇪🇸 and Portugal 🇵🇹
Long live Morocco 🇲🇦
Viva cristo rey
The production quality of this ancient history documentary is outstanding. I felt like I was part of the ancient world.