@limonesycafe8898 Yes, they forbade cannibals on the other side of the world from eating their fellow humans and tearing them to pieces alive, which is why the descendants of these cannibals will always have a grudge against them.
@limonesycafe8898 No, cannibalism wasn't praticed in Europe. We just killed the moors in the Battle and let them under the sun for the vultures. I have to say that moors didn't like too eat us. The hundreds of millions of mexicans, Guatemala s, salvadoreños, bolivians, peruans etc look like indians, have voices of indians and act like indians, so regardless of what you say they are indians. You' ve won a cent fort the most absurd comment.
@limonesycafe8898mMy replay was deleted, I think the anger of the cannibal's descendants is way more bigger than I thought before. Eating chickens, porkies and fish it's not so bad, believe me.
@limonesycafe8898 I'm rational. If you have iberian ancestors I'm afraid they were more clever and better than you. Your others ancestors were living in the paleolitic and eating or being eaten by their neighbours. Don't be ashamed and respect your, very probably, few iberian ancestors. They were on top of civilization back then and the women that left behind, in my humble opinión, far more pretty.
Well, I guess people tend to talk about recent events instead of old stuff? In this modern era, I'm not surprised America is the talk of the town, being the largest military and economic power in the world....the Muslim world meanwhile is not as powerful as they once were in the old days. North African countries are not as significant in the geopolitical stage anymore. Though interesting, Arab imperialism was a thing of the past and unlikely to happen again in the near future.
@@bradf1001 So tell me, which Arabic version of the quran do you use and why that one? Or do you not even know that there are some 40 different versions of the Arabic quran we know of? Of course all these qurans were written by unknown authors. And how do you deal with all the mistakes, discrepancies, inconsistencies and contradictions in that quran as well as the approval of evil such as raping women who have been captures in battle (surah 33:50) which is adultery and wife beating (surah 4:34) as well as child marriage (surah 65:4) which means that Mohammed and his allah approved of raping little prepubescent girls. And we see that Mohammed led by example when he married a 6 year old child and then raped that child when it was just 9 years old. Clearly Mohammed disqualified himself as a prophet of GOD by the evil he perpetrated. And remember all of islam is only based what Mohammed maybe recited and how he lived. So tell me, why do you even believe that you will be with GOD our Father in heaven on judgement day when you follow Mohammed? And do show the quran verses on which you base your belief.
It's the Spaniards that made Filipinos feel like 3rd class citizens. I'm a brown-skinned Sephardic Jew and proud of my heritage and skin color. Spaniards tried to eliminate us, but we're STILL HERE!!!
Iberia was one of the best regions in Europe and the world during Muslim rule, and it flourished in every aspect from science to art. Even the Alhambra Mosque in Granada is one of the most, if not the most visited historical site in Spain and guess who built it, that's right, the Muslims. Get on your knees.
@@apataye our lady will crush Islams head or Islam will crush us. Like the serpents head in prophecies in genesis, That the women crushes. Jesus will win. What Christian’s and do for now is pray to Jesus for mercy and pray for mass conversions of Muslims, while having many children to counterbalance the demographics. Also don’t be submissive, actively know what muslim nations have done to Christian’s and don’t be quiet about it.
@@um_internacionalista sure, a very simple google search will provide you tons of results on that. But you can start by this one from Maduro: "Venezuela wants, along with a group of Latin American countries, to make a deep claim for Spain to pay reparations for the theft, looting of our lands, slavery, and suffering that our indigenous and African grandparents endured," he stated during his program 'Con Maduro+', as reported by Europa Press. I cannot paste links in YT comments without it being deleted.
@@um_internacionalista sure, a simple google search will lead you to the one from Maduro from Venezuela for example. Yt keeps deleting my replies so i cant send links etc.
A lot of muslims think that Spain is part of a greater Muslim territory, they have a vision of a united muslim empire that includes Spain and Portugal. Never let down your defences.
@@TheFatController.Muslims are crazy. Iberians are related to indo-europeans and have nothing to do with them Muslims are usually from some other continent and Spaniards are Europeans . I wish those Muslims would leave us alone.
@@hinchadelmasgrandedemexicoThere was a ISIS map of countries they wnated to take over and it included Iberian penisula. Maybe he's refrencing that idk
I am a Spanish Women From Asturias! thank you for making this video and explaining our centuries of struggle to retake our Land and keep our identity alive 🙏 every month me and among many other pilgrims travel to the Sanctuary of Covadonga the resting place of the Great Hero Pelagius of Asturias and pray for his brave soul And our ancestors which never gave up on retaking what's rightfully theirs against foreign invading barbarian such as Munuza and Almanzor. God bless our Spanish and Portuguese brothers and sisters that died fighting from their freedom 🧡💚🙏✝️
Ignorance. I dont know where to begin! Catholic Spain brutilized thousands and thousands of God fearing people who wouldnt bow down to the Papacy of Rome. They didnt preach bible truths of light but practiced roman superstitions...thats why it was called the "Dark Ages". People, you need to read history and not believe the tales of a religion that deemed knowing how to make chamomile tea for health ,witchcraft. Ridiculous to be proud of something you know nothing about. And the Spanish Inquisition was called the SECOND Inquisition. Rome has been killing people for Rome for hundreds of years! It had absolutely nothing to do with Christs teachings.
And I am a daughter of sephardic spanish heritage. Who grew up thinking I was a mexican americans daughter. Just to find out there are over 100million "mexicans" who are actually the offspring of spanish jews and moors who fled for their lives to central america. We in america have been told a false history. It is our responsibility to seek our true heritage.❤
Spain got to stop with his Reconquista , the Muslim advance into Europe . And by the time of queen Isabel of Castille there was a muslim plan to join these two strategical points , Spain in the West of Europe and Constantinople in the Esat of Europe to take over the whole continent of Europe under Muslim rule . That´s why the Spanish kings ,Isabel and Fernando decided to push forward to complete the Reconquista by taking over de muslim Emirate of Granada , because of the real danger that the Turkish Empire could make a big army to join his religious brothers in Granada and so take over Europe , making a clamp between these two points . Thank Spain all this was stopped and Christianity saved.
You forget the struggles of the Balkans for push against Islam while entire Central Europe: Holy Roman Empire, Frankish empire and others just sat on their asses and watched as Byzantine empire, Serbian empire, Bulgaria and Romania fell one after another and it took struggle of my people in 19th century to mostly drive muslims out of Europe. But the Turks left an egg in Balkans: bosniaks (who are Islamised Serbs and Croats for the most part). And don’t forget Albania. And yet even today the whole Europe supports these muslims instead of their Christian brethren.
It's not Spain that stopped them it's France. France had 2 rulers and they were stopped by the first they met that was actually the weakest (Battle of Tours). The franns were outnumbered and had lesser armors but still won using specific tactics.
@@JaouiTomo-dp3tqlets get real, if its occupied for hundreds of years, it becomes theirs too. At least unless they leave for many many generations, wich means they cant claim anything in Spain now. But by the times of the Cordoba Caliphate, that was both christian and muslim territory. By the time Granada fell, only Andalusia could be considered muslim territory... and so on.
I’m pretty sure Greece got mopped by the Ottomans and were ruled for 100s of years. It was only during World War I one that the Ottomans fell nice try though.
@@rabbaniazzahra1784 Byzantine - Arab wars. Long long before any Austria came into existence. And then (Siege of Vienna), credit goes to the Poles. Read about it.
I can trace my ancestry to 1640 in the Kingdom of Navarre. My ancestor was appointed by the king of Spain to be governor of Granada in what is now Nicaragua. I lived in Rota, Spain as a young child when my father was in the US Navy and was stationed there. Fascinating history!
@@ufuk.adamı Conquest yes, like every other society in history. I wouldn’t call it genocide. Most of the deaths were caused by European diseases. They just wanted the silver, gold and land (and to save their souls from hell). They don’t call the Bubonic Plague 1300’s Europe genocide.
@@ufuk.adamı As if your Turkey didnt do the same when the Ottoman empire tried to conquer Europe ... At least Spain treated the conquered territories as part of Spain and did intermarriage, unlike the british who treated their territories as colonies and did ethnic cleansing ... Why ex british colonies are all white and in Spanish ex territories there is a mix of colours? .... And when Ottoman empire conquered lands until Austria, they were conquering lands with flowers and roses, right? Your ancestros participated in balkan people genocide ???
@@ERISLagriega NO TIENES NI IDEA. ISABEL I LA CATÓLICA FUÉ DETERMINANTE PARA CONSIDERAR A LOS NATIVOS INDIOS COMO SUJETOS DE EVANGELIZACIÓN Y POR TANTO NUEVOS CRISTIANOS CON TODO LO QUE IMPLICABA. LA MEJOR REINA
Proud to have ancestors who belongs to these to two great nations. They have struggle for many century against islamic occupation and the colonization by the middle-easterners, and finaly they achieve their national liberation.
'Convert or die' is not an accurate phrase you know Islam prohibited to force people to change their religion unwillingly and other religions co-existed in that period... actually unlike what happen when Christian kingdoms take over, actually the majority of people living under the Muslim rule maybe weren't Muslims for centuries it was a gradual change of belief.
@limonesycafe8898Recuerda que además de guerra religiosa era una guerra racial, defender la raza Blanca, hoy en día con las nuevas modas impuestas está mal decirlo , pero es la verdad.
I use Reconquista as a self motivation when my life is becoming hard. Christian Kingdoms of Iberia Peninsula managed to win because they didn't give up, even when everything seems to be lost. Good job, Iberians! 👍 👏👏👏 👌
I would use the word “Iberians” because people in what became Portugal participated. “Iberians” can refer to a pre-Roman tribe or to all inhabitants of the peninsula.
I thought the same thing! I even replayed the moment because it seemed so big to me! Typical Anglosaxon propaganda (negrolegendarios claro) that's right.
How many protestants did the Catholic monarchs kill? I guess that was all 'anglo' propaganda too. The Catholics killed their own people just because they did not believe in their pagan religion. Catholicism is roman paganism. It is the Whore of Babylon of Revelation 17 and the Popes are antichrist, the man of sin. They replaced the bible with Popes and councils.
The video is good, but it has several errors, such as that only the kings of Castile, Navarre and Aragon attended Las Navas de Tolosa, but not Portugal; furthermore, El Cid Campeador was Castilian, not Aragonese, and the maps show that the county of Barcelona continued long after it had already been incorporated into the Crown of Aragon.
Actually, while King Afonso II of Portugal refused the calling from Alfonso VIII due their conflicts, significant Portuguese crusaders participated at Navas de Tolosa es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_las_Navas_de_Tolosa
Navas de Tolosa was a crusade requested by Pope Innocent III. Thanks to the status of crusade the different Christian kingdoms were forced to go to this battle. Between the different Christian kingdoms there were wars and different interests, that is why before the Navas of Tolosa there was never a union between Christians. This battle was also attended by knights from Europe: French, Occitan and Templars.
It also states, Seville and Cadiz had been conquered by Castille before Portugal had conquered its full territory when it was not true. Actually Portugal carried on its reconquista to East of Algarve but then offered the Sevillian lands in exchange of no longer having to run the war on the Muslims, leaving it to be finished by the Castillians.
Spain have saved the West many times, on the seas and on the land… they have brought True Faith of our Lord and Saviour Jesus to the new World and Evangelised Americas, parts of Asia and Africa, long live Espańa we love you
The Astures were the last Spanish to be conquered by Romans. A legio was established in León to control Astures rebellions. At the end Astures served in the Román Army mainly in cavalry. In spite of the small size of Asturia, the Astures Alae and Cohorts were the Most numerous in the Román Army. They served from the Hadrian Wall to North África and from Germany to Dacia. The Astures never were conquered by Suevii, Visigoths or Muslims.
Legio IX Hispana ("9th Hispanian Legion"),[1] also written as Legio VIIII Hispana,[2] was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that existed from the 1st century BC until at least AD 120. The legion fought in various provinces of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. The nickname "Hispana" was gained when it was stationed in Hispania under Augustus. It was stationed in Britain following the Roman invasion in AD 43. The legion disappears from surviving Roman records after c. AD 120 and there is no extant account of what happened to it.[4]
@@xispaster Nothing to do with Asturias. The I Alae Asturum, The II Alae Asturum and the II Cohort Asturum were in the Hadrian Wall till the fall of the Román Empire.
@@MrClassicfever La península ibérica está llena de cadenas montañosas y ningún pueblo opuso tanta resistencia al invasor como el pueblo Astur. La cadena montañosa solo defiende el flanco sur.
I appreciate the history video, but please, stop spreading the black legend. The spanish inquisition was very moderate by the standards of the time. It was far more moderate than the inquisitions that took place in other european countries. And spanish catholics were less brutal with heretics than muslims were with infidels (and that was after they endured centuries of brutal oppression at the hands of muslims). The idea that the spanish inquisition was exceptionally cruel or brutal is a myth that was created and promoted by the protestant enemies of Spain, and it remains popular to this day.
You are correct, While the spanish inquisition seems horrible by today's standards, It wasn't at all extreme for the time, The idea that it was this really cruel and unusual thing is mostly a narrative to make the catholic christians look bad.
There's actually people that think that the inquisition caused "millions of people" to die from torture and murder, but the numbers barely go into a couple thousand. While the Spanish Inquisition wasn't a good thing, it does really pales in comparison of what the Muslims did in what used to be a thoroughly Christian area around the whole rim of the Mediterranean.
Why does everyone view spain as a reconquest. But the crusades were not a failed reconquest? The middle east was also previously majority Orthodox and Coptic Christian
Desde España, Reconquista completamente Épica, nuestros antepasados se lo curraron mucho. Pero ahora nos traen invasores a Europa por la caradura en el Plan KALERGI contra Europa de sustitución racial descarado.
Desde España, nuestros antepasados lucharon durante 8 siglos expulsando moros y africanos sin contemplaciones, ahora dirían que eran xenófobos y lindezas así pero ellos no estaban para tonterías de " tolerancia e integración ".
Desde España ,nuestros antepasados lucharon 8 siglos para expulsar moros y africanos sin contemplaciones ( ahora dicen esas tonterías de Tolerancia,multirracial, multiculturalismo para hacer Ingeniería Social---de las Logias).
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was born in Burgos, he was a vasal of the Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Alfomso VI), not Aragon, until he fall in disgrace being forced to exile he served under different Taifas like Zaragoza. In his second exile was when he conquered Valencia until his death.
I know a Barcelonian. Now, I understand Spain better. I loved the Catalonians connection in Patrick O'Brian's novel series. Great history brought to life
Yeah, current Arab colonizers in Europe are quick to whine about 19/20th century European colonialism in their land to justify their current colonization of Western Europe as a "payback", but they forget they colonized Spain for 700 years...
It is interesting how we hear all the time how horrible the Catholic Monarchs were to Jews and Muslims when the Almohad Caliphate was just as bad to Jews and Christians. It makes me wonder if there is a bit of an anti-Catholic bias amongst historians sometimes. At least the producer of this video had the courage to bring this up which shows the Muslims were not always as tolerant of other religions in Spain as commonly taught.
Hahaha Jews were persecuted by Spanish and came to hide in the Arab world . Jews during the moorish Spain and Christian’s alike lived their best lives!
John Quincy Adams summarized it nicely: "The precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective."
This video is very inaccurate in the East side, Lleida + Tortosa were taken by Ramón Berenguer before 1150 but in the video shows like It was after 1250
I wouldn't say that they lost the motivation to keep fighting since they went directly to north africa during the 15th and 16th centuries (at least Portugal went) to fight there and conquer territories.
The Spanish lost and the arabs went North but were quickly defeated by the franks (French) at the battle of Tours even tho it was not the biggest Army of France, were outnumbered and had less armor than the arabs. Still won using specific tactics.
Quite a lot of mistakes. El Cid fought besides Muslims and Castillians against Aragonese king (not for him), who was actually killed in the battle of Fraga by this combined force. Then, he was a mercenary for many years for the Muslim king of Saraqusta (Zaragoza). County of Barcelona never had the extension depicted in the map, it was just the more powerful of a bunch of counties created by Charlemagne, covering also the Pirenees to Navarre, including the County of Aragon. You have left Aragon included in the Kingdom of Navarre to the XII century and then remembered that it was an independent kingdom from a century earlier, just to mention a few mistakes, we could continue, but let's be good.
The map says "Kingdom of Aragon". Barcelona was never part of the kingdom of Aragon (When they joined, Aragon was about to disappear), was part of the Crown of Aragon, as later were Majorca and Valencia. Please stop confusing both. Aragon Crown is not the same as Aragon Kingdom. (As the British Crown is not the same as the English Kindom)
España nunca tuvo colonias, tuvo virreinatos, eran otras provincias españolas. Los indígenas tenian los mismos derechos que el resto de los españoles, la reina Isabel la Católica incluso impulsó el mestizaje, lo dejó escrito en su testamento, todos eran sus súbditos. Hubo abusos porque los conquistadores eran hombres, no ángeles. Se unieron muchas tribus americanas a los españoles para hacer la conquista de otras tribus opresoras, porque los admiraban. Hubo 300 años de paz en toda la hispanidad. Se crearon muchas ciudades y pueblos con carreteras, escuelas, universidades, hospitales gratuitos para todos, acueductos, iglesias, catedrales, etc. Hay muchos lugares que son patrimonio de la humanidad, lo que no p uede decirse de los imperios colonizadores europeos. Se prohibieron los sacrificios humanos y el canibalismo gracias a la religión católica, se escribieron las primeras gramaticas de lenguas indígenas, etc. El legado de España en América es maravilloso!!! 😊
So what can you say how Spaniards oppressed us in the south east Asia, Philippines, killed people and burned our homes and villages if we dont pay taxes? Yup yup. We were colonized. Read a book. Stop fooling yourself. Wake up. Spain was an oppressor for 333 years!
“Caliphs and Kings” by Roger Collins is a good history book to read on the early Reconquista. It also counters the very slanted portrayal books like “The Ornament of the World” propagated of the tolerance of this period.
Nice rec, ty. I really don't believe in tolerance history re-writing based on modern principles. People were not tolerant at all (with exceptions required in real politiks of their times) before decades of science and reason. People aren't even tolerant at all in many places in this day and age, even with centuries of questioning of what I consider human made up myths taken over by local monolithic corporations and indoctrination that followed. I don't believe in any human religion, it's all bs to me, but I can understand people raised into that and raised to hate what isn't the one they were raised in, completely buying into it. I'd be killed pretty quickly and gruesome a few centuries back with my mindset or today in some places. I'll never say "there's no god" because I have no proof to substantiate that. I feel the only valid response to these questions is "I don't know, and you don't know either because you've offered zero evidence". I find the "believe" thing to be lacking, it just means you either believe with no proof or you've surrendered to pressure. I'm just glad we can at least discuss it at this point in time, in plenty of places.
Just a correction: the whole of Aragon depicted was not a kingdom actually. It was a crown, the Crown of Aragon, i.e. a federation of kingdoms: the kingdom of Aragon, the County and late Principality of Barcelona, the Kingdom of Valencia, the Kingdom of Mallorca, and outside the Iberian Peninsula, the Kingdoms of Sardinia, Sicily and Naples. Not to mention other minor territories too bordering the Mediterranean. The final border of Aragon is not exactly like in the video, since part of the province of Alicante is incorrectly depicted as land of Castile. All in all, great video. Thank you! 👏
… and the birth of the Kingdom of Portugal 🇵🇹 in 1143AD that expelled the "Muslim Moors" from Portugal in 1249AD, more than two Centuries before the Kingdom of Castille and Aragon 🇪🇸 expelled the Nasrids (Arab Dinasty) from the Emirate of Granada that they ruled from 1232AD to 1492AD.
@ Did you missed History Classes!? Portuguese established the first Global Empire in the World before anyone else! 🇯🇵🇨🇳🇲🇴🇲🇾🇹🇱🇱🇰🇮🇳🇪🇹🇲🇿🇦🇴🇸🇹🇬🇳🇬🇼🇧🇯🇳🇬🇬🇭🇨🇻🇵🇹🇧🇷
@ Obviously… among other Christian Kingdoms (León, Aragon, Navarre, etc) that ended up unifying into Spain (The Country)! It’s not a competition between Iberians but this title "The Reconquista: The Victory of Christianity and the Unification of Spain" seems to leave aside not only the independence of Portugal as its importance in that so called Christian victory! That by the way didn’t ended with the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula! Portuguese kept on fighting the "Muslim Moors" in North Africa leading to the conquest of Ceuta in 1415. Not to talk about the Portuguese - Ottoman conflicts in the 1500's for the control of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea that most definitely kept Ottomans, Mamluks, Adal Sultanate, etc busy and not so focused in trying to conquer European territories! Saludos! 🫡🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸
@@brixcosmo We can hardly call a series of fortified trading posts on the route between Lisbon and India "Global Empire", extending it if you want to the commercial legation of Nagasaki. From there to the Atlantic coasts of Brazil, crossing the entire Pacific Ocean, there are 21,000 km, half the circumference of the earth. The first great transoceanic empire, yes, but there have only been two global empires, the Hispanic Monarchy between 1580-1640, and the British Empire of the 19th-20th century.
Just one little correction. The union of Castile and Aragon didn't lead to the Kingdom of Spain but to the Spanish Monarchy, or to the Spanish Crown (both remained independent to eachother). Castille paid Christopher Columbus expedition, so America, were Castillas only Territory, under the Catholic Spanish Monarchy, not Aragon (which had territory in the Mediterranean sea, such as Napoli) This is the reason Why in Latin America people speak Spanish castellano, and not Catalan.
Algún día algunos entenderéis que una identidad cultural e histórica, como la española, no necesita unificación gubernamental de ningún tipo para existir.
This proves two things. 1. That a modern reconquista is not only necessary but possible to achieve. 2. That the second stability is achieved, rich land owners will immediately go right back to rescending any improvements/advancements in social well being and mobility of the working class.
They conquered and colonized north Africa, the Levant, central Asia, Asia minor, the Iberian peninsula, the balkans, parts of eastern Europe, parts of india and yet they have the nerve to lash at European colonialism. muslims, you were a colonial power 1000s years before Europeans became one so cut the crap
Interesting story from the atheist China point of view. the spain reconquista seems to be the only sample where Muslim withdraw, it will not surprise anyone if the process was extraordinari brutal.
0:20 The Basques were not under Asturian influence or against the Arabs at that time, it was the Cantabrians who did revol along the Asturians. Don Pelayo was a descendant of Pedro de Cantabria, the oldest ancestor of the Hispanic monarchy.
@@ignaciomoreno9655Wikipedia its not my source of information, I studied this matter wille coursing my degree on history so here are some books you might like to read: "De 'Cantabria' y 'Asturia' al surgimiento de (las) 'Asturias' (ss. VIII-IX). and La gestación de la reconquista en el área cántabra" and "Pelayo: Liébana, un reino", wach your thone. What I said about the Basques not being under Asturian rule is an approved fact, regarding Pedro of Cantabria he´s traced as the first ancestor and origin of the Spanish monarchy (It was Philip V who promoted this idea)
@ignaciomoreno9655 bosques entered actual "basque country " in the late-fall if Roman empire (look for: Vasconización tardía). And it was much further east than the Asturian region, well past cantabrian regions.
My dear, please don't mess the basques in the early resistance against the muslims. I am ASTURIAN, we are proud to be this origin, nothing against the basque individuals, but they did not participate. They are separated from Asturias about 100 km, in between the Santander province, since antique epoques considered a part of Old Castilla. Besides in Asturias we proudly state that Spain is Asturias, the orher territories just land reconquered from the muslims, whilst the basque authorities are playing with the idea of separate from Spain. No coincidence in the background and no coincidence in the vision of the nation.
Great video! Seems quite unbiased narration too which is a breath of fresh air. :). :). May I suggest to keep the timeline on? Sometimes it's hard to keep track of the period.
The flag used in the video for both Alfonso l de Aragón and the Kingdom of Aragon is wrong, as that was the flag of the dinasty of Barcelona and the two dinasties had not yet joined at the time.
Wrong. The flag that appears is well used, it is that of Aragon, granted by Pope Alexander II to the king of Aragon Sancho Ramírez in 1068. The gules in a golden field can only be worn by royal lineages, something that does not occur in the counts of Barcelona, who began to use them after their union with the House of Aragon in 1137.
@@Tago-h1b The red and yellow stripes are a symbol of the "Casal de Barcelona" as the tomb of Ermessenda de Carcassona shows. She died in 1058 which is before the supposed events you mention. By the way, the banner of Sancho Ramírez, who became king in 1063, is a white cross with a blue background.
@@ignasifortgrandas5267 Totally fake. The sarcophagus of Ermessenda of Carcassone was moved in 1385 and the decoration is from that time. The flag that appears it is that of Aragon, granted by Pope Alexander II to the king of Aragon Sancho Ramírez in 1068.
@@Tago-h1b The sepulchre was indeed moved and still retains its Romansque style, with the pigments of the stripes chemically dating around the year 1100, not 1385.
@@ignasifortgrandas5267It has already been archaeologically proven that the paintings were made in 1385 on the occasion of the later embellishment of the sarcophagus, read the report on this by Alberto Montaner Frutos.
I do not believe that Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon were fanatics. In fact, at first the three religions coexisted, something that would not happen anywhere in Europe, but the need to maintain a unification of destiny led to the expulsion of the Muslims and the Jews, although they could also integrate, they are the so-called "conversos." Few conquistadors would have done that.
One concept that stood out to me throughout the vast scope of this conflict was the idea that later in the Castile Kingdom the tribute to the emperor was one chicken and three loaves of bread from each free family. It amounted to a flat tax that everyone paid. And there was an incentive for the government to incentivize more land ownership distributed amongst the people. This also incentivized the distribution of wealth and its discouraged having oligarchs who hoarded wealth. It's something that we could learn from in government today.
was a timely boost to the Spanish kings who had suffered a heavy defeat at the Battle of Alarcos in 1195 CE. The Christians in Spain were suffering from a lack of unity, too. King Alfonso IX of Léon (r. 1188-1230 CE) had made an alliance with the Muslims, but his strategy brought excommunication from Pope Celestine III (r. 1191-1198 CE), and the even more unusual step of granting any Christian who fought the king a remission of sins. Consequently, Christians were now fighting fellow Christians. There was, in fact, a long tradition of alliances between Muslim and Christian statelets in Spain, trade and economics often superseding differences in religion, Pekunia Non Olet my Friends
Spain did it. He conquered the cities of Oran in Algeria (1509), Tripoli in Libya (1510) and Tunisia (1535), but he was only able to hold Oran until 1792. The northern part of Morocco was a Spanish protectorate between 1912 and 1956, and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa have been Spanish since the 16th century.
@Tago-h1b seems like dangerous Muslim backwater 2nd world countries. Not like a comfortable safe first world country like Spain. Islam is very restrictive and I would definitely not want to live in or be subject to a Muslim nation.
8:34 The person who proclaimed himself emperor of all Spain (Imperator totius Hispanie), was his son Afonso VI and later his grandson. Taking into account that at that time the term Hespanha referred to the region equivalent to the Iberian Peninsula and not to a kingdom.
You're wrong. King Alfonso III of Asturias initiated the spanish imperial idea in the 9th century, in 867 he was confirmed as "Adefonsus totius Hispaniae imperator", referring to the Visigothic Kingdom.
@@roddeazevedo In the documents of that time they speak of the "Restoration" (in the 19th century it will be renamed as "Reconquista") of the Visigoth kingdom of Hispania. Spain is nothing more than the translation of the Latin word into the Romance language. Hispania = Spain. Geographically, the Peninsula begins to be known as the Iberian Peninsula to differentiate it from the political term Hispania. Since the Catholic Monarchs, the Spanish kings have been titled "Kings of the Spains" or "of Spain" interchangeably. Charles I of Spain already signs the Treaty of Madrid of 1523 as "King of the Spains". Thus, the idea of the Spanish nation was born during the Reconquista and materialized with the Catholic Monarchs in 1479.
@@roddeazevedoDocuments from the 16th century, both in Spain and in other countries, refer to "Spain", "the Spanish", "the Spanish Empire", "the viceroyalty of New Spain", etc. Everything you can say against it is only in your mind, it has nothing to do with reality.
@@roddeazevedo The Catholic Monarchs refer to themselves in their correspondence as kings of "Spain" and "of the Spains." The first official document in which the country is named this way is that of the Treaty of Madrid of 1523 by Charles I of Spain. All these documents can be consulted electronically and for free in the PARES portal of the Spanish national archive.
It wasn't the unification of Spain but the reunification of Spain. Spain had already been united with a sole Hispanic identity, culture and sense of nation back with the Visigothic monarchs and even further back with Roman Hispania.
Not really true my friend.... while they were technically under the same ruler, regions of Spain retained their own identity. Nationalism was never a thing at the time, and the people felt more loyal to a certain smaller region than their monarch. In fact, you wouldn't have called it one country at all. First, they all speak different languages in different areas such as Catalan, Arragonese, Galician...etc. Spanish (back then known as Castillian Spanish), the official language today, was never formally established until around the 13th century. To show you they never thought of themselves as one country, you can see in the video that though certain parts of modern-day Spain broke away from Muslim rule, they didn't "reunite" and instead tried to establish dominance over their other Christian rivals. It's this autonomous kind of thinking that leads to the current situation in Spain. I'm not sure if you know this, but Spain has been struggling with the Catalan independence movement for a while now. This just shows that what I'm saying is correct: that certain Spanish regions maintain their own subculture and identity (though not to the degree of back in the medival ages I guess).
@beefylilun178 Completely wrong, there are written manuscripts from back in the day where people would call different regional languages as "Spanish from (name of the region)," e.g., "Español de Aragón" for Aragonese and so on. The different Christian kingdoms referred to the laws of the Visigoths as a basis for rights, arguments, and traditions. Even back during Roman times they would joke that for Hispanics "Vivere bibere est" (living is drinking) playing on the fact that Hispanics wouldn't distinguish the sounds of V and B just like we do now and the fact that they were known for partying as we are today. The Spanish identity was born in Hispania and took full form during Visigothic Spain. Also, it's called the Spanish Reconquering because Spain had to retake Spain back and following the same logic, it was a reunification.
@@AFVEH you say I am "completely wrong", yet the political situation of Spain currently says otherwise. You said nothing to address it because you have only little details to justify your narrative but no concrete and valid proof. Little details of having the same "parties" and pronouncing words similarly are nowhere near enough to justify them having the same culture. It's like saying the Japanese and Chinese are the same folk because they both use chopsticks and write with symbols. It's like saying Mexico and Colombia are the same country because both countries use Spanish and pronounce the "R" the same. Very wrong to do this. Your so called "regional languages" all have some connection to Latin, but they were NEVER formally referred to collectively as Spanish until 13th century. There were no such things as "Spainyards" until the near end of the Reconquista, when they began to have some form of identity. Among professors and researchers: "The consensus is that nationalism as a concept was firmly established by the 19th century.[48][49][50] In histories of nationalism, the French Revolution (1789) is seen as an important starting point, not only for its impact on French nationalism but even more for its impact on Germans and Italians and on European intellectuals." Unfortunately, the French Revolution is way after this period so....nationalism barely existed during their time => no kind of "Spanish country".
@@AFVEH and if you must know why we call it "Reconquista" nowadays, it is because modern historians refer to it, NOT because the people at the time refer to it. Modern historians by this point have already established Spain as a nation and thus refer to it as such. For proof: "The term "Reconquista" was first used in the 19th century to describe the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. " What does it mean? It means people at the time did NOT refer to it as Reconquista, only modern people. Taken direct from a source. Notice how it didn't say "Christian reconquest of Spain"? it said "Iberian Peninsula". There is a difference.
@@beefylilun178 I see you know nothing of the political situation we are having, nor where it comes from. Catalonian separatism is fairly new and modern. In the 19th century this idea of an independent Catalonia didn't even exist yet in any meaningful capacity. Basque separatism is also fairly new. They have historically been the most patriotic of all Spaniards, like Blas de Lezo, for example. The current situation is driven by modern economic and pseudo-ethnic reasons. Again, I have read manuscripts where the different languages in the Iberian Peninsula were referred to as Spanish of (name of the region). I remember even reading one where at one point it said "pues no le entendí ya que hablaba su Español" (I didn't understand him for he spoke his Spanish) referring to a merchant that spoke Catalan. In fact, during the days of the Reconquering, the different Christian Kingdoms were referred to as "Las Españas" (the Spains). Whenever succession was questioned between different nobles, Visigothic laws were used to settle arguments. This showed continuity. The Christian Kingdoms of the peninsula were a continuation of Visigothic Spain, and hence, once these united again, it was a reunification of this country that had been broken up by the moors. The active idea of a nation doesn't have to exist for there to be able to look back and see that people did infact have a national feeling. It's like saying that gravity didn't exist until Newton came along and wrote about it. Are you going to claim the Greeks of antiquity didn't have a sense of being Greek regardless of the polis they were from? They didn't have a sense of Greek nationalism just because the term hadn't yet been defined? That's a ridiculous stance. Furthermore, the Cantar de Mio Cid, written around the year 1200, mentions Spain "España" more than once. Even Columbus writes about Spain as a whole, and Spain hadn't yet been fully reunited. And like I said, the Spanish culture and identity started to be defined in Roman Hispania and was established with Visigothic Spain. It was infact a reunification, to say otherwise is to know nothing of our history nor of our roots and what defines us.
Catholicism is roman paganism. It is the Whore of Babylon of Revelation 17 and the Popes are antichrist, the man of sin. They replaced the bible with Popes and councils.
Spain??? Or Spain and Portugal??? And for your knowledge there where no Spain at this time but several kingdoms like Portugal, Castille, Catalonya, etc...
Reconquista is to reconquer what was already there before. And what was there before was a single Christian Kingdom in Hispania with its capital in Toledo. So the reconquista is the RECONQUEST or RESTORATION OF HISPANIA, when neither Portugal, nor Catalonia, nor Castile existed yet and everyone in Iberia was HISPANIC.
@@micupedro Yes so its not the unification of "spain" but of the Hispaniae Peninsula or as named today the Iberian Peninsula. and even this title would be incorrect since the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula did not result in any unification but rather in the creation of several kingdoms
Larga vida a España. La patria que en el campo de batalla ganó al Islam, al comunismo y defendimos Europa y occidente. Nos enfrentamos al mundo entero y ganamos durante 3 siglos! Cuando nos volvamos a unir volveremos a la cabeza del mundo ✝️❤🇪🇸
España no existía cuando los cristianos y los musulmanes se disputaban la península. Y la Monarquía Hispánica fue primera potencia durante apenas un siglo por la circunstancia especial de empezar a colonizar América antes que el resto de potencias europeas. No lo fue por potencial propio y jamás lo volverá a ser.
Hay algunos que la grandeza de España les impide dormir. Menosprecian aquello que hubiesen querido ser y que nunca seran. La gloria se enamoró de España. 🇪🇦🇯🇪✝️🌍🦅⚔️
Spain was Unique in Europe, having a much more diversified population: Christians, Jews, and Muslim, living together pretty pleasantly. Spain also had the most just Feudal system to the continent. Spain blew it. Spain would've been the most powerful of Europe, and not "just" militarily, which was the Spanish weakness in the upcoming centuries after it's discoveries of the Americas.
I appreciate the effort done in the video to explain foreigners the longest battle in history to complete the Iberian Peninsula Reconquista (783 years), but the maps and territory limits and some battles did not happen that way. The Kingdom of Navarre is constantly changing borders and limits, almost as much as the Stock Market. There's no mention to the Cantons formed in the Spanish March ruled by Warlords. Skirmishes by boat are depicted several times like "battles", hundreds of kilometers away from the frontlines, where the winner, either Christian or Muslim then "repents" and abandons the city "conquered". Like Pamplona, Barcelona, Lisbon and so on. It has no sense... Continuous comments about Spain or Portugal in X, XI, XII centuries, when they didn't exist at that time. Only Leon, Castille, Aragon, Navarre and Coimbra. But then again, the border limits displayed don't help and start to feel like someone is explaining a film. Portugal finished their side earlier than Spain (unlike what you've displayed on the map) reaching the Algarve in the 1260's, well said, but you don't mention the year of the biggest battle that changed it all. Navas de Tolosa, in 1212, where the Christian forces were able to flank the Muslim defenses keeping the battle frontline even and static for many years and, as a result, getting the first upperhand in the Reconquista for the Christians. Then, when the Reconquista finally ended (1297 for Portugal and 1492 for the new-born Spain), both countries hugged Christiany as a way to identify themselves and their culture, indeed kicking other religions. Converted ex-Muslims were called Moriscos (up to this day), but coverted ex-Jews are called Sefardíes, not Marranos as you say. In fact that definition is an insult. Marrano has 2 meanings: First Pig or Hog but the second meaning is "filthy" (up to this day). In fact, Sefardi Jews still have a rough old Spanish spoken language to this day, talked by thousands. To summarize, in my opinion, both countries have to put some effort to make their history known outside their borders and avoid reliying completely in third parties as they have done up this day. Foreigners tag this 2 countries, and Southern Europe in general, as noisy people. They often confuse noisy with us telling or showing off our merits, and they are 2 very different things. Knowledge about Spain or Portugal requires intention to get deep and learn their culture. Things do not come naturally or are sponsored everywhere like some cultures. It requires effort but it pays off... People get in love with both countries once they get to know them. If you're a foreigner and you have not taken that path, chances are you're just talking about stereotypes or assuming things or behaviours you don't know about...
How do you discover a place where people already have been living in for 15 thousand years?! It was an autocratic colonialism that led to hundreds of years of Genocide, slavery and theft in the name of christ.
Yes, it is incredible how from a small stronghold in the mountains of Northern Spain a country stood up and was reconquered fighting against an empire that extended from France to India. The incredible thing is not the time it took, the incredible thing is that they achieved it.
@@Tago-h1bmaybe I missundertood what you said but the arabs were not in France. When they leaked from Spain they got instantly defeated by one of the two frank armies at the battle of Tours. What did you mean by that ?
A big hug from Portugal to Spain.
We had our fights but we are family.
Now u are muslim republics because your women want better men 😂😂
@Rzeznik48makes no sense
@Rzeznik48you mean your women want Spanish Latin men 😉
@Rzeznik48 "better", delulu
@Rzeznik48 Eso te excluye a ti
God bless Spain and Portugal
@limonesycafe8898 Yes, they forbade cannibals on the other side of the world from eating their fellow humans and tearing them to pieces alive, which is why the descendants of these cannibals will always have a grudge against them.
@limonesycafe8898 No, cannibalism wasn't praticed in Europe. We just killed the moors in the Battle and let them under the sun for the vultures. I have to say that moors didn't like too eat us. The hundreds of millions of mexicans, Guatemala s, salvadoreños, bolivians, peruans etc look like indians, have voices of indians and act like indians, so regardless of what you say they are indians. You' ve won a cent fort the most absurd comment.
@limonesycafe8898mMy replay was deleted, I think the anger of the cannibal's descendants is way more bigger than I thought before. Eating chickens, porkies and fish it's not so bad, believe me.
@limonesycafe8898 may be not.
@limonesycafe8898 I'm rational. If you have iberian ancestors I'm afraid they were more clever and better than you. Your others ancestors were living in the paleolitic and eating or being eaten by their neighbours. Don't be ashamed and respect your, very probably, few iberian ancestors. They were on top of civilization back then and the women that left behind, in my humble opinión, far more pretty.
As a Catholic this period of history makes me proud ✝️❤️
La historia del reino de Asturias , es heroica, lucharon contra al Andalus , contra vikingos , y siempre ganaron o por lo menos no perdieron
everyone always talks about American imperialism, no one ever talks about Arab imperialism
We are talking about it right now.
@@jonncockrell3606no one ever talks about Roman imperialism 😞
Whataboutism
Well, I guess people tend to talk about recent events instead of old stuff? In this modern era, I'm not surprised America is the talk of the town, being the largest military and economic power in the world....the Muslim world meanwhile is not as powerful as they once were in the old days. North African countries are not as significant in the geopolitical stage anymore. Though interesting, Arab imperialism was a thing of the past and unlikely to happen again in the near future.
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Godbless christian world and the country of Spain love from Philippines 🇵🇭
53millionpeso a year your church takes out of your country
@bradf1001 long live the catholic world 🌍 🌎 🌏
¡¡Di que sí!!
@@bradf1001 So tell me, which Arabic version of the quran do you use and why that one? Or do you not even know that there are some 40 different versions of the Arabic quran we know of? Of course all these qurans were written by unknown authors. And how do you deal with all the mistakes, discrepancies, inconsistencies and contradictions in that quran as well as the approval of evil such as raping women who have been captures in battle (surah 33:50) which is adultery and wife beating (surah 4:34) as well as child marriage (surah 65:4) which means that Mohammed and his allah approved of raping little prepubescent girls. And we see that Mohammed led by example when he married a 6 year old child and then raped that child when it was just 9 years old. Clearly Mohammed disqualified himself as a prophet of GOD by the evil he perpetrated. And remember all of islam is only based what Mohammed maybe recited and how he lived.
So tell me, why do you even believe that you will be with GOD our Father in heaven on judgement day when you follow Mohammed? And do show the quran verses on which you base your belief.
It's the Spaniards that made Filipinos feel like 3rd class citizens. I'm a brown-skinned Sephardic Jew and proud of my heritage and skin color. Spaniards tried to eliminate us, but we're STILL HERE!!!
The longest war in history. From pelayo to the catholic monarchs. So happy iberia was reclaimed
We will return, I promise.
@@jordanxo3154🤣🤣🤣
Results of it was not really good. They force converted people then force deported muslima and jews.
Iberia was one of the best regions in Europe and the world during Muslim rule, and it flourished in every aspect from science to art. Even the Alhambra Mosque in Granada is one of the most, if not the most visited historical site in Spain and guess who built it, that's right, the Muslims. Get on your knees.
@@jordanxo3154
Why would you want too? Europe ain't doing so well
This is the story of Christianity vs Islam right here Islam will win major victories but in the end it will be Christianity who triumphs.
Deus vult
Yes, but we must not bend to Islam. Keep our spirit!!! ❤
yes lost when muslims were weakened in iberia region for years 😂😂
I wish you were right, but, nowadays, I´m honestly starting to doubt the outcome.
@@apataye our lady will crush Islams head or Islam will crush us. Like the serpents head in prophecies in genesis, That the women crushes. Jesus will win.
What Christian’s and do for now is pray to Jesus for mercy and pray for mass conversions of Muslims, while having many children to counterbalance the demographics. Also don’t be submissive, actively know what muslim nations have done to Christian’s and don’t be quiet about it.
The arab world should pay reparations to spain
so Spain would need to pay reparations to its former colonies
@ they are requesting it seriously, thats why spain should apply the same to the arabs
@@Gaspardini could you provide a link to some news about a government doing that?
@@um_internacionalista sure, a very simple google search will provide you tons of results on that. But you can start by this one from Maduro:
"Venezuela wants, along with a group of Latin American countries, to make a deep claim for Spain to pay reparations for the theft, looting of our lands, slavery, and suffering that our indigenous and African grandparents endured," he stated during his program 'Con Maduro+', as reported by Europa Press.
I cannot paste links in YT comments without it being deleted.
@@um_internacionalista sure, a simple google search will lead you to the one from Maduro from Venezuela for example. Yt keeps deleting my replies so i cant send links etc.
A lot of muslims think that Spain is part of a greater Muslim territory, they have a vision of a united muslim empire that includes Spain and Portugal. Never let down your defences.
Are they delusional or something. Spain doesn't grow Arabian Aladdin eyes and thick lips like they do and tons of wirey bushy coarse hair.
Hello my friend, can you please tell me more about that? As a Mexican I'm curious to know, please 🙂 do you have an anecdote to share?
@@TheFatController.Muslims are crazy. Iberians are related to indo-europeans and have nothing to do with them Muslims are usually from some other continent and Spaniards are Europeans . I wish those Muslims would leave us alone.
@@hinchadelmasgrandedemexicoThere was a ISIS map of countries they wnated to take over and it included Iberian penisula. Maybe he's refrencing that idk
I am a Spanish Women From Asturias! thank you for making this video and explaining our centuries of struggle to retake our Land and keep our identity alive 🙏 every month me and among many other pilgrims travel to the Sanctuary of Covadonga the resting place of the Great Hero Pelagius of Asturias and pray for his brave soul And our ancestors which never gave up on retaking what's rightfully theirs against foreign invading barbarian such as Munuza and Almanzor. God bless our Spanish and Portuguese brothers and sisters that died fighting from their freedom 🧡💚🙏✝️
That's apparently where my last name came from. From Asturias. Are there any Arango or Londono there?
As a son of Mexican immigrants I say thank God for the Catholic monarchs 🙏🏼✝️
Viva México!! And its music. The violin and guitar were introduced by the Spanish. This is the result - th-cam.com/video/iZohtK7BnXM/w-d-xo.html 😊😁
Sorry for you case
As a fellow child of Mexican parents I agree. Christ is king, god bless catholic Spain.
Ignorance. I dont know where to begin! Catholic Spain brutilized thousands and thousands of God fearing people who wouldnt bow down to the Papacy of Rome. They didnt preach bible truths of light but practiced roman superstitions...thats why it was called the "Dark Ages". People, you need to read history and not believe the tales of a religion that deemed knowing how to make chamomile tea for health ,witchcraft. Ridiculous to be proud of something you know nothing about. And the Spanish Inquisition was called the SECOND Inquisition. Rome has been killing people for Rome for hundreds of years! It had absolutely nothing to do with Christs teachings.
And I am a daughter of sephardic spanish heritage. Who grew up thinking I was a mexican americans daughter. Just to find out there are over 100million "mexicans" who are actually the offspring of spanish jews and moors who fled for their lives to central america. We in america have been told a false history. It is our responsibility to seek our true heritage.❤
Spain got to stop with his Reconquista , the Muslim advance into Europe . And by the time of queen Isabel of Castille there was a muslim plan to join these two strategical points , Spain in the West of Europe and Constantinople in the Esat of Europe to take over the whole continent of Europe under Muslim rule . That´s why the Spanish kings ,Isabel and Fernando decided to push forward to complete the Reconquista by taking over de muslim Emirate of Granada , because of the real danger that the Turkish Empire could make a big army to join his religious brothers in Granada and so take over Europe , making a clamp between these two points . Thank Spain all this was stopped and Christianity saved.
You forget the struggles of the Balkans for push against Islam while entire Central Europe: Holy Roman Empire, Frankish empire and others just sat on their asses and watched as Byzantine empire, Serbian empire, Bulgaria and Romania fell one after another and it took struggle of my people in 19th century to mostly drive muslims out of Europe. But the Turks left an egg in Balkans: bosniaks (who are Islamised Serbs and Croats for the most part). And don’t forget Albania. And yet even today the whole Europe supports these muslims instead of their Christian brethren.
I once read that when the Saracens ruled they protected holy sites in the middle east from Christian and Hebrews who often fought over those places.
It's not Spain that stopped them it's France. France had 2 rulers and they were stopped by the first they met that was actually the weakest (Battle of Tours).
The franns were outnumbered and had lesser armors but still won using specific tactics.
@@serbdriverAUjust an information for you fellow human being you and i and everyone else we are so mixed up there's is no pure race on this planet
did anyone learn? now not only is Spain going to have to do it all over again but the UK and France and others as well.
The people who rule the UK and France side with the intruders, i doubt the native Spanish rulers did.
And Germany too, the Turks own Berlin 😂
The most important thing is that we remain genetically distinct. If our women mix with their men, there will be no reconquest.
Dear gauls celts please love more the celtiberics
@@TheFatController.its bit late for that budy
This put the mainstream narrative that often claim that Spain was muslim for 7 century under perspective. Only in Granada this happenend for so long
It wasn't Muslim. It was occupied by them
@@JaouiTomo-dp3tqlets get real, if its occupied for hundreds of years, it becomes theirs too. At least unless they leave for many many generations, wich means they cant claim anything in Spain now.
But by the times of the Cordoba Caliphate, that was both christian and muslim territory. By the time Granada fell, only Andalusia could be considered muslim territory... and so on.
yes because they killed all Iberian Muslims left
Exactly the sand people of arabia ruled it longer there
@@alejandronieto4212 spain had never been a muslim country. Muslim arabs was temporary settlers. And jews were major actors in life.
Nice. We 🇬🇷 stopped them in the East, Franks stopped them in the West and Spaniards took back their own. We, we haven’t yet completed our reconquest.
greece? stoppped them from the east??
nah it was austria and russia who got the credit bro
I’m pretty sure Greece got mopped by the Ottomans and were ruled for 100s of years. It was only during World War I one that the Ottomans fell nice try though.
@@rabbaniazzahra1784 Byzantine - Arab wars. Long long before any Austria came into existence. And then (Siege of Vienna), credit goes to the Poles. Read about it.
Exactly@@cdr259
@@cdr259también había 700 arcabuceros españoles que fueron clave en Viena.
I can trace my ancestry to 1640 in the Kingdom of Navarre. My ancestor was appointed by the king of Spain to be governor of Granada in what is now Nicaragua. I lived in Rota, Spain as a young child when my father was in the US Navy and was stationed there. Fascinating history!
¿¿¡¡Really!!?? That´s fascinating, mate.
your ancestors participated in native american genocide?
@@ufuk.adamı Conquest yes, like every other society in history. I wouldn’t call it genocide. Most of the deaths were caused by European diseases. They just wanted the silver, gold and land (and to save their souls from hell). They don’t call the Bubonic Plague 1300’s Europe genocide.
@@ufuk.adamı As if your Turkey didnt do the same when the Ottoman empire tried to conquer Europe ... At least Spain treated the conquered territories as part of Spain and did intermarriage, unlike the british who treated their territories as colonies and did ethnic cleansing ... Why ex british colonies are all white and in Spanish ex territories there is a mix of colours? .... And when Ottoman empire conquered lands until Austria, they were conquering lands with flowers and roses, right? Your ancestros participated in balkan people genocide ???
@@ufuk.adamıTo be fair, I think most of our ancestors have participated in Genocide of a race
When people say the west has fallen. Remind them of the reconquista.
damn straight
God bless Spain, Isabel I was a great queen and El Cid a great hero of Spain.
El Cid era un mercenario, que combatió más tiempo bajo las órdenes de monarcas de musulmana, que de fe cristiana.
Una genocida esclavista y un personaje de leyenda popular. Ja😂
But now, European are idiot and stupid. They imported massive number of Muslim to Europe, in the name of multiculturalism sh*t.
@@ERISLagriega
NO TIENES NI IDEA.
ISABEL I LA CATÓLICA FUÉ DETERMINANTE PARA CONSIDERAR A LOS NATIVOS INDIOS COMO SUJETOS DE EVANGELIZACIÓN Y POR TANTO NUEVOS CRISTIANOS CON TODO LO QUE IMPLICABA.
LA MEJOR REINA
@emiliosanz2573 , como a los canarios? 🤣🤣
the Iberian peninsula is now all of Europe. Almost time for a European Reconquista.
I could not agree more!!!
Totally agree, now!
Yeah lol😂 Love from THE ONLY American who knows geography!
@@JohnSmith-tz8gj keyboard warrior
only Israel know how to deal with those people today.
Proud to have ancestors who belongs to these to two great nations. They have struggle for many century against islamic occupation and the colonization by the middle-easterners, and finaly they achieve their national liberation.
@limonesycafe8898If they did it wasn't a true acceptance, it was because Islam is spread at sword point. 'Convert or die' it wasn't a willing choice!
@limonesycafe8898 Not true, not true at all. Islam does not tolerate other faiths!
Y ahora te traen inmigrantes en masa en Plan KALERGI contra Europa de sustitución racial " gracias " a los políticos y reyes masones. Traidores.
'Convert or die' is not an accurate phrase you know Islam prohibited to force people to change their religion unwillingly and other religions co-existed in that period... actually unlike what happen when Christian kingdoms take over, actually the majority of people living under the Muslim rule maybe weren't Muslims for centuries it was a gradual change of belief.
@limonesycafe8898Recuerda que además de guerra religiosa era una guerra racial, defender la raza Blanca, hoy en día con las nuevas modas impuestas está mal decirlo , pero es la verdad.
I use Reconquista as a self motivation when my life is becoming hard. Christian Kingdoms of Iberia Peninsula managed to win because they didn't give up, even when everything seems to be lost. Good job, Iberians! 👍 👏👏👏 👌
Not Iberians, Spaniards*.
¡¡Exactly!!
I would use the word “Iberians” because people in what became Portugal participated. “Iberians” can refer to a pre-Roman tribe or to all inhabitants of the peninsula.
@@roderik3059Remember that Portugal also helped
@@joshadams8761 portuguese was called also "spaniards" this times, spain name is not roman, is previous.
19:30 devoted catholic. Treating Isabel as a fanatic is completely biased.
yes it's biased, she was a mass murderer to be more precise.
Typical Anglo propaganda. XD
I thought the same thing! I even replayed the moment because it seemed so big to me!
Typical Anglosaxon propaganda (negrolegendarios claro) that's right.
Leyenda Negra
How many protestants did the Catholic monarchs kill? I guess that was all 'anglo' propaganda too. The Catholics killed their own people just because they did not believe in their pagan religion. Catholicism is roman paganism. It is the Whore of Babylon of Revelation 17 and the Popes are antichrist, the man of sin. They replaced the bible with Popes and councils.
The video is good, but it has several errors, such as that only the kings of Castile, Navarre and Aragon attended Las Navas de Tolosa, but not Portugal; furthermore, El Cid Campeador was Castilian, not Aragonese, and the maps show that the county of Barcelona continued long after it had already been incorporated into the Crown of Aragon.
Well, the county of Barcelona continued. It was never incorporated to the territories of the kingdom of Aragon.
Actually, while King Afonso II of Portugal refused the calling from Alfonso VIII due their conflicts, significant Portuguese crusaders participated at Navas de Tolosa
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_las_Navas_de_Tolosa
Portuguese crusaders participated in the battle
Navas de Tolosa was a crusade requested by Pope Innocent III. Thanks to the status of crusade the different Christian kingdoms were forced to go to this battle. Between the different Christian kingdoms there were wars and different interests, that is why before the Navas of Tolosa there was never a union between Christians. This battle was also attended by knights from Europe: French, Occitan and Templars.
It also states, Seville and Cadiz had been conquered by Castille before Portugal had conquered its full territory when it was not true. Actually Portugal carried on its reconquista to East of Algarve but then offered the Sevillian lands in exchange of no longer having to run the war on the Muslims, leaving it to be finished by the Castillians.
Being Portuguese, from Lisbon, this video interested me especially. Thank you.
Viva Portugal e Viva Espanha!
8 siglos de lucha contra el islam forjaron el temple, la mentalidad y el carácter españoles.
¡Viva España!
Viva Espanha e Viva Portugal!
Piove governo ladro
Viva España desde Vascongadas, NO país vasco NO euskadi del pelma Sabino Arana.
@@baeticus1 Portugal y España hermanos.
@@Karifi ¿vagos,quién ?Explícate.
Spain have saved the West many times, on the seas and on the land… they have brought True Faith of our Lord and Saviour Jesus to the new World and Evangelised Americas, parts of Asia and Africa, long live Espańa we love you
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You're welcome! Love from Portugal 🇵🇹
People that believe in bullshit are so lovely
We made so many Christians as nobody else did.
@@RuiLeTubo Portugal Also
The Astures were the last Spanish to be conquered by Romans. A legio was established in León to control Astures rebellions. At the end Astures served in the Román Army mainly in cavalry. In spite of the small size of Asturia, the Astures Alae and Cohorts were the Most numerous in the Román Army. They served from the Hadrian Wall to North África and from Germany to Dacia.
The Astures never were conquered by Suevii, Visigoths or Muslims.
devido à cadeia montanhosa das Astúrias
Legio IX Hispana ("9th Hispanian Legion"),[1] also written as Legio VIIII Hispana,[2] was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that existed from the 1st century BC until at least AD 120. The legion fought in various provinces of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. The nickname "Hispana" was gained when it was stationed in Hispania under Augustus. It was stationed in Britain following the Roman invasion in AD 43. The legion disappears from surviving Roman records after c. AD 120 and there is no extant account of what happened to it.[4]
@@xispaster Nothing to do with Asturias. The I Alae Asturum, The II Alae Asturum and the II Cohort Asturum were in the Hadrian Wall till the fall of the Román Empire.
@@MrClassicfever La península ibérica está llena de cadenas montañosas y ningún pueblo opuso tanta resistencia al invasor como el pueblo Astur. La cadena montañosa solo defiende el flanco sur.
¿Y los vascos?
I appreciate the history video, but please, stop spreading the black legend. The spanish inquisition was very moderate by the standards of the time. It was far more moderate than the inquisitions that took place in other european countries. And spanish catholics were less brutal with heretics than muslims were with infidels (and that was after they endured centuries of brutal oppression at the hands of muslims). The idea that the spanish inquisition was exceptionally cruel or brutal is a myth that was created and promoted by the protestant enemies of Spain, and it remains popular to this day.
You are correct, While the spanish inquisition seems horrible by today's standards, It wasn't at all extreme for the time, The idea that it was this really cruel and unusual thing is mostly a narrative to make the catholic christians look bad.
The Leftists love this myth. They are anti-christian. It gives them a hard-on to teach it.
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Amen.
There's actually people that think that the inquisition caused "millions of people" to die from torture and murder, but the numbers barely go into a couple thousand. While the Spanish Inquisition wasn't a good thing, it does really pales in comparison of what the Muslims did in what used to be a thoroughly Christian area around the whole rim of the Mediterranean.
Why does everyone view spain as a reconquest. But the crusades were not a failed reconquest? The middle east was also previously majority Orthodox and Coptic Christian
The history of the Reconquista and Reunification of Spain is fascinating.
Desde España, Reconquista completamente Épica, nuestros antepasados se lo curraron mucho. Pero ahora nos traen invasores a Europa por la caradura en el Plan KALERGI contra Europa de sustitución racial descarado.
Desde España, nuestros antepasados lucharon durante 8 siglos expulsando moros y africanos sin contemplaciones, ahora dirían que eran xenófobos y lindezas así pero ellos no estaban para tonterías de " tolerancia e integración ".
Desde España ,nuestros antepasados lucharon 8 siglos para expulsar moros y africanos sin contemplaciones ( ahora dicen esas tonterías de Tolerancia,multirracial, multiculturalismo para hacer Ingeniería Social---de las Logias).
It absolutely is, yes!!
great barbarism.
Lebanon should take note of this and have their own reconquista.
Lebanon and the rest of Tyre belongs to Christ
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was born in Burgos, he was a vasal of the Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Alfomso VI), not Aragon, until he fall in disgrace being forced to exile he served under different Taifas like Zaragoza. In his second exile was when he conquered Valencia until his death.
Alfonso Vl heredó León .....Castilla , volvió a ser su condado , a la muerte del malvado rey de Castilla, sancho ll
@santiagoandresmartinez3093¿Malvado por qué? Sancho era el mayor, y amigo de la infancia del Cid.
God bless the brave Christian soldiers who saved Europe.
What a wonderful work man, I really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Glorious Christian victories against heathens
Retard!
Zealot
@biomuseum6645 I prefer to be called religious fanatic
GayJesus strikes back
@@Ghostrex101 same 💩 different 🚽
I know a Barcelonian. Now, I understand Spain better. I loved the Catalonians connection in Patrick O'Brian's novel series. Great history brought to life
All that struggle and now the governments mass inviting again
We did it one time, we do it again
@@aleferrari227Rooting for you, hermanos.
Yeah, current Arab colonizers in Europe are quick to whine about 19/20th century European colonialism in their land to justify their current colonization of Western Europe as a "payback", but they forget they colonized Spain for 700 years...
So troooo
@@aleferrari227 The European man has been feminised sadly. Too soft unlike our ancestors.
🇵🇹❤️🇪🇦 Our Gothic brothers.
We're a little Empire,let's be just us,alone.😊🎉God protect King Philip VI
Yes!
Reconquista was very interesting and when the People are united they can do anything a lot of respect from France
This was really nicely done!
It is interesting how we hear all the time how horrible the Catholic Monarchs were to Jews and Muslims when the Almohad Caliphate was just as bad to Jews and Christians. It makes me wonder if there is a bit of an anti-Catholic bias amongst historians sometimes. At least the producer of this video had the courage to bring this up which shows the Muslims were not always as tolerant of other religions in Spain as commonly taught.
There's not a bit of an anti-Catholic bias. There's a lot of it.
learn about the black legend of spain
Hahaha Jews were persecuted by Spanish and came to hide in the Arab world . Jews during the moorish Spain and Christian’s alike lived their best lives!
What about the massacre of the Jews in granada 1066 ...by muslims
John Quincy Adams summarized it nicely: "The precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective."
It's time for reconquista 2.0 Europe ! Deus Vult !! ✝
Bro forgot to include the Balearic Islands which was taken by Emirate of Cordova in 902 and then taken by Aragon in 1235.
This video is very inaccurate in the East side, Lleida + Tortosa were taken by Ramón Berenguer before 1150 but in the video shows like It was after 1250
Thank you for the video, it was very enjoyable!
I wouldn't say that they lost the motivation to keep fighting since they went directly to north africa during the 15th and 16th centuries (at least Portugal went) to fight there and conquer territories.
Yeah, in fact that is the reason why Melilla is spanish. If i am not mistaken, they conquered it because it was a territory controlled by Granada.
Ceuta as well though not sure if it was ever Granadan@@theglobe292
There were many battles and victories of Spain in North Africa: Argel, Oran, Tunez, etc
Long live the glory of God, Jesus, the holy spirit, and Roman Catholicism. The Holy Roman Empire lives on! Viva España!
Catholics, just boffa boys on a piss trip to Anfield
So glad for the reconquista. Else Europe would have been doomed by this cult
Ah this barbaric hordes the so called religion of pieces..😂😂
Today europe is giving in to them 😢
The Spanish lost and the arabs went North but were quickly defeated by the franks (French) at the battle of Tours even tho it was not the biggest Army of France, were outnumbered and had less armor than the arabs. Still won using specific tactics.
Quite a lot of mistakes. El Cid fought besides Muslims and Castillians against Aragonese king (not for him), who was actually killed in the battle of Fraga by this combined force. Then, he was a mercenary for many years for the Muslim king of Saraqusta (Zaragoza). County of Barcelona never had the extension depicted in the map, it was just the more powerful of a bunch of counties created by Charlemagne, covering also the Pirenees to Navarre, including the County of Aragon. You have left Aragon included in the Kingdom of Navarre to the XII century and then remembered that it was an independent kingdom from a century earlier, just to mention a few mistakes, we could continue, but let's be good.
The map says "Kingdom of Aragon". Barcelona was never part of the kingdom of Aragon (When they joined, Aragon was about to disappear), was part of the Crown of Aragon, as later were Majorca and Valencia. Please stop confusing both. Aragon Crown is not the same as Aragon Kingdom. (As the British Crown is not the same as the English Kindom)
@framegrace1 nobody said anything like that
España nunca tuvo colonias, tuvo virreinatos, eran otras provincias españolas. Los indígenas tenian los mismos derechos que el resto de los españoles, la reina Isabel la Católica incluso impulsó el mestizaje, lo dejó escrito en su testamento, todos eran sus súbditos. Hubo abusos porque los conquistadores eran hombres, no ángeles. Se unieron muchas tribus americanas a los españoles para hacer la conquista de otras tribus opresoras, porque los admiraban. Hubo 300 años de paz en toda la hispanidad. Se crearon muchas ciudades y pueblos con carreteras, escuelas, universidades, hospitales gratuitos para todos, acueductos, iglesias, catedrales, etc. Hay muchos lugares que son patrimonio de la humanidad, lo que no p
uede decirse de los imperios colonizadores europeos. Se prohibieron los sacrificios humanos y el canibalismo gracias a la religión católica, se escribieron las primeras gramaticas de lenguas indígenas, etc. El legado de España en América es maravilloso!!! 😊
Of course. That'll be why the South American "viceroyalties" were so keen to escape from this paradise as soon as they could.............
So what can you say how Spaniards oppressed us in the south east Asia, Philippines, killed people and burned our homes and villages if we dont pay taxes? Yup yup. We were colonized.
Read a book. Stop fooling yourself. Wake up. Spain was an oppressor for 333 years!
Exacto, saludos desde la antigua Real Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador). Viva la Hispanidad.
El concepto de colonia encaja perfectamente con los virreinatos y se hicieron bastantes atrocidades, como en todas las ocupaciones de este tipo.
@@Ocell728Las atrocidades las cometieron los anglosajones con los indios se Norte América.
“Caliphs and Kings” by Roger Collins is a good history book to read on the early Reconquista. It also counters the very slanted portrayal books like “The Ornament of the World” propagated of the tolerance of this period.
Nice rec, ty. I really don't believe in tolerance history re-writing based on modern principles. People were not tolerant at all (with exceptions required in real politiks of their times) before decades of science and reason. People aren't even tolerant at all in many places in this day and age, even with centuries of questioning of what I consider human made up myths taken over by local monolithic corporations and indoctrination that followed. I don't believe in any human religion, it's all bs to me, but I can understand people raised into that and raised to hate what isn't the one they were raised in, completely buying into it. I'd be killed pretty quickly and gruesome a few centuries back with my mindset or today in some places. I'll never say "there's no god" because I have no proof to substantiate that. I feel the only valid response to these questions is "I don't know, and you don't know either because you've offered zero evidence". I find the "believe" thing to be lacking, it just means you either believe with no proof or you've surrendered to pressure. I'm just glad we can at least discuss it at this point in time, in plenty of places.
Just a correction: the whole of Aragon depicted was not a kingdom actually. It was a crown, the Crown of Aragon, i.e. a federation of kingdoms: the kingdom of Aragon, the County and late Principality of Barcelona, the Kingdom of Valencia, the Kingdom of Mallorca, and outside the Iberian Peninsula, the Kingdoms of Sardinia, Sicily and Naples. Not to mention other minor territories too bordering the Mediterranean. The final border of Aragon is not exactly like in the video, since part of the province of Alicante is incorrectly depicted as land of Castile. All in all, great video. Thank you! 👏
… and the birth of the Kingdom of Portugal 🇵🇹 in 1143AD that expelled the "Muslim Moors" from Portugal in 1249AD, more than two Centuries before the Kingdom of Castille and Aragon 🇪🇸 expelled the Nasrids (Arab Dinasty) from the Emirate of Granada that they ruled from 1232AD to 1492AD.
Portugal XD what the fuck they did?
@ Did you missed History Classes!? Portuguese established the first Global Empire in the World before anyone else!
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tbf, Portugal liberated less territory than Castile; they were still great though
@ Obviously… among other Christian Kingdoms (León, Aragon, Navarre, etc) that ended up unifying into Spain (The Country)! It’s not a competition between Iberians but this title "The Reconquista: The Victory of Christianity and the Unification of Spain" seems to leave aside not only the independence of Portugal as its importance in that so called Christian victory! That by the way didn’t ended with the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula! Portuguese kept on fighting the "Muslim Moors" in North Africa leading to the conquest of Ceuta in 1415. Not to talk about the Portuguese - Ottoman conflicts in the 1500's for the control of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea that most definitely kept Ottomans, Mamluks, Adal Sultanate, etc busy and not so focused in trying to conquer European territories! Saludos! 🫡🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸
@@brixcosmo We can hardly call a series of fortified trading posts on the route between Lisbon and India "Global Empire", extending it if you want to the commercial legation of Nagasaki.
From there to the Atlantic coasts of Brazil, crossing the entire Pacific Ocean, there are 21,000 km, half the circumference of the earth.
The first great transoceanic empire, yes, but there have only been two global empires, the Hispanic Monarchy between 1580-1640, and the British Empire of the 19th-20th century.
Just one little correction. The union of Castile and Aragon didn't lead to the Kingdom of Spain but to the Spanish Monarchy, or to the Spanish Crown (both remained independent to eachother). Castille paid Christopher Columbus expedition, so America, were Castillas only Territory, under the Catholic Spanish Monarchy, not Aragon (which had territory in the Mediterranean sea, such as Napoli) This is the reason Why in Latin America people speak Spanish castellano, and not Catalan.
Latin America do not speak only castellan. The Latin giant Speaks Portuguese mother fucker
Valencian, not catalan
Algún día algunos entenderéis que una identidad cultural e histórica, como la española, no necesita unificación gubernamental de ningún tipo para existir.
@@davidmosqueramorales9737 Both are correct, but catalan has been always more used than valencian.
Catalan, valencian? What about "llemosí"?
This proves two things. 1. That a modern reconquista is not only necessary but possible to achieve. 2. That the second stability is achieved, rich land owners will immediately go right back to rescending any improvements/advancements in social well being and mobility of the working class.
that is our great reward apparently, unreal.
They conquered and colonized north Africa, the Levant, central Asia, Asia minor, the Iberian peninsula, the balkans, parts of eastern Europe, parts of india and yet they have the nerve to lash at European colonialism. muslims, you were a colonial power 1000s years before Europeans became one so cut the crap
Interesting story from the atheist China point of view.
the spain reconquista seems to be the only sample where Muslim withdraw, it will not surprise anyone if the process was extraordinari brutal.
0:20 The Basques were not under Asturian influence or against the Arabs at that time, it was the Cantabrians who did revol along the Asturians. Don Pelayo was a descendant of Pedro de Cantabria, the oldest ancestor of the Hispanic monarchy.
Not sure about that. Could you give us your sources? Please, no wikipedia.
@@ignaciomoreno9655Wikipedia its not my source of information, I studied this matter wille coursing my degree on history so here are some books you might like to read: "De 'Cantabria' y 'Asturia' al surgimiento de (las) 'Asturias' (ss. VIII-IX). and La gestación de la reconquista en el área cántabra" and "Pelayo: Liébana, un reino", wach your thone. What I said about the Basques not being under Asturian rule is an approved fact, regarding Pedro of Cantabria he´s traced as the first ancestor and origin of the Spanish monarchy (It was Philip V who promoted this idea)
@ignaciomoreno9655 bosques entered actual "basque country " in the late-fall if Roman empire (look for: Vasconización tardía). And it was much further east than the Asturian region, well past cantabrian regions.
My dear, please don't mess the basques in the early resistance against the muslims. I am ASTURIAN, we are proud to be this origin, nothing against the basque individuals, but they did not participate. They are separated from Asturias about 100 km, in between the Santander province, since antique epoques considered a part of Old Castilla.
Besides in Asturias we proudly state that Spain is Asturias, the orher territories just land reconquered from the muslims, whilst the basque authorities are playing with the idea of separate from Spain. No coincidence in the background and no coincidence in the vision of the nation.
Great video! Seems quite unbiased narration too which is a breath of fresh air. :). :).
May I suggest to keep the timeline on? Sometimes it's hard to keep track of the period.
The flag used in the video for both Alfonso l de Aragón and the Kingdom of Aragon is wrong, as that was the flag of the dinasty of Barcelona and the two dinasties had not yet joined at the time.
Wrong.
The flag that appears is well used, it is that of Aragon, granted by Pope Alexander II to the king of Aragon Sancho Ramírez in 1068.
The gules in a golden field can only be worn by royal lineages, something that does not occur in the counts of Barcelona, who began to use them after their union with the House of Aragon in 1137.
@@Tago-h1b The red and yellow stripes are a symbol of the "Casal de Barcelona" as the tomb of Ermessenda de Carcassona shows. She died in 1058 which is before the supposed events you mention. By the way, the banner of Sancho Ramírez, who became king in 1063, is a white cross with a blue background.
@@ignasifortgrandas5267 Totally fake.
The sarcophagus of Ermessenda of Carcassone was moved in 1385 and the decoration is from that time.
The flag that appears it is that of Aragon, granted by Pope Alexander II to the king of Aragon Sancho Ramírez in 1068.
@@Tago-h1b The sepulchre was indeed moved and still retains its Romansque style, with the pigments of the stripes chemically dating around the year 1100, not 1385.
@@ignasifortgrandas5267It has already been archaeologically proven that the paintings were made in 1385 on the occasion of the later embellishment of the sarcophagus, read the report on this by Alberto Montaner Frutos.
8 siglos sin rendirnos señores! Defenderemos España hasta la eternidad. ARRIBA ESPAÑA! CAMARADAS!
No viva España
@@Francisco-qq5mvDi que Si VIVA ESPANA !!!!
A los de arriba que se vallan a Alemania
@@Francisco-qq5mv🤡
Arriba España desde Vascongadas también.
Viva España y Viva Cristo Rey
I do not believe that Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon were fanatics. In fact, at first the three religions coexisted, something that would not happen anywhere in Europe, but the need to maintain a unification of destiny led to the expulsion of the Muslims and the Jews, although they could also integrate, they are the so-called "conversos." Few conquistadors would have done that.
Typical Anglo propaganda.
If Isabela is fanatic we need to say the same with Elizabeth if we look at what happened to the catholics in the Uk
The multicultural paradise of Al-Andaluz propaganda.
Pls. Isabel.
Why is the Inquisition condemned while the Muslim forced conversions under torture and execution is excused?
Ofc they love their mooslems
Quatar funding academics in universities in the uk and America but also the.black legend has an influence the whole protestant vs catholic propaganda
Great video, thank you.
One concept that stood out to me throughout the vast scope of this conflict was the idea that later in the Castile Kingdom the tribute to the emperor was one chicken and three loaves of bread from each free family.
It amounted to a flat tax that everyone paid. And there was an incentive for the government to incentivize more land ownership distributed amongst the people. This also incentivized the distribution of wealth and its discouraged having oligarchs who hoarded wealth. It's something that we could learn from in government today.
Good work summarizing iberian History but... fanatical Catholic Isabella? Not much more than fanatical Anglican Elizabeth in my opinion.
Saint James, pray for us and protect us in battle, now and till the hour of our death, Amen.
Very well done documentary.
was a timely boost to the Spanish kings who had suffered a heavy defeat at the Battle of Alarcos in 1195 CE. The Christians in Spain were suffering from a lack of unity, too. King Alfonso IX of Léon (r. 1188-1230 CE) had made an alliance with the Muslims, but his strategy brought excommunication from Pope Celestine III (r. 1191-1198 CE), and the even more unusual step of granting any Christian who fought the king a remission of sins. Consequently, Christians were now fighting fellow Christians. There was, in fact, a long tradition of alliances between Muslim and Christian statelets in Spain, trade and economics often superseding differences in religion,
Pekunia Non Olet my Friends
Would have been cool if they kept going and took Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
Spain did it.
He conquered the cities of Oran in Algeria (1509), Tripoli in Libya (1510) and Tunisia (1535), but he was only able to hold Oran until 1792.
The northern part of Morocco was a Spanish protectorate between 1912 and 1956, and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa have been Spanish since the 16th century.
@Tago-h1b seems like dangerous Muslim backwater 2nd world countries. Not like a comfortable safe first world country like Spain. Islam is very restrictive and I would definitely not want to live in or be subject to a Muslim nation.
Every day, the people of the Iberian Penninsula woke up to discover what religion they were.
The way its going in europe history will repeat itself
The sad thing no one is paying attention to the silent invasion
It's orchestrated by global elites to divide you
We must all fight against it
Europe is turning to nationalism because of it, it's hardly true that "nobody is paying attention".
The world owes to Isabela and Fernando
8:34 The person who proclaimed himself emperor of all Spain (Imperator totius Hispanie), was his son Afonso VI and later his grandson.
Taking into account that at that time the term Hespanha referred to the region equivalent to the Iberian Peninsula and not to a kingdom.
You're wrong.
King Alfonso III of Asturias initiated the spanish imperial idea in the 9th century, in 867 he was confirmed as "Adefonsus totius Hispaniae imperator", referring to the Visigothic Kingdom.
@@roddeazevedo In the documents of that time they speak of the "Restoration" (in the 19th century it will be renamed as "Reconquista") of the Visigoth kingdom of Hispania.
Spain is nothing more than the translation of the Latin word into the Romance language.
Hispania = Spain.
Geographically, the Peninsula begins to be known as the Iberian Peninsula to differentiate it from the political term Hispania.
Since the Catholic Monarchs, the Spanish kings have been titled "Kings of the Spains" or "of Spain" interchangeably.
Charles I of Spain already signs the Treaty of Madrid of 1523 as "King of the Spains".
Thus, the idea of the Spanish nation was born during the Reconquista and materialized with the Catholic Monarchs in 1479.
@@roddeazevedoDocuments from the 16th century, both in Spain and in other countries, refer to "Spain", "the Spanish", "the Spanish Empire", "the viceroyalty of New Spain", etc.
Everything you can say against it is only in your mind, it has nothing to do with reality.
@@roddeazevedo The Catholic Monarchs refer to themselves in their correspondence as kings of "Spain" and "of the Spains."
The first official document in which the country is named this way is that of the Treaty of Madrid of 1523 by Charles I of Spain.
All these documents can be consulted electronically and for free in the PARES portal of the Spanish national archive.
@@roddeazevedo Stole?
From who?
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"Who wrote this??? The Cid was born in Aragón???? Honestly, the way this person butchers history is an absolute disgraced
Burgos
@@Francisco-qq5mvtengo claro que nació en Burgos... Para ser exactos en VIVAR del CID!!!! 😂
if they had not so often fought each other it might not have taken 700 years
bro H in Spanish is a quiet H as in french hence Hidalgo ( pronounced more or less idalgo) ..can't be that hard...
It wasn't the unification of Spain but the reunification of Spain. Spain had already been united with a sole Hispanic identity, culture and sense of nation back with the Visigothic monarchs and even further back with Roman Hispania.
Not really true my friend.... while they were technically under the same ruler, regions of Spain retained their own identity. Nationalism was never a thing at the time, and the people felt more loyal to a certain smaller region than their monarch. In fact, you wouldn't have called it one country at all. First, they all speak different languages in different areas such as Catalan, Arragonese, Galician...etc. Spanish (back then known as Castillian Spanish), the official language today, was never formally established until around the 13th century. To show you they never thought of themselves as one country, you can see in the video that though certain parts of modern-day Spain broke away from Muslim rule, they didn't "reunite" and instead tried to establish dominance over their other Christian rivals. It's this autonomous kind of thinking that leads to the current situation in Spain. I'm not sure if you know this, but Spain has been struggling with the Catalan independence movement for a while now. This just shows that what I'm saying is correct: that certain Spanish regions maintain their own subculture and identity (though not to the degree of back in the medival ages I guess).
@beefylilun178 Completely wrong, there are written manuscripts from back in the day where people would call different regional languages as "Spanish from (name of the region)," e.g., "Español de Aragón" for Aragonese and so on. The different Christian kingdoms referred to the laws of the Visigoths as a basis for rights, arguments, and traditions. Even back during Roman times they would joke that for Hispanics "Vivere bibere est" (living is drinking) playing on the fact that Hispanics wouldn't distinguish the sounds of V and B just like we do now and the fact that they were known for partying as we are today.
The Spanish identity was born in Hispania and took full form during Visigothic Spain. Also, it's called the Spanish Reconquering because Spain had to retake Spain back and following the same logic, it was a reunification.
@@AFVEH you say I am "completely wrong", yet the political situation of Spain currently says otherwise. You said nothing to address it because you have only little details to justify your narrative but no concrete and valid proof. Little details of having the same "parties" and pronouncing words similarly are nowhere near enough to justify them having the same culture. It's like saying the Japanese and Chinese are the same folk because they both use chopsticks and write with symbols. It's like saying Mexico and Colombia are the same country because both countries use Spanish and pronounce the "R" the same.
Very wrong to do this. Your so called "regional languages" all have some connection to Latin, but they were NEVER formally referred to collectively as Spanish until 13th century.
There were no such things as "Spainyards" until the near end of the Reconquista, when they began to have some form of identity.
Among professors and researchers:
"The consensus is that nationalism as a concept was firmly established by the 19th century.[48][49][50] In histories of nationalism, the French Revolution (1789) is seen as an important starting point, not only for its impact on French nationalism but even more for its impact on Germans and Italians and on European intellectuals."
Unfortunately, the French Revolution is way after this period so....nationalism barely existed during their time => no kind of "Spanish country".
@@AFVEH and if you must know why we call it "Reconquista" nowadays, it is because modern historians refer to it, NOT because the people at the time refer to it. Modern historians by this point have already established Spain as a nation and thus refer to it as such. For proof:
"The term "Reconquista" was first used in the 19th century to describe the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. "
What does it mean? It means people at the time did NOT refer to it as Reconquista, only modern people. Taken direct from a source. Notice how it didn't say "Christian reconquest of Spain"? it said "Iberian Peninsula". There is a difference.
@@beefylilun178 I see you know nothing of the political situation we are having, nor where it comes from. Catalonian separatism is fairly new and modern. In the 19th century this idea of an independent Catalonia didn't even exist yet in any meaningful capacity. Basque separatism is also fairly new. They have historically been the most patriotic of all Spaniards, like Blas de Lezo, for example. The current situation is driven by modern economic and pseudo-ethnic reasons.
Again, I have read manuscripts where the different languages in the Iberian Peninsula were referred to as Spanish of (name of the region). I remember even reading one where at one point it said "pues no le entendí ya que hablaba su Español" (I didn't understand him for he spoke his Spanish) referring to a merchant that spoke Catalan. In fact, during the days of the Reconquering, the different Christian Kingdoms were referred to as "Las Españas" (the Spains). Whenever succession was questioned between different nobles, Visigothic laws were used to settle arguments. This showed continuity. The Christian Kingdoms of the peninsula were a continuation of Visigothic Spain, and hence, once these united again, it was a reunification of this country that had been broken up by the moors.
The active idea of a nation doesn't have to exist for there to be able to look back and see that people did infact have a national feeling. It's like saying that gravity didn't exist until Newton came along and wrote about it. Are you going to claim the Greeks of antiquity didn't have a sense of being Greek regardless of the polis they were from? They didn't have a sense of Greek nationalism just because the term hadn't yet been defined? That's a ridiculous stance.
Furthermore, the Cantar de Mio Cid, written around the year 1200, mentions Spain "España" more than once. Even Columbus writes about Spain as a whole, and Spain hadn't yet been fully reunited.
And like I said, the Spanish culture and identity started to be defined in Roman Hispania and was established with Visigothic Spain. It was infact a reunification, to say otherwise is to know nothing of our history nor of our roots and what defines us.
The 2nd Spanish inquisition wasn't established by the Catholic Monarchs but forced upon them by the Pope, they tried to oppose it as much as possible.
Catholicism is roman paganism. It is the Whore of Babylon of Revelation 17 and the Popes are antichrist, the man of sin. They replaced the bible with Popes and councils.
The Roman Inquisition was much,much worse
Cuando empezamos la segunda?
Gestión video bro ❤
Spain??? Or Spain and Portugal???
And for your knowledge there where no Spain at this time but several kingdoms like Portugal, Castille, Catalonya, etc...
Reconquista is to reconquer what was already there before. And what was there before was a single Christian Kingdom in Hispania with its capital in Toledo. So the reconquista is the RECONQUEST or RESTORATION OF HISPANIA, when neither Portugal, nor Catalonia, nor Castile existed yet and everyone in Iberia was HISPANIC.
@@micupedro Yes so its not the unification of "spain" but of the Hispaniae Peninsula or as named today the Iberian Peninsula.
and even this title would be incorrect since the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula did not result in any unification but rather in the creation of several kingdoms
Cataluña didn't was a kingdom, Aragón was.
@@PatadeCabra369 its not the point of my comment
@frapiment6239 You are right in all except that.
Lets hope it doesn't take 7 centuries next time
Larga vida a España. La patria que en el campo de batalla ganó al Islam, al comunismo y defendimos Europa y occidente. Nos enfrentamos al mundo entero y ganamos durante 3 siglos! Cuando nos volvamos a unir volveremos a la cabeza del mundo ✝️❤🇪🇸
España no existía cuando los cristianos y los musulmanes se disputaban la península. Y la Monarquía Hispánica fue primera potencia durante apenas un siglo por la circunstancia especial de empezar a colonizar América antes que el resto de potencias europeas. No lo fue por potencial propio y jamás lo volverá a ser.
@ de dónde eres?
@@Ocell728they will just explore space instead
Hay algunos que la grandeza de España les impide dormir.
Menosprecian aquello que hubiesen querido ser y que nunca seran. La gloria se enamoró de España.
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viva durruti
Spain was Unique in Europe, having a much more diversified population: Christians, Jews, and Muslim, living together pretty pleasantly. Spain also had the most just Feudal system to the continent. Spain blew it. Spain would've been the most powerful of Europe, and not "just" militarily, which was the Spanish weakness in the upcoming centuries after it's discoveries of the Americas.
Pues hay que enmontañarse nuevamente.
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"Pleasantly"?
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"Militarily, which was the Spanish weakness"?
Good joke!
Try harder!
Lol.
I read once there were Islamic communities in the mountains of Granada that weren't taken out until 1609.
The narrator sees Christianity and Islam as much the same. History tells us otherwise.
Every religion is self deceit by default.
@@Ah01uh, no it’s not. Christianity is true, and your living in the benefits of a world where it got popular
@@PoppinPsinceAD33 " Uhh no my religion is true!"
@@PoppinPsinceAD33 there is nothing holding up that argument
@Zattec good quote… because yes my religion is true.
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for protecting Europe and Christendom.
Europe has to repeat the process.
I appreciate the effort done in the video to explain foreigners the longest battle in history to complete the Iberian Peninsula Reconquista (783 years), but the maps and territory limits and some battles did not happen that way. The Kingdom of Navarre is constantly changing borders and limits, almost as much as the Stock Market. There's no mention to the Cantons formed in the Spanish March ruled by Warlords. Skirmishes by boat are depicted several times like "battles", hundreds of kilometers away from the frontlines, where the winner, either Christian or Muslim then "repents" and abandons the city "conquered". Like Pamplona, Barcelona, Lisbon and so on. It has no sense...
Continuous comments about Spain or Portugal in X, XI, XII centuries, when they didn't exist at that time. Only Leon, Castille, Aragon, Navarre and Coimbra. But then again, the border limits displayed don't help and start to feel like someone is explaining a film. Portugal finished their side earlier than Spain (unlike what you've displayed on the map) reaching the Algarve in the 1260's, well said, but you don't mention the year of the biggest battle that changed it all. Navas de Tolosa, in 1212, where the Christian forces were able to flank the Muslim defenses keeping the battle frontline even and static for many years and, as a result, getting the first upperhand in the Reconquista for the Christians.
Then, when the Reconquista finally ended (1297 for Portugal and 1492 for the new-born Spain), both countries hugged Christiany as a way to identify themselves and their culture, indeed kicking other religions. Converted ex-Muslims were called Moriscos (up to this day), but coverted ex-Jews are called Sefardíes, not Marranos as you say. In fact that definition is an insult. Marrano has 2 meanings: First Pig or Hog but the second meaning is "filthy" (up to this day). In fact, Sefardi Jews still have a rough old Spanish spoken language to this day, talked by thousands.
To summarize, in my opinion, both countries have to put some effort to make their history known outside their borders and avoid reliying completely in third parties as they have done up this day. Foreigners tag this 2 countries, and Southern Europe in general, as noisy people. They often confuse noisy with us telling or showing off our merits, and they are 2 very different things.
Knowledge about Spain or Portugal requires intention to get deep and learn their culture. Things do not come naturally or are sponsored everywhere like some cultures. It requires effort but it pays off... People get in love with both countries once they get to know them. If you're a foreigner and you have not taken that path, chances are you're just talking about stereotypes or assuming things or behaviours you don't know about...
Nice.. short and sweet.. with good maps.. well done
Muslims tend to forget what Christians managed to do against them in Iberia, what Christians did to the pagans in England and eastern Europe...
Because many are cowarda today
Happy Ending. And from there to discovering América and changing the world forever.
How do you discover a place where people already have been living in for 15 thousand years?!
It was an autocratic colonialism that led to hundreds of years of Genocide, slavery and theft in the name of christ.
@@KhaledAlMutairi9You haven't got even one right, what a shame
La Fanatica dice,sin leyenda negra que vamos😂😂😂
No se les apodaban los Reyes Católicos...si no fue un título dado por el Papa de Roma.
Merci pour ton travail.
L’histoire est un joyaux à conserver.
Regardez l’Europe aujourd'hui...
D’un français catholique avec du sang espagnol.
The ones starting the reconquista was the Asturians with Pelayo in Covadonga. Vascs didn’t had anything with that. Pleas correct it.
Okay that's true but without the Basques and Cantabrians help we could have done it alone in Asturias.
Wrong wrong wrong! 😑
This is why you can’t let anglos to tell your history. Annoying. 😡
True. Typical Anglo propaganda.
Your lifelonglosing is showing
Said by a North African who lives in the slums
That's because 'Anglos' are the winners! Long live England and it's descendent nations across the globe!
@@RussianNationalist that would still be his history??
80 years to lose it, 700 years to win it back....
Yup those filthy Arabs dig in like pests and become difficult to get rid of, just ask France and the UK.
Yes, it is incredible how from a small stronghold in the mountains of Northern Spain a country stood up and was reconquered fighting against an empire that extended from France to India.
The incredible thing is not the time it took, the incredible thing is that they achieved it.
The gates were left open.
@@Tago-h1bmaybe I missundertood what you said but the arabs were not in France. When they leaked from Spain they got instantly defeated by one of the two frank armies at the battle of Tours.
What did you mean by that ?
@@agniisourgod5690 Simply that they extended from Charlemagne's Empire in the West to India in the East.
So glad the reconquista was successful.