The Battle of Covadonga 722 AD
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- The Battle of Covadonga, first act of centuries-long Reconquista, the reconquest of Iberian Peninsula.
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great video. I am Portuguese and Pelagius is our hero defeating these evil forces invading the Iberia peninsula
how were they evil?
@@user-dz4pb2ll3kIslâmicos são radicais e não toleram outras religiões
@user-dz4pb2ll3k Everyone was pretty much evil there almost all armies looted and ruined the lives of the people living in the countryside.
@@user-dz4pb2ll3kcould have asked them this when they invaded Sassanid Persia enslaved and murder thousands of innocent people. and literally drove an entire religion to extinction ( Zoroastrianism )
@@user-dz4pb2ll3kThey enslaved millions of women and children in Iberia and exported them into the islamic world as sex slaves. They would castrate young boys.
I'm proud of my Spanish Galician heritage. Today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista. And their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation (instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492 AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. (Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them.)
Asturias deserve all the recognition, for without them our present culture would not exist. Pelagius is barely mentioned in our history books, less than a paragraph, and it is a shame. So a big shout to this channel for its work.
@user-dz4pb2ll3k
I'm proud of my Spanish Galician heritage. Today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista. And their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation (instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492 AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. (Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them.)
Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West.
Solution: *Reconquista II*
I'm incredibly proud of our history, we have such a beautiful country, I'll pray for you asturians from Aragon
Yes, Andalusian History is incredible
@@skeso2k157 byzantium is reichest in anatolia in science and konwledge and architecture.
@@skeso2k157 doesn't exist anymore 😂 the Berbers don't even have a country 😂
@@skeso2k157 you had literally 0 reasons to be rude. that being said, where is your andalus now ;)
@@Sina.575 Morocco and Algeria
Go, Iberia🇪🇸🇵🇹 Great Pelayo
💪🏽💪🏽
Interesting how the Visigoths went from mighty bearded warlords with very organized armies to such a soft target, all because of a few generations without major wars.
Nope, muslim chronicles say that Julian after being humiliated by Roderic joined forces with Muza, enabling the muslim invasion. What happened after that is explained in the video, Tariq led a small berber force which surprisingly destroyed Roderic forces in the first battle and since he didn't find any strong opposition he took the visigoth capital of Toledo, which thanks to its geographical situation was the key of controlling Spain, and once Muza arrived with reinforcements it was over.
Visigoths were a very fractioned force, too many parties plotting against each other. So once the ruling party fell, they were doomed.
Visigoths, if you read the cronicles, the roman ones, were super peaceful people for what the germanics used to be. Mostly peasants and sheppers. If you read about them, you learn they were bouncing around for centuries because they really didnt have fighting spirit. Later on, with the romans, they had to harden up, yet they took so much abuse from romans, for centuries they were used like cattle. And yet, all tehy wanted to be was part of the roman empire. The romans never accepted them, betrayed them 1 thousand times.. until they had enough and the shit blew the fan. I guess they just went back to their original culture when they felt confortable in hispania. :).
@@alfgui3295 roderic messed up when he defiled Julians daughter even after already being the killer of his wifes father.
Muslims were much more advanced at that time
@@wattlebough nothing strange. they lost everything to mongols.
Great video. Thank you for making these.
Kings and Generals and thanks to you too!
Great day I guess. Uploads from both Kings & Generals and BazBattles.
Kings and Generals dude have you considered using the same box shaped battle units like bazz battles it would be really cool. i love your vids 2.
I agree a very informative and interesting video as always.
Excited for those Napoleonic Wars battles. Keep up the great work
"Ohhh a narrow valley! I am SURE nothing can happen here, come on boys let's kick those heathen arse!!!", famous last words of so many in history.
You would be surprised how many times marching your army through the narrow valley turned out to be a brilliant strategic move because the enemy didn't expect and there for didn't bother to guard it.
@@ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman when you're dealing with a cocky enemy this is one of the best possible moves
All the land in Asturias is a narrow valley surrounded by rugged mountains.
@@youwilldie8835 you'd think a noblemen on the run would rather be cautious than cocky
Im pretty sure there are a lot of times going through norrow valleys successfully but it's not just well known since no enemy is there
As a Spaniard, I'm very thankful to you right now
Viva Espana :)
Viva españa! Deus lo vult!
Viva Portugal!!!
TheDinisPT jajajajajajajajajajajajaja
@@TheDinisPT Portugal español!
I´ve taken the freedom to translate the entirety of the video, the description and the title to Spanish.
Such awesomeness cannot be exclusively for the English-speaking community!
Keep up the good work!
En español por favor, también Gracias.
Astra Ben not all heroes wear capes
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Thank you Age of Mythology thor.
That's why the Asturians say "Asturias is Spain, the rest is just reconquered land".
That's not due to mixing though, the Basques were never conquered, either. Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece have always been genetically more similar to the Middle East and North Africa than to Northern Europe.
Mateo G.de A you are wrong lmao, we have more northern blood than you think. These are the northerns that came to here : Indo-Europeans,Celts,Suebis,Alans,Vandals,Visigoths,French nobles and Englishes that came here to help us defend ourselves from Napoleon and many of them started lives here and married and had children.
You have no idea. Phenotype and genotype are diferent things.. Greek and spanish ended up looking "similar" just because both countries are around the same lattitude. Spain is mostly celt, if you look for dna maps, the spanish, french, british, portuguese and northen italians are the most related, then you start to get germanic dna past france, in big quantities. To the contrary of what the english has been saying, the original population of britain wasnt really removed. All these countries are basically of celt blood while east europe is germanic and slavic. In spain, You will find all kinds of "shades" all over spain, the "south" isnt any "darker", not really, it just happens they get more sun, so they get nice sunbaths. You should visit spain in winter, almost everyone looks like a ghost, paper white. Then the summer arrives and the ones who can afford the beach, get a tan. But this is not really that special from spanish people, even people from sweeden and norway tan, i have seen some of those, in spain, darker than moroccans hah.
@@Mateo-oq7ui That is false.
@@heavysaber9431 maybe its why the south is the most backwards,..
All fun and games till the mountains start speaking Iberian
The mountains would've spoken either a Celtic language or Latin.
And those mountainers are now protesting for independence 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Melso
Ok I see!
Your profile pic is great!
May I know how you found that!
The Reconquista was over Spain and Portugal
@@Catubrannos and Basque
Umayyads: Conquers nearly all of Spain
Pelagius: Covadonga it is
If this is the start of a Reconquista series then I'm ecstatic.
That would be just as lit as Jerusalem 1099.
We still more to go to conquer Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Jordon, Tunisia, Syria, Iraq and wipe out the marauders.
Reconquista was about as ugly as the Moorish invasion.
Jesus christ would be appaled seeing these disgusting comments. Blargh.
@Mrwutevah who cares?
Pelagius, The KING of the NORTH!!!
KING IN DA NORF !
King in the North!
king of Spain!
Hey, I heard that in a TV show once! I forget what it was called, but it was about a bunch of people playing a game, and whoever won got to sit on a throne and rules the lands...cant remember the name for the death of me though.
A Game of Chairs
Marching your troops into a narrow valley after announcing you are here. How could that possibly go wrong?
All the land is a narrow valley in Asturias, there isnt a plain in all the territorie.
@@BichoBull that’s really not true at all. I should know - I’m half Asturian. But most of the borders of the region are mountains, that is true
@@atlanticdragon4773 Man, im totally Asturian. Was born in Asturias and live in Asturias. The only flat land in Asturias is the coast line, and not all.
*I LOVE THESE KEEP GOING*
Fortnite sucks.....
The Moors may have won the first battle, but the fight for Iberia has only just begun!
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And it lasted 8 centuries!
Lol. 2020.
@@zorusiusprinsus6260 To be fair the last two were basically Castille finding it more profitable to milk Granada for tribute then conquering (and thus having to manage it) directly.
@@TheSunderingSea they tried but they lost
So they chose to take tribute
Yet another brilliant video !
YOU ARE HERE!
I love that they actually explain why The Visigothic Kingdom fell sooo quickly! Many battle videos just gloss over historic implications of said battles, and fewer still talk about how or why battles were significant. Good video, guys!
Muslims invade iberia
Kingdom of Asturias:
*COVADONGA IT IS!*
No, muslims invade Spania
@@tombellum6815 no, they invade the entire Iberian Peninsula (except Asturias)
@@pacorodriguez320 los Musulmanes invaden Spania, que ocupaba más o menos lo que hoy conocemos como península ibérica y que en aquella época era un Reino único visigodo autodenominado Spania (que obviamente deriva de la denominación de la provincia romana Hispania)
A Portugal lo reconquista el Reino de León y hasta la época de Alfonso X, es un Reino vasayo o tributario de León.
Curiosamente, cuando a finales del siglo XV los Reyes Católicos comienzan a denominar en sus documentos a la Unión de sus reinos como España, protesta el Rey de Portugal, porque esa denominación también incluiría a Portugal
@@pacorodriguez320 except Cantabria...
3:33 Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Pelagius the Asturian?
This is what I came to the comments section for.
+Small Moustache Man
I'll be honest mate, I hate you : it's 5am and you made me laugh so loud i just woke up the entire building....
Can someone explain?
It's a reference to Star Wars Episode III. The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise.
Oh my gosh. I just googled it and the reference is top notch hahah. Thank you.
You know you've got a good content creator when there's an overriding consensus amongst the fanbase that your content is absolutely top notch. Haven't seen a single bad comment yet, good video.
Too late. :(
do the entire reconquista...from 722AD to 1492AD
😨 but not Portugal !
😛 Porrugal is not spain !
Terror portugal is spaim
@@terror1234 Portugal is just little Spain to be honest
@@terror1234 No one said it was?
4:30 Asturians are Crazy
you're welcome
Thanks, even if it is 2 years late...
Thank you memet
true, I am one of them...
I just wanted to congratulate the animator of this channel, i watched other history channels who feather historical battles.
But i like these one the most :)
The narrator is also really good but in my opinion the animator is a bit of a underdog (unless it is the same person but that is not the point ;P)
OMG Reconquista series plzzz
Princess Theodora the Channel is about history, not about current affairs
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They wouldnt depress us with these videos if it wasnt to built up to a Reconquista series :)
hannibal barca like the original conquest of spain by the muslims wasn't a slaughter of christans amd jews... dude war and history. At least one side has stopped killing for god.
A video about the siege of Lisbon would make my day :)
Man. Coming back from 24h shift, eating breakfast and watching BazBattles - good morning!
¡Patria querida!
All the praises to you for stating that the Muslims conquered Asturias and put a governor ruling over it before being kicked out by Pelagius. I was not taught that in school had to learn about it from my own research!
Please never quit making these videos, I love the content you produce on this channel.
And I hope that one day you cover the viking raids on Lisbon, Seville and Cordoba during the reign of Abd-ar-Rahman II.
The narrator seems to be shockingly neutral and non-biased - I am quite shocked. Hell, he even mentioned how the Jizya levied on the Spanish got too high and the people rebelled
Weren't there Vikings left in North Africa that made some pickled fish juice? Or salted fish juice? I read about it years ago.
@@alexanderstrickland9036 They say Vikings even reached Constantinople from northern Europe through rivers , boy these guys went places.
They kind of remind me of Mongols.
@@elumiomerk4013 That's the interesting thing about history. A kingdom's borders only represents the physical boundaries of the realm and even those were more loose boundaries dictated by conquest rather then actual physical entities. It's people however went great distances, either as merchants, travellers, mercenaries or in exile/pilgrimage to many places, didn't cathage at one point employ Vikings as their most elite units? That idea made the world seem much more well travelled then just a school education could ever provide.
That and the 1st crusade honestly reminds me of most DnD groups I've been in. XD
@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 Thanks for the reply man. I wish I could somehow gather all the wonderful people I encounter in these youtube comments into some kind of forum. I am so hungry for intellectual conversation, the people around me either do not have such inclinations or do not possess a multi-faceted view of life.
Oh and about the first crusade, yes they seem like a disfunctional group of people who always make a jab at each other but..... who actually got things done.
I always look forward to a new video being uploaded! :)
i really like how you give context to each battle to help us understand its significance. very well constructed videos and lovely narration!
Once again a great video Baz, I also liked that you focused on the overall historical circumstance(s) leading to the battle itself - keep the uploads coming!
I love seeing that quality still means something on youtube, i have been here since 30k subscribers, and it is amazing how fast you have grown, and how the quality increases from episode to episode. Great job man, hope you reach 500k soon
Let's be honest, I love these videos, but we all come here to write "Deus Vult".
Primarch Roboute Guilliman
Yes I'll also write .. allah akbar
hannibal barca Begone Saracen!
Primarch Roboute Guilliman DEUS VULT
Deus Ackbar
Allah Vult
I like how the voice actor was reading the script through his monocle, and you could hear his top hat shifting across his foppish brow.
Like a sir!
Muslim leader attacking France: "infidelds! we are here to conquer you"
random local guys: "no matter how hard you try, you are going Tolose"
amazing joke!
Boom boom!
Miguel Secades The reason they attacked France is because the caliphate put an arab leader instead of tariq ibn zyad who was a berber. If it was for the berbers they would’ve never attack France.
Who cares...
Modern France is half muslim lol
@@SAADOFFICIAL436 about 10% actually...
Everytime i see new videos from this channel on my timeline, I'm getting hyped to play CK2 !
same
what? ck2 has no military strategy whatsoever, maybe if it was total war
Just imagine a mix of both... damn someone has to make it possible
Jordi, imagine the economics and politics of EU4, the dynastic considerations of CK2 and the battles of Total War. If something like that existed... Well, then I might as well quit my job.
Asturias is Spain's soul. Without Asturias, Spain can't be conceived
Brilliant channel! i love how the chasing healthy rectangle stops chasing the cracked, mess up rectangle. a great range of battles, easily drawing the viewer in, humour great, but very attuned. Thanks you Baz!
I have really been surprised with the quality of some youtube channels lately but yours gives the most consistently top notch videos in my opinion, keep it up bazza
My lord this was amazing
Thank you for this video! I went to Covadonga last summer after going to Cantabria!
Every video you guys just keep on improving and improving. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for chronicling this battle. I've been wanting to learn more about it for a long time.
Really rooted for Pelagius, never heard of him or this struggle before, thank you so much!!
One of my uni modules I'm studying is called clash of civilisations and we have just finished doing the invasion of visigothic Spain. We didn't have time to cover Pelagius in the seminar so this is a great and timely video! Thanks :)
I love when I see these videos pop up in my sub box. Great work and thanks for the slice of knowledge.
Always looking forward to these videos, great work!
Exceptional video. Thanks a lot for making it. Can't wait for the The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.
Great video
BAz I used to watch back when you had 20K subs, I'm so happy for your channels growth! Your videos have truly come into their own and you deserve the attention you're getting! Best of luck, and hope to watch many more!
Absolutely amazing. The zooming in and out of the map is incredibly well done.
Great video!! I love the research you have done on Spanish culture. "Patria Querida" is one of the most famous sayings in Asturias. Love the videos, keep up the good work :)
Asturias is Celtic land and always will be
@@deanfirnatine7814 ...Yeah? And?
Spanish traitor us descendants from swabians, Castella never was great as Portugal and lusitans around the world. They're until now, our nowadays.
@@deanfirnatine7814las Asturias son Ibericas ante de ser como usted dice Celtas
I hope you continue this and do a video on the reconquest of Spain!
I'd love to learn more about this side of history.
This channel is just amazing, and historically precise , keep doing
Thanks for making these. The clarity and comprehensive situational explanations are excellent. Always feel I've learned something. Fractal history is fascinating.
Biggest comeback in history! Fidem serva!
Comeback💀
@@AmeerMuawiyahASkinda
This win is the sole reason reconquesta worked properly
Viva la reconquista !!!!
You’re really underrated, I love you video! Keep it up!
You are the best BazBattles ! thank you
I would like to applaud this animated history channel that gives me more interesting information then all my other school lessons combined.
History is my life and I am grateful for this.
Super great video! Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing .
astuuuurias patria queridaaaaa! astuuuuurias de mis amoooreeeeesss! quien estuviera en asturiaaaaas! en tooooodas las ocasioneeees!
que horrible letra
IN HOC SIGNO VINCES
magnificent job :) keep it up
Great series! Keep it up! One of my favorite channels.
I feel as if I was there in a previous life, and took part in this glorious victory!!
Reconquista series ? I say Yes!
_P.S. The __*__U_*_ after a *__Q_*_ in Spanish is silent, therefore it's pronounced "ReconKista". (Just saying in case you're going to use the word in the future)._
Not just spanish. Portuguese and Catalan follow the same rule
So nobody actually says reconquista, spelling the u. Interesting...
Paguo Catalan... you fucking triggered this guy
this. as a brazilian i cannot cringe enough at his pronunciation. sounds more like a drunk american trying and failing to speak portuguese than anything ever related to spanish
It's the same in french.
Also these guys apparently suck at pronouncing things correctly. They mispronounce Umayyad, Byzantine, and something else in their Alexander the Great series that I can't remember
Nice work as usual gang!
Great as always. Keep on good work!!!
Man @BazBattles you are a breath of fresh air in YT when speaking about historical battles.. I would definitely support you if I wasn't a student broke af xD
Kudos!!
Just borrow from the Lannisters :p
These animations are superb
Another great video Baz! I'm from Brazil and i never miss your great work! Hope you will cover more battles from the "Reconquista"!!
Watched so many of these Baz that I've finally taken the plunge!You're in mate,cheers! :-) :-)
How interesting. This period in history is quite intriguing. I would love to know more about it.
I believe the coments are going to be very calm, nice and respectful of other cultures.
I believe that you're a big bender
lol :D
DOWN WITH ISLAM
Richard Nixon you seem to forget that this was the middle ages. Paying the Jizya was a pretty good deal at the time. They also didn't have to serve in the military or pay the zakat tax.
There is no other group of people more respectful and welcome than modern europeans. Generaly speaking. The governments have snached the media's balls.
Another short good material with a great level of narration - thank you.
Excellent -- always the mountain people that save the day
Keep them coming BAZ, you guys do a fantastic job of bringing history back to being cool and very easy to follow. I hope you guys or gals are not being demonetized because that would be so wrong.
Mi sangre Visigodo Pelayo Rey de Asturias, que orgullo.
Y quien te dice que tienes sangre visigoda tambien puedes tener sangre pura Iberica . Igual que PELAYO
Tambien podia tener sangre pura Iberica o visigoda a lo mejor celta .Saludos d' un lusitaniano Hispanico😅
Los iberos no estaban en Asturias. Era tierra celta, los iberos estaban en el levante. En Asturias había celtas y después suevos y godos.
i like how you show the geographic context with the maps.
Very good work.
its amazing how much information can be given in just an 8 min video. A delightful experience
Hey this time the arabic writing was correct
Thank you for spending the time on it
what does it say?
Roki Vulović crazy of Asturias
It's so wrong to see Muslims in Yellow and Spain in Green 😂
looks like a desert expanding all over the peninsula
Exactly; comparing to other parts of the world, the best most civilised era of this region was under Islam control (8 centuries)
I think he means it because Green is the Color of Islam, but here is depicted as the color of Christians troops
Eu4.exe has stopped working
Ck2 i know.
Thanks for this. A long-awaited video for me.
A Reconquista series? I am thrilled!
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Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa please !!!!
También la de Cartagena de Indias
@@felipeordonez2883 El que hace los vídeos creo que es británico lo veo jodido.. jajaja
Simply Awesome!
Awesome video! Important content
4:30 crazy astorias
6:28 trap
Fucking spoilers dude.
aw shit your right
Battle of Covagonga, battle of vienna, and battle of tours, thx to the man that fought there our european culture still exists
Flying Berserker covadonga wasn't significant for the rest of europe.
At Tours, the caliphate was already way overstreched and their tide of conquest had already slowed down significantly.
At vienna, it could be argued that the Ottomans were already doomed to decline, and the shock of vienna being taken would cause larger parts of europe to form a coalition.
And it is quite obvious that you have an historical bias. There is a reason all conquests eventually grind to a halt
But if you want to look at a time where europe quite possibly was "saved"
it was after the mongol crushing of polish and hungarian armies in 1242, when Great Khan Ögedai died and the mongols went back into the steppe.
Same thing might have saved the muslims a year after the siege of Baghdad (1258), when Khan Möngke died and the same thing happened.
Goose Hamsterson they would be stopped by other european powers. The terrain is undesirable for their tactics, rolling hills, heavily forested and such
+Syed Ahmed
"Tours, you do understand that it has more to do with the indiscipline in the Muslim army rather than Frankish prowess" it's interesting how you try to excuse that defeat while remaining silent about the visigothic betrayal at guadalete; the only thing that kept the umayyads from getting crushed and driven out of iberia before conquering anything...
Aahah the north never loses... because they have the higher grown I am from Iberia the southern is eseay to conquer because it´s just plains and muslims are all about cavalary and speed, but if they come to the north they get crushed in the mountains, we dominated these big ass stones ;D
And the Battle of Navas de Tolosa. There the united Christian Kingdoms of Spain defeated a second and bigger muslim invasion.
Great Video.
I'm hoping an a soon video about the Reconquista!
Great video! really well done! Thank you! 💪💯
Covadonga is the stepping stone for reconquista.
This is similar to what happened with Montenegro under the Ottoman conquest. Nobles and people from all parts of the Balkans fled to this mountain kingdom. Montenegro was never conquered or defeated. This could be an interesting topic for a video.
This makes no difference though. What you say is just natural. Conquerers occupy the main administrative centres and exert their power onto the provinces. But in the course of 700 years there was a constant flow of Arab soldiers, merchants, scientists, artists and scholars to Al Andalus, which inevitably changed the whole culture.
I know this is a touchy topic for Spaniards, but I would have to disagree. Asturias and Leon did the Reconquista centuries later. Genetics prove otherwise too, so does Spanish language and more like 2000-3000 fenomenal monuments, culture, cuisine and what have you. Muslims would marry several women and they were not brought in from Saudi Arabia ... Have seen enough Northerners that look like Moors. It is one of those national myths that makes no sense nor is supported by the facts.
As a historian you should know other historians that take the opposite stance. I have seen documentaries examining old historical records arguing the opposite of what you say. To claim that after 700 years of Arab rule there is not a drop of Arab blood in Spanish genes is absurd and delusioanal. And yes, I know enough Moroccans, both Berbers, mixed and very white Arabs. But I also know plenty of Spaniards from all parts of Spain. Some are very white, others so dark and with such facial features that everyone in North Africa would mistake them for locals. What you say about the North-South divide in Al-Andalus may be true, but it seems exaggerated to the extent that you guys create a national myth of ethnic and racial purity. You can go as far back as the Romans, Carthaginians, Greeks and Phoenicians. They still made the link btw Spain and North Africa Middle East before the Arabs... Here's a better argument: Muslim invasion of Spain was actually dominated by Vandals from North Africa who converted to Islam, but were still white caucasoids and hence, they left a genetic marker, but it still the same as their Visigothic cousins ... LOL
Btw "muslim blood" ... as a historian you should know that there is no such thing.
@@cosmopolitanbay9508 I mean, simply by looking at where the Visigoths originated from it's pretty easy to see that the modern Spaniard is heavily mixed with Berbers and Arabs. The Visigoths originally came from Scandinavia but their looks, the Spanish culture and the Spanish language all differ from Scandinavia to the point of no resemblance.
Great work! Thank you for this, I'd love to see even older documentary on Iberia, please..
This is what i wanted out of the history channel, this is great. thank you!