Honestly the most overlooked part of Portuguese history, the suebic kingdom layed the foundations for the County of Portugal by increasing the relevance of Bracara Augusta and Portus Cale, centralizing political and religious power. The spaniards pay a lot of respect to their visigothic predecessors, its about time Portugal does the same with the Suebi.
I'm portuguese and I got recommended this video for some reason but I got better things to do than to "pay respect" to my predecessors. I'd rather pay respect to my current-cessors :D
I once made a point in another video on how the Suebians can safely be considered the first people to speak portuguese, as some of the inovations that are unique to the portuguese language (as far as romance languages go), namely the way that the days of the week are called, were first adopted by the people living in the diocese of Braga at the 6th century, which, if I'm not mistaken, at that point encompassed the entirety of the Suevic kingdom
I sometimes call us Spaniard and Spanish speakers as "Godos" and the Portuguese as "Suebos/Suevos" instead of the typical Hispano-Luso haha Our germanic nicknames
The Suebi are one of the most undercovered kingdoms in Iberia, and especially after the post-Roman period, great to see a video on this level of detail and visuals / music made from one of the greatest late-Antiquity creators.
A group of Suebi/Suevi crossed the Mediterranean into North Africa, gone to Carthage And when Justinian sent Belisarius who defeated Geleric the Vandal king of Carthage many Vandals and some Suebi fled to the Mountains of then Numidia and the région became known Sueva- Zveva and Zweva. Currently Kabylia....a whole clan from the Kabylian Tribe is still called Zweva and Zwewa. Bringing the last name Zwewi/Suevi widespread from Kabylia to Northern Tunisia . Zwewis are white Blue eyed and red hair ..and they are very phenotypically distinct even from other white North Africans. It is just a genetica héritage they passed even when they married Arabs or Turks especially in The Town of Bizerta... Northern Tunisia.
@@Brian-mt5qk I don't have much but try French 19th century research ....and obviously German ones they do have unfortunately I don't read German...thé région of Zwewa IS Kabylia ...part of ex Numidia.....what really reinfirces that theory IS part legend part History and definitely the phénotype those people do look out of place. Tarek ben ziad married allegedly a wisigoth woman and hé was negotiating with Wisigoths in Spain ....so they either spoke latin or Germanic. Hé was sent in reconnaissance of thé région he ended UP conquéring....thus hé knew their fighting techniques...hé was either one of them or a vandal
Thanks for sharing light on this brother. Most only focus on the visigoths. The artistic style is very pleasant to the eye and the narration is easy to follow. Keep going!
Portugal was built from Braga, wish shows the importance of our Swabian dna. Every people wanted to live here because even during the coldest winters, oranges grew in january, so there wasnt the thousands of famines who invaded Europe. The swabians helped Portugal to be independent. Thank you very much.
Citrus fruits were brought by the moors to Iberia. The foundation of Modern Portugal was established by the first Portuguese king Alfonso in the 1100’s. The suebi were long gone as an ethnic group by the first millennium!
Oranges are an example, the weather in Iberia allowed the survival of cereals when they were often destroyed at north. Its just a question of stiudying the history of famines in Europe.
Great Video! I would love to see similar videos done on other Germanic tribes, like the Ostrogoths in particular. From their settlement in Pannonia to their acquisition of Italy their timeline is very obscure. Especially when looking on maps for dates like 476 CE and still seeing them settled in Pannonia even though Theodoric and his father had likely taken the bulk of the Ostrogoths into the Eastern Roman Empire in 473 CE.
Finally a video on the Suebi, they are one of the most if not the MOST underrated barbarian kingdom of Post-Roman Europe. This is the first real video on the Suebis. I have so many questions to ask thou, lol
@@ancientsight anyway, I had some questions -Where can I find more informations on the wars between Gallaecians and suevis? -In what language did the Gallaecian Celtiberian and suebi spoke? -What was the territories held by the Gallaecians during suebi control? Hope this time the comment doesn't disapear
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 For information about the Suebi and Gallaecian wars, go first look for the work of Hydatius. You also MAY find information from the works of Isodore of Seville and Gregory of Tours. For your two other questions, I do not know About the comments, that's unfortunate. I did not notice any comments disapearing myself. However I know TH-cam tends to automatically filter out some comments from me.
@@ancientsight Thank you so much sir. I loved that video becase before viewing it seems like a cloud filled with mysteries, we tend to learn a lot from general knwledge but these cloudy parts, barely no one mentions it. I hope you could continue the good work. I am looking for channel that talks more about Celtiberians and Hispano-Celts as they are so much underrated And for the comment disapearing phenomenon i wonder if its just a bug. Or if my comments are like the Ninth Legio Hispana and have to disapear haha
Well made video concerning the history of a small but interesting ancient Iberian kingdom! Not a whole lot of history related channels like yours out there!
This is a great video to watch and serves as a good prelude to a CK3 867 Fates of Iberia Start . Learned a lot: the political and religious landscape makes much more sense now. Thanks and subscribed.
This is an amazing video, and quite a lot of content and information presented, with a very appealing map, for such an obscure period in time of a mysterious Germanic tribe in Hispania
Excellent work. I've never seen this level of detail about the Iberian Germanic tribes. Everything I've seen about this period of time in Iberia is usually very vague, short of text books.
That’s why the Spanish and Portuguese languages are related but different! Spanish was influenced by the Visigoths and Portuguese was influenced by the Suebes! Thank you!
Could it be that all these "sh" sounds in the Portuguese language are a heritage of the Suebi? E.g. Portuguese: e"sh"ação, Spanish: estación, just to name one example. The many "sh" sounds are a prominent feature of the Swabian dialect in the southwest of Germany.
All Iberian regional languages were different…, the only ones that survived were Castilian, Catalan ( which came from south west France), and Portuguese.
Why so many peoples from North Europe went to Iberia? GERMANIC FAMINES -Famines affected all Germany areas for many times. In a regular way existed great famines especially from 1315/17 until the worst famine of 1845/48. The Volga Germans experienced periodic famines brought about by both natural and man-made causes. FAMINES IN NORTH EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL AGE Famines caused by crop failures and poor crop years were an ever present danger in medieval Europe. It was often not possible to relieve a famine in one area by importing grain from another area as the difficulty of overland transportation caused the price of grain to double for each 50 miles it was transported. One study concluded that famines in Europe occurred on an average every 20 years between the years 750 and 950. The principal causes were extreme weather and climatic anomalies which reduced agriculture production. Warfare was not found to be a major cause of famine. A study of crop failures in Winchester, England from 1232 to 1349 found that harvest failure occurred an average of every 12 years for wheat and every 8 years for barley and oats. Localized famine may have occurred in years in which one or more crops failed. Weather was again identified as the chief cause. Climatic change may have played a part as the Little Ice Age may have begun between 1275 and 1300 with a consequent shortening of the growing season. Warfare was apparently responsible for a major famine in Hungary from 1243 to 1245. These were the years in the aftermath of the Mongol invasion and widespread destruction. Twenty to fifty percent of the population of Hungary is estimated to have died of hunger and war. The best known and most extensive famine of the Middle Ages was the Great Famine of 1315-1317 (which actually persisted to 1322) that affected 30 million people in northern Europe, of whom five to ten percent died. The famine came near the end of three centuries of growth in population and prosperity. The causes were "severe winters and rainy springs, summers and falls." Yields of crops fell by one-third or one-fourth and draft animals died in large numbers. The Black Death of 1347-1352 was more lethal, but the Great Famine was the worst natural catastrophe of the later Middle Ages. - In Iberia, there was no such famines as in North Europe, because the weather was much better, warm temperature , long day light, mild winters, without the frozens, ice, snow and hard cold winds of the North and because of the Arab Agricultural Revolution, the Arab Muslim rulers of much of Al Andalus (8th through the 15th centuries) introduced or popularized a large number of new crops and new agricultural technology into the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The crops introduced by the Arabs included sugar cane, rice, hard wheat (durum), citrus, cotton, and figs. Many of these crops required sophisticated methods of irrigation, water management, and "agricultural technologies such as crop rotation, management of pests, and fertilizing crops by natural means." During many famines in North Europe, Portugal exported grains, meat, olive oil, wine, sardine and several other products to England and several other European countries who were usually hard affected by these famines.
The Germanics famines made many millions of Germans abandomned their regions and look for better lands. Unfortunately some old academics still try to exclude from history the hardest moments of Germany history snd that will make people never to understand who they really are, because it is in the moments of dificulty that one molds his character.
Hahaha Three of my grandparents are from Galicia (two from southern Galicia) and the fouth was from Leon. Finally it seems that the internet has discovered the ancient Suebian migration to Iberia. They set up a kingdom there and stayed. They did leave us kings with funny names and of course their genes.
Excellent video. Thanks for your work. From this content and what is known, I'm guessing northwest Iberia remained in Visigoth control after the fall of the Suebi for only around 100 years before the Moors invaded? This means that, in that particular area, the Suebi occupation was longer and probably had more influence in local language and culture than the Visigoth. Interesting. People should dig deeper the connection between the Suebi and the portuguese/galician.
This successor Kingdom was also called “Gallaecian Kingdom” im a bit disapointed he failed to mention it. Surely it was to make the last Celtiberian tribes feel part of this Kingdom, what better way to welcome your former enemies as to name a nation after their name? 🤔
The Portucalensis County existed since 868 AD, but much before that the people and the region was united and fought the Romans as no one else did. The Celts Bracari were described by Roman and Greek writers. If we just consider a country as it is today, so Germany didnt exist before the end of the 19th century.
Germany clearly existed as a particular country at least since the 11th century. Portugal began its existence around the same time as a county of Galicia. There was no Portugal before that...
Yes in Minho there are much more Blondes. Portuguese Phenotype The physical anthropology of the Portuguese people. Blonde hair is the type of hair corresponding to an unequal sexual figure, where female individuals imply a greater emphasis on the opposite of the male sex. This hair class accounts for 17.75% of males and 23.23% of females. The average percentage of blonde hair in the general population is therefore 20%. Blondes exist all over the country. But from a general point of view, the entire mountainous region of the north of the Tagus, with the exception of the coast and the mouth of the Douro, is where the population is significantly blonde. The southern provinces - Extremadura, Alentejo and Algarve, are generally comparatively micrometric. By districts, the northern provinces are significantly blonde in the districts of Viseu, Guarda, Braga, Bragança and Viana do Castelo. In the southern and coastal region of the country, small differences are noted in Faro, Lisbon, Santarém, Coimbra, Évora, Portalegre and Beja, respectively. In short, the country is heterogeneous when it comes to the distribution of blonde hair. On the Beirão plateau, in the mountains of Trás-os-Montes and mainland Minho, is where the population is significantly blonde. In the coastal regions and plains of Alentejo there is already a relatively small percentage of this type of hair. The adjacent islands still show an equally vulgar percentage, where only the district of Angra do Heroísmo has another excess of blonde hair.
@@miltonbates6425Suebi (Suevi) and Vandals. Forgot the and. Like Gaiseric was Siling Vandal. Then you have Asdings Vandals or Astingi. Just forgot the and. 😂
Great to hear you fixed your pronunciation of Suebi for this video. Otherwise, I was already a big fan of your videos. There's otherwise not much good coverage of late antiquity on TH-cam!
I don't know why this was suggested to me, but damn, that was detailed! I always wonder about those peoples who swept across Europe, had their time, and then disappeared.
Joana Schenker the beautiful Luso Swabian girl was Bodyboard World Champion! She was born on October 1987 in the beautiful Costa Vicentina, Algarve. She is the oldest daughter of four girls, her German parents live in Portugal, where they raise the family in a natural and relaxed environment. th-cam.com/video/OtiqK_IGHTg/w-d-xo.html
Question: When Hermenegild rebelled against his father, was he controlling some sort of territory during his revolt. I am just a little confused because the video seemingly shows his controlling much of the south-west of the peninsula.
@@DonPedromanthem too. I noticed they tend to look British/Irish or like... i dunno, Mediterranean of some kind. funny enough, my Argentinean grandma who's fully Galician has red hair. her dad's a blonde and her mom, think a brunette.
Yes, and they have even imported their sigmatism (language-tic) with them. Portugese sounds to me like the Schwäbisch- German dialect of Spanish: Many "sh"- sounds where standard German and Spanish have "s".😉
Portugal was less influenced by the Suebi than Galicia actually was. Only 30% of Portugal was part of the Suebian Kingdom, whereas the rest of the Suebi was mainly today’s Galicia and Leon. By contrary, Portugal was mainly of Lusitanian influence (post roman Lusitania), and was subject to several influences of Visigoths mainly. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reino_suevo
Idk if I commented before, but it's always an iffy sight to see "Wikipedia" listed as a source. It would be better to list what they cite as a source (and verify that source if it's actually saying what the article says).
Ah, the Suebi, a tribe whose history with Rome dates to the Late Republic. With how frequently the tribes of Germania seemed to subsume one another over the centuries, seeing them establish their own kingdom alongside relative newcomers like the Goths and Vandals is a bit surreal.
and we're still here today, in Württemberg and Western Bavaria. Also the Swabians of Baden, Alsace, and Switzerland broke away in the Swabian War of 1499 and ditched the name, but they're also modern descendants of the OG Suebi
@@jensboettiger5286 hardly can call it "descendants", germanic tribal connections are hardly tracable. only by name of regions, but that does not affect who lives there
@@SkyForceOne2 They are easily traceable by the simple fact that they have never stopped calling themselves by what they are to this day, same as the Saxons and Franks. There is no guess work involved. I don't know why you imagine that the population of Suebi who settled the region magically disappeared and left behind no descrndants to carry on their bloodline with anyone who might have migrated in later, but its a very unlikely hypothesis that would require actual magic to be true
@@jensboettiger5286 i am not talking about "no traces", but the admixture is vastly different than what it was back then. alot of people going in and out of these lands
@@ancientsight Maybe is because some Spaniard call it like that in Spanish (Castillian). Despite in Galician/Portuguese (the local language) is Ourense, as well the official name of the town for the Spanish State ("Orense" is not recognised in any legal document).
Spain used to be German and also Celtic.. it fell to Islam who erased a lot of the history... I feel a lot of Spainish people do not have family trees going back very far because of it.. They even had tp pay a tax for not being Muslim. My actual tree goes back to the King of the Suebi.. 2 of them as a matter of fact.. I am directly releated..
Many typical Spanish surnames are Visigothic in origin. Fernandez, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Martinez, Gonzalez, Alvarez , Gomez ect.. Spaniards and Portuguese also bring up our Celtic aka Celtiberian ancestors but forget the Germanic tribes that entered Hispania, not just the Visigoths but the Suebi, Buri, Vandals, Alans.. As a Spaniard of Galician heritage, today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation. (Instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD, when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. 🇪🇸 (Except for the Kingdom of Portugal 🇵🇹 because they're special but I still love them.) Muslims like to brag how they "ruled Iberia for 800 years. " But what they fail to mention is that the Reconquista pretty much started straight away. And that the tiny Christian Kingdoms of the North were not part of Al Andalus. They also fail to mention that by the 12th century (1100s) half of Hispania was back in Indo European Christian hands. And by the mid 13th century 96% of Hispania had been reconquered. They fail to mention that the islamic kingdom of Granada was allowed to remain as long as they paid tribute to the Kingdom of Castile. Until they made the mistake of attacking a Christian settlement in the late 15th century. Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West... *Reconquista II Intensifies* DEUS VULT!
What are you talking about, spain was scientifically and culturally thriving under islamic rule. Many many muslim scientists are from Spain. And the relationship between the native spaniards and muslims was good.
It was a doctrine of christianity elaborated after the Council of Chaledon (and the one from which modern Roman Apostholic and Greek Orthodox Christianity comes). U could say it was the oficial Roman doctrine in contrast with others as Miaphisiste, Arrian, Syriac, etc.
@@migueldeuna3261 The only Christian Catholic ritual authorized by the Vatican to to be different from the Roman Catholic is the Braga Rite! Because the church of Braga was more Important than Rome in the 6th century AD. In part thanks the work of St Martin of Braga.
@@davidaxelos4678Most famous Lusatian Serbs are: Nietzsche, Laibnitz, Fichte, Martin Luther... and in Balkan Serbia its Pavle Jurišić Sturm who came to fight for Serbs in liberation wars
@@alexandartheserb7861 All You mentioned were 1-5% Neanderthal. You must be 100 Klingon, though...🤣 Wh, not claim Portugal's Fernando Pesoa for Serbia?
Have you noticed the surprising morpheme-to-morpheme and phoneme-to-phoneme similarity of such ethnonyms as SUAVI/SCHWABEN (Germans) < SKLAVI/SKLAVENI (Slavs)? th-cam.com/video/lfdx_q9b04k/w-d-xo.html
Good video, although the insistance on the term "Calchedonian christianity" surely is a disservice to the viewer from the overall situation of Christian Church.
Thanks for this video I am from Braga! :D My history teacher many times said the reason why there´s so many blonde people in the north of Portugal is probably due to Germanic invasions :D
That's probably not the main reason. Their genes are way too diluted. For instance Northern Portugal and Galicia have the highest amount of northafrican in the whole of Iberia.
@@Alejojojo6 I am from Northern Portugal and I have no Nothern African DNA, I have Welsh,Irish,Scottish DNA, Holland-NorthWestern Germany, Balkan, Eastern European and ofc Iberian.
I think that Suebi are Serbs ( Srbi on serbian language). I heart "Svebi" in this video, lowercase letter v is very similar lowercase letter r. There is the river Ibar in Serbia. We, in Serbia say for Portugal, Portugalija. Two words: porta, which means the main door or entrance and galija which means big ship.
The map would be a lot more informative if the chosen colors weren't literally the worst - the creator's selected shades of red and green couldn't be less distinguishable, even for people with some green cones. The content seems decent, but the map is useless for viewers without perfect color vision. I can only imagine how annoying it must be for dichromats. Please look up colorblindness and learn how color vision works so you can produce content that's accessible to everyone instead of only full trichromats.
The area of Aqua Flavie from where i came from {about 30km to the east} should be difficult to take due to its geographical psositon and the river in the middle.One could defend the are with a few well trained men.Today the place is rot with ''democratic'' corrupt thugs.
They were very successful ravagers, by the account of a seventh-century traveler referenced by Gibbon destroying every town and city in Hispania, virtually obliterating centuries of civilized development and reducing the population by at least half. Not the kind of legacy to be celebrated, but observed and reviewed nonetheless.
Honestly the most overlooked part of Portuguese history, the suebic kingdom layed the foundations for the County of Portugal by increasing the relevance of Bracara Augusta and Portus Cale, centralizing political and religious power. The spaniards pay a lot of respect to their visigothic predecessors, its about time Portugal does the same with the Suebi.
Good take
I'm portuguese and I got recommended this video for some reason but I got better things to do than to "pay respect" to my predecessors. I'd rather pay respect to my current-cessors :D
I once made a point in another video on how the Suebians can safely be considered the first people to speak portuguese, as some of the inovations that are unique to the portuguese language (as far as romance languages go), namely the way that the days of the week are called, were first adopted by the people living in the diocese of Braga at the 6th century, which, if I'm not mistaken, at that point encompassed the entirety of the Suevic kingdom
I sometimes call us Spaniard and Spanish speakers as "Godos" and the Portuguese as "Suebos/Suevos" instead of the typical Hispano-Luso haha
Our germanic nicknames
man you Portuguese and spaniards don't look European or Germanic lmao. you guys All look like Arabs and have brown or tan skin.
As a Portuguese man, thank you very much for this video. Not enough people mention the Suebians.
I agree, it had to be done
Suebians are Serbians from elba river!!!!
@@ancientsightyou must to do cower for Suebians/Wite Serbs/Serby from Elba riverr!!!Portugise people is part of serbian family 😉
th-cam.com/video/7hYu7UM0B40/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7_2TayluXPpoN2bV. Suebians/Serbs
@@milosmiletic970 the most ridiculous claim I ever heard 😂
The Suebi are one of the most undercovered kingdoms in Iberia, and especially after the post-Roman period, great to see a video on this level of detail and visuals / music made from one of the greatest late-Antiquity creators.
Oh they mixed with the locals and even do it today, my aunt is German from Stutgart.
A group of Suebi/Suevi crossed the Mediterranean into North Africa, gone to Carthage And when Justinian sent Belisarius who defeated Geleric the Vandal king of Carthage many Vandals and some Suebi fled to the Mountains of then Numidia and the région became known Sueva- Zveva and Zweva.
Currently Kabylia....a whole clan from the Kabylian Tribe is still called Zweva and Zwewa.
Bringing the last name Zwewi/Suevi widespread from Kabylia to Northern Tunisia .
Zwewis are white Blue eyed and red hair ..and they are very phenotypically distinct even from other white North Africans.
It is just a genetica héritage they passed even when they married Arabs or Turks especially in The Town of Bizerta... Northern Tunisia.
I shall have to visit Bizerte to meet our Swabian cousins 🙃
Can you recommend any sources or further info about the link between the Suebi and Zwewi?
@@Brian-mt5qk I don't have much but try French 19th century research ....and obviously German ones they do have unfortunately I don't read German...thé région of Zwewa IS Kabylia ...part of ex Numidia.....what really reinfirces that theory IS part legend part History and definitely the phénotype those people do look out of place.
Tarek ben ziad married allegedly a wisigoth woman and hé was negotiating with Wisigoths in Spain ....so they either spoke latin or Germanic.
Hé was sent in reconnaissance of thé région he ended UP conquéring....thus hé knew their fighting techniques...hé was either one of them or a vandal
@@Brian-mt5qk th-cam.com/users/shorts0hRuWry7R_c?si=XDT5L5X7UlDQsvEt that girl IS an évidence from Zwewa Algeria...living proof
@@AntjeRoestenburg th-cam.com/users/shorts0hRuWry7R_c?si=XDT5L5X7UlDQsvEt an algerian Zwewa girl...trying to be funny
Wow awesome video, great editing, you deserve way more subscribers my guy!
Thank you !
An episode on the Briton-Breton migrations to Galicia would be interesting.
Thanks for sharing light on this brother. Most only focus on the visigoths. The artistic style is very pleasant to the eye and the narration is easy to follow. Keep going!
Portugal was built from Braga, wish shows the importance of our Swabian dna. Every people wanted to live here because even during the coldest winters, oranges grew in january, so there wasnt the thousands of famines who invaded Europe. The swabians helped Portugal to be independent. Thank you very much.
And the orange Julius was born
Citrus fruits were brought by the moors to Iberia. The foundation of Modern Portugal was established by the first Portuguese king Alfonso in the 1100’s. The suebi were long gone as an ethnic group by the first millennium!
Tens fome?
Come laranjas 😊
@@Slo-rydeIndeed. 1143. Afonso Henriques, first King, son of Urraca, Queen of León 🦁 kingdom.
Oranges are an example, the weather in Iberia allowed the survival of cereals when they were often destroyed at north. Its just a question of stiudying the history of famines in Europe.
Great Video! I would love to see similar videos done on other Germanic tribes, like the Ostrogoths in particular. From their settlement in Pannonia to their acquisition of Italy their timeline is very obscure. Especially when looking on maps for dates like 476 CE and still seeing them settled in Pannonia even though Theodoric and his father had likely taken the bulk of the Ostrogoths into the Eastern Roman Empire in 473 CE.
Yes, the Ostrogtohs are on the radar
@@ancientsight For a moment I thought you were the same guy as "Maiorianus" (for the voice)
They werent germans. Kings names are same as polabian serbians who are call be west Sorbs. They are living in germany but arent germanic.
Finally another video from Ancient Sight! Keep em coming please.
Of course !
Finally a video on the Suebi, they are one of the most if not the MOST underrated barbarian kingdom of Post-Roman Europe.
This is the first real video on the Suebis.
I have so many questions to ask thou, lol
Go ahead !
@@ancientsight
Sometimes my comments disapear, I have no idea why its recent
@@ancientsight anyway, I had some questions
-Where can I find more informations on the wars between Gallaecians and suevis?
-In what language did the Gallaecian Celtiberian and suebi spoke?
-What was the territories held by the Gallaecians during suebi control?
Hope this time the comment doesn't disapear
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
For information about the Suebi and Gallaecian wars, go first look for the work of Hydatius. You also MAY find information from the works of Isodore of Seville and Gregory of Tours. For your two other questions, I do not know
About the comments, that's unfortunate. I did not notice any comments disapearing myself. However I know TH-cam tends to automatically filter out some comments from me.
@@ancientsight Thank you so much sir. I loved that video becase before viewing it seems like a cloud filled with mysteries, we tend to learn a lot from general knwledge but these cloudy parts, barely no one mentions it. I hope you could continue the good work. I am looking for channel that talks more about Celtiberians and Hispano-Celts as they are so much underrated
And for the comment disapearing phenomenon i wonder if its just a bug. Or if my comments are like the Ninth Legio Hispana and have to disapear haha
Well made video concerning the history of a small but interesting ancient Iberian kingdom! Not a whole lot of history related channels like yours out there!
Great video! I have been looking for something like this for a long time.
This is a great video to watch and serves as a good prelude to a CK3 867 Fates of Iberia Start . Learned a lot: the political and religious landscape makes much more sense now. Thanks and subscribed.
I will one day make the same video for the Visigoths as well
Fantastic presentation. You make it so easy to track and follow how these regions changed hands over time. Thank you
Good video! Not many are interested in the Suevian Kingdom when compared to the Visigoths but they're also interesting.
Kinda cool to see the slow transfer from the the late Roman Empire into the early middle dark ages
This is an amazing video, and quite a lot of content and information presented, with a very appealing map, for such an obscure period in time of a mysterious Germanic tribe in Hispania
Did you know that germanic presence in Hispania goes back to pre-roman times?
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 No, I didn't
Excellent work. I've never seen this level of detail about the Iberian Germanic tribes. Everything I've seen about this period of time in Iberia is usually very vague, short of text books.
Well stay tuned because more is coming!
The lands northeast of Braga (Bracara) are still called Terras de Bouro ( The Buri Lands).
I've been waiting for so long... finally
Nice! I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these stand alone videos
Great ! I Have many ideas for such episodes but the main focus will remain the Eastern Rome series but I have
Outstanding video, well done
Thank you very much for this interesting and informative video. You did an excellent job and I look forward to more of your videos.
Thanks man this means a lot
That’s why the Spanish and Portuguese languages are related but different! Spanish was influenced by the Visigoths and Portuguese was influenced by the Suebes! Thank you!
Could it be that all these "sh" sounds in the Portuguese language are a heritage of the Suebi? E.g. Portuguese: e"sh"ação, Spanish: estación, just to name one example.
The many "sh" sounds are a prominent feature of the Swabian dialect in the southwest of Germany.
@@magmalin Maybe, Portuguese language have a lot of Russian an Ukrainian sounds, don't know if there is a connection there. PT
All Iberian regional languages were different…, the only ones that survived were Castilian, Catalan ( which came from south west France), and Portuguese.
te dejas el valenciano que no es catalan
@@magmalinExactly, that's what I think.
"Portugese ish ze Schwäbisch of Spanish"😉
Why so many peoples from North Europe went to Iberia?
GERMANIC FAMINES -Famines affected all Germany areas for many times. In a regular way existed great famines especially from 1315/17 until the worst famine of 1845/48.
The Volga Germans experienced periodic famines brought about by both natural and man-made causes.
FAMINES IN NORTH EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL AGE
Famines caused by crop failures and poor crop years were an ever present danger in medieval Europe. It was often not possible to relieve a famine in one area by importing grain from another area as the difficulty of overland transportation caused the price of grain to double for each 50 miles it was transported.
One study concluded that famines in Europe occurred on an average every 20 years between the years 750 and 950. The principal causes were extreme weather and climatic anomalies which reduced agriculture production. Warfare was not found to be a major cause of famine. A study of crop failures in Winchester, England from 1232 to 1349 found that harvest failure occurred an average of every 12 years for wheat and every 8 years for barley and oats. Localized famine may have occurred in years in which one or more crops failed. Weather was again identified as the chief cause. Climatic change may have played a part as the Little Ice Age may have begun between 1275 and 1300 with a consequent shortening of the growing season.
Warfare was apparently responsible for a major famine in Hungary from 1243 to 1245. These were the years in the aftermath of the Mongol invasion and widespread destruction. Twenty to fifty percent of the population of Hungary is estimated to have died of hunger and war.
The best known and most extensive famine of the Middle Ages was the Great Famine of 1315-1317 (which actually persisted to 1322) that affected 30 million people in northern Europe, of whom five to ten percent died. The famine came near the end of three centuries of growth in population and prosperity. The causes were "severe winters and rainy springs, summers and falls." Yields of crops fell by one-third or one-fourth and draft animals died in large numbers. The Black Death of 1347-1352 was more lethal, but the Great Famine was the worst natural catastrophe of the later Middle Ages.
- In Iberia, there was no such famines as in North Europe, because the weather was much better, warm temperature , long day light, mild winters, without the frozens, ice, snow and hard cold winds of the North and because of the Arab Agricultural Revolution, the Arab Muslim rulers of much of Al Andalus (8th through the 15th centuries) introduced or popularized a large number of new crops and new agricultural technology into the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The crops introduced by the Arabs included sugar cane, rice, hard wheat (durum), citrus, cotton, and figs. Many of these crops required sophisticated methods of irrigation, water management, and "agricultural technologies such as crop rotation, management of pests, and fertilizing crops by natural means."
During many famines in North Europe, Portugal exported grains, meat, olive oil, wine, sardine and several other products to England and several other European countries who were usually hard affected by these famines.
Thanks. I didn't know the famines affecting Volga Germans. Some settled in California, and they were my best friends whom I will never forget.
The Germanics famines made many millions of Germans abandomned their regions and look for better lands. Unfortunately some old academics still try to exclude from history the hardest moments of Germany history snd that will make people never to understand who they really are, because it is in the moments of dificulty that one molds his character.
Yout videos look so amazing
What tools do you use
Adobe Photoshop for the graphical elements and After Effects for the animations
@@ancientsight nice 👌 👍
I think I'll try my hand and making this.
I've got a MacBook so I'm wondering if this is still functional on this device.
It depends on your configuration. But Macbooks are usually pretty well software oriented. So if your device is not to old, it should run pretty well
@@ancientsight thanks for the help 👍
Do not hesitate, I'm glad to answer
Hahaha
Three of my grandparents are from Galicia (two from southern Galicia) and the fouth was from Leon.
Finally it seems that the internet has discovered the ancient Suebian migration to Iberia. They set up a kingdom there and stayed. They did leave us kings with funny names and of course their genes.
Excellent video. Thanks for your work. From this content and what is known, I'm guessing northwest Iberia remained in Visigoth control after the fall of the Suebi for only around 100 years before the Moors invaded? This means that, in that particular area, the Suebi occupation was longer and probably had more influence in local language and culture than the Visigoth. Interesting. People should dig deeper the connection between the Suebi and the portuguese/galician.
Yes it seems that Suebi influence was longer lasting than gothic influence in the region
This successor Kingdom was also called “Gallaecian Kingdom” im a bit disapointed he failed to mention it. Surely it was to make the last Celtiberian tribes feel part of this Kingdom, what better way to welcome your former enemies as to name a nation after their name? 🤔
I enjoyed your video immensely, so much information crammed into a short space of time 🔥 Y.N.W.A 🔥
Thanks a lot, I am glad you enjoyed
Looking great!
great videos thankyou! i subscribed.
The Portucalensis County existed since 868 AD, but much before that the people and the region was united and fought the Romans as no one else did. The Celts Bracari were described by Roman and Greek writers. If we just consider a country as it is today, so Germany didnt exist before the end of the 19th century.
Germany clearly existed as a particular country at least since the 11th century. Portugal began its existence around the same time as a county of Galicia. There was no Portugal before that...
Yes in Minho there are much more Blondes. Portuguese Phenotype
The physical anthropology of the Portuguese people.
Blonde hair is the type of hair corresponding to an unequal sexual figure, where female individuals imply a greater emphasis on the opposite of the male sex.
This hair class accounts for 17.75% of males and 23.23% of females. The average percentage of blonde hair in the general population is therefore 20%.
Blondes exist all over the country. But from a general point of view, the entire mountainous region of the north of the Tagus, with the exception of the coast and the mouth of the Douro, is where the population is significantly blonde. The southern provinces - Extremadura, Alentejo and Algarve, are generally comparatively micrometric.
By districts, the northern provinces are significantly blonde in the districts of Viseu, Guarda, Braga, Bragança and Viana do Castelo.
In the southern and coastal region of the country, small differences are noted in Faro, Lisbon, Santarém, Coimbra, Évora, Portalegre and Beja, respectively.
In short, the country is heterogeneous when it comes to the distribution of blonde hair. On the Beirão plateau, in the mountains of Trás-os-Montes and mainland Minho, is where the population is significantly blonde. In the coastal regions and plains of Alentejo there is already a relatively small percentage of this type of hair. The adjacent islands still show an equally vulgar percentage, where only the district of Angra do Heroísmo has another excess of blonde hair.
Great breakdown of the sub tribes of the Vandals
The Suebi weren't really Vandal "sub-tribes"
@@miltonbates6425Suebi (Suevi) and Vandals. Forgot the and. Like Gaiseric was Siling Vandal. Then you have Asdings Vandals or Astingi. Just forgot the and. 😂
Outstanding video!
Thanks a lot !
Great to hear you fixed your pronunciation of Suebi for this video. Otherwise, I was already a big fan of your videos. There's otherwise not much good coverage of late antiquity on TH-cam!
Your videos are awesome!
Long time no see.
I don't know why this was suggested to me, but damn, that was detailed! I always wonder about those peoples who swept across Europe, had their time, and then disappeared.
Most interesting. I always thougjt the Suebi played second fiddle to the Vandals and Visigoths.
These maps are beautiful! Did you make them on photoshop?
Yes, Photoshop indeed
This is amazing.
Still waiting for Heraclius tragic story, but nice vid !
Joana Schenker the beautiful Luso Swabian girl was Bodyboard World Champion! She was born on October 1987 in the beautiful Costa Vicentina, Algarve. She is the oldest daughter of four girls, her German parents live in Portugal, where they raise the family in a natural and relaxed environment. th-cam.com/video/OtiqK_IGHTg/w-d-xo.html
Fantastic
I would just love to know the music from 0:00-2:03, 2:08-4:04, 4:06-5:58, 6:00-8:19, 8:21-11:18, 11:20-the end of the video.
The Suebi built the first churches with overcast bows, which style would become prominent during the Arabic period.
Question: When Hermenegild rebelled against his father, was he controlling some sort of territory during his revolt. I am just a little confused because the video seemingly shows his controlling much of the south-west of the peninsula.
Yes, he had support in the south-west and he controlled the area of Seville for sure
Nice
Such and interesting tidbit that a few Brits settled in Galicia.
wouldnt be the last time brits settled in some part of spain. now they just settle in the costa del sol instead.
i believe it. a number of Galicians look indistinguishable from Brits.
@@gunnerulrich9209 Average Galician looks more like the Irish (although with very little redheads), source: I am Galician
@@DonPedromanthem too. I noticed they tend to look British/Irish or like... i dunno, Mediterranean of some kind. funny enough, my Argentinean grandma who's fully Galician has red hair. her dad's a blonde and her mom, think a brunette.
Many Roman Brits fled to Brittany ( France) after the Anglo Saxon invasion of Britain, some went to northern Spain as stated.
Are these Suebi same as Swabians in Germany ?
from name, but as a people? "partially"
Yes, and they have even imported their sigmatism (language-tic) with them. Portugese sounds to me like the Schwäbisch- German dialect of Spanish:
Many "sh"- sounds where standard German and Spanish have "s".😉
The other Suebi that remained in what today we call Germany, settled in the region they called Swabia.
Put this on double speed, it's just out of control
This small piece of land never gave up fight for the dominance of what today is Portugal!!
Portugal was less influenced by the Suebi than Galicia actually was. Only 30% of Portugal was part of the Suebian Kingdom, whereas the rest of the Suebi was mainly today’s Galicia and Leon. By contrary, Portugal was mainly of Lusitanian influence (post roman Lusitania), and was subject to several influences of Visigoths mainly.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reino_suevo
this was a rollercoaster of emotions, loved every second!
Great History lesson
Idk if I commented before, but it's always an iffy sight to see "Wikipedia" listed as a source. It would be better to list what they cite as a source (and verify that source if it's actually saying what the article says).
I always forget about the Suebi.
What about Phocas?
It will be for the next video, which will arrive much faster than this one
Ah, the Suebi, a tribe whose history with Rome dates to the Late Republic. With how frequently the tribes of Germania seemed to subsume one another over the centuries, seeing them establish their own kingdom alongside relative newcomers like the Goths and Vandals is a bit surreal.
and we're still here today, in Württemberg and Western Bavaria. Also the Swabians of Baden, Alsace, and Switzerland broke away in the Swabian War of 1499 and ditched the name, but they're also modern descendants of the OG Suebi
@@jensboettiger5286 hardly can call it "descendants", germanic tribal connections are hardly tracable. only by name of regions, but that does not affect who lives there
@@SkyForceOne2 They are easily traceable by the simple fact that they have never stopped calling themselves by what they are to this day, same as the Saxons and Franks. There is no guess work involved. I don't know why you imagine that the population of Suebi who settled the region magically disappeared and left behind no descrndants to carry on their bloodline with anyone who might have migrated in later, but its a very unlikely hypothesis that would require actual magic to be true
@@jensboettiger5286 i am not talking about "no traces", but the admixture is vastly different than what it was back then. alot of people going in and out of these lands
@@SkyForceOne2
Of course people are never "ethnically pure", but Jens Böttiger is right: All those regions speak Suebien, i.e. Alemannic dialects.
And that is one of the reasons why people from the region of Minho, portugal are know to be relentless and indomitable, invictus.
Why "Orense"? It is Ourense, or Auria for the time
Either a variant of the name of the city I found or a genuine mistake
@@ancientsight Maybe is because some Spaniard call it like that in Spanish (Castillian). Despite in Galician/Portuguese (the local language) is Ourense, as well the official name of the town for the Spanish State ("Orense" is not recognised in any legal document).
The Suebi my roots, my people
Lets go
Kingdom of Galice, the first medieval kingdom of Europe, created by suevians and galicians
Great video, just one criticism it's Ourense not Orense
Ótimo!
This is cool too, but I was hoping for Heraclius
He is next tho
@@ancientsight is the vid dropping soon?
@@mikehuang4834 yes
I tell ya, these Barbarians knew Iberia better then the natives, jumped around like they were born there.
Charles Kos covered this years ago
Man if I missed this
Spain used to be German and also Celtic.. it fell to Islam who erased a lot of the history... I feel a lot of Spainish people do not have family trees going back very far because of it.. They even had tp pay a tax for not being Muslim. My actual tree goes back to the King of the Suebi.. 2 of them as a matter of fact.. I am directly releated..
Indeed, thats what muslims do, they make you forget your identity for later claiming you are an arab that has to spread islam. Zombie type religion
Many typical Spanish surnames are Visigothic in origin. Fernandez, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Martinez, Gonzalez, Alvarez , Gomez ect.. Spaniards and Portuguese also bring up our Celtic aka Celtiberian ancestors but forget the Germanic tribes that entered Hispania, not just the Visigoths but the Suebi, Buri, Vandals, Alans..
As a Spaniard of Galician heritage, today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation. (Instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD, when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. 🇪🇸 (Except for the Kingdom of Portugal 🇵🇹 because they're special but I still love them.)
Muslims like to brag how they "ruled Iberia for 800 years. "
But what they fail to mention is that the Reconquista pretty much started straight away. And that the tiny Christian Kingdoms of the North were not part of Al Andalus. They also fail to mention that by the 12th century (1100s) half of Hispania was back in Indo European Christian hands. And by the mid 13th century 96% of Hispania had been reconquered. They fail to mention that the islamic kingdom of Granada was allowed to remain as long as they paid tribute to the Kingdom of Castile. Until they made the mistake of attacking a Christian settlement in the late 15th century.
Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West...
*Reconquista II Intensifies*
DEUS VULT!
What are you talking about, spain was scientifically and culturally thriving under islamic rule. Many many muslim scientists are from Spain. And the relationship between the native spaniards and muslims was good.
@@edstar83How long are you going to hold a grudge?
For the most part, atleast.@@ParthianSpirit
great video but try to be a little more creative with the colors. seven minutes in and i counted 5 factions who are green
Rather dramatic music for events that happened 2000 years ago. It’s like Mark Felton music.
where are the coins dude?
What is calcedonian christianity?
It was a doctrine of christianity elaborated after the Council of Chaledon (and the one from which modern Roman Apostholic and Greek Orthodox Christianity comes). U could say it was the oficial Roman doctrine in contrast with others as Miaphisiste, Arrian, Syriac, etc.
@@migueldeuna3261 The only Christian Catholic ritual authorized by the Vatican to to be different from the Roman Catholic is the Braga Rite! Because the church of Braga was more Important than Rome in the 6th century AD. In part thanks the work of St Martin of Braga.
The first medieval kingdom in Western Europe
11:03 why was Theodomir an Arian? You mean Chalcedonian? Otherwise it clashes with the rest
Yes, I said "Non Arian", I meant "Not Arian"
Lusatians and Suebi is clear that are Lusatian Serbs as their name in today east Germany.
average pan-slavtard L take
Lusitanians aren't Lusatians and
Suebes are Schwaben, not Sorbes.🙄
@@davidaxelos4678 They are Serbs, thats why they joined Serbia in liberation wars en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavle_Juri%C5%A1i%C4%87_%C5%A0turm
@@davidaxelos4678Most famous Lusatian Serbs are: Nietzsche, Laibnitz, Fichte, Martin Luther... and in Balkan Serbia its Pavle Jurišić Sturm who came to fight for Serbs in liberation wars
@@alexandartheserb7861
All You mentioned were 1-5% Neanderthal. You must be 100 Klingon, though...🤣
Wh, not claim Portugal's Fernando Pesoa for Serbia?
Have you noticed the surprising morpheme-to-morpheme and phoneme-to-phoneme similarity of such ethnonyms as SUAVI/SCHWABEN (Germans) < SKLAVI/SKLAVENI (Slavs)?
th-cam.com/video/lfdx_q9b04k/w-d-xo.html
Among the invaders everyone knew who the real vandals were.
🇵🇹👍💚❤️
Hispania, not 'Iberia Peninsula'.
Good video, although the insistance on the term "Calchedonian christianity" surely is a disservice to the viewer from the overall situation of Christian Church.
Good point
You say south west and show the people you're talking about settling in the northwest.
Not impressed.
Thanks for this video I am from Braga! :D
My history teacher many times said the reason why there´s so many blonde people in the north of Portugal is probably due to Germanic invasions :D
That's probably not the main reason. Their genes are way too diluted. For instance Northern Portugal and Galicia have the highest amount of northafrican in the whole of Iberia.
@@Alejojojo6 I am from Northern Portugal and I have no Nothern African DNA, I have Welsh,Irish,Scottish DNA, Holland-NorthWestern Germany, Balkan, Eastern European and ofc Iberian.
@@simaozinho37 myheritage is a garbage ancestry test. You likely have very diluted, if not no visible germanic percentage left.
You are completly wrong. People made a few dna tests and believe its representative, its ridicule.
So the suebi speek spanish!!🤔🤔
Galicia, not Galatia
Vandal, Suebe-Srbi, Alanians, all just different Serbian tribes...
average pan-slavtard L take
@@SkyForceOne2They are either Albanian or Turkish!🤣
I think that Suebi are Serbs ( Srbi on serbian language). I heart "Svebi" in this video, lowercase letter v is very similar lowercase letter r. There is the river Ibar in Serbia. We, in Serbia say for Portugal, Portugalija. Two words: porta, which means the main door or entrance and galija which means big ship.
it doesnt matter what you think, just because you get a similiar name by exchanging letters xD
You are wrong. The suebi were part of the swabians in south-west Germany, that exists till today.
@@bjornwenzel2683 Only Genetics sience can say who is right.
@@SkyForceOne2 IT doesn't matter what you think, also.
Those bloody germans.
The map would be a lot more informative if the chosen colors weren't literally the worst - the creator's selected shades of red and green couldn't be less distinguishable, even for people with some green cones.
The content seems decent, but the map is useless for viewers without perfect color vision. I can only imagine how annoying it must be for dichromats. Please look up colorblindness and learn how color vision works so you can produce content that's accessible to everyone instead of only full trichromats.
Great video - Great info.
TERRIBLE SOUNDTRACK!
Hi, thanks for your feedback. What is it about it? Too loud? Not fitting?
The area of Aqua Flavie from where i came from {about 30km to the east} should be difficult to take due to its geographical psositon and the river in the middle.One could defend the are with a few well trained men.Today the place is rot with ''democratic'' corrupt thugs.
They were very successful ravagers, by the account of a seventh-century traveler referenced by Gibbon destroying every town and city in Hispania, virtually obliterating centuries of civilized development and reducing the population by at least half. Not the kind of legacy to be celebrated, but observed and reviewed nonetheless.
At least the Visigoths beat their asses and conquered them.
Never happened
sources. even then, it's probably some arbitrary roman gibberish
Its obvious that nazis didnt know nothing about arianism...
Se a ancestral capital Braga fosse hoje capital, o bilionario litio nao estaria nas maos dos corruptores estrangeiros. Lisboa é territorio Al Andalus.
Çhrist / divine central authority unity ordering substantive human rights choice is emperor
Srbi