How did the Reconquista Actually Happen?

How did the Reconquista Actually Happen?
While many people are aware of Iberia’s religious history including the infamous Spanish Inquisitions, not so many are aware that neither Spain nor Portugal was always controlled by Christian Europeans. In fact, there was a period of almost 8 centuries that marked a tireless power struggle between the Christian Kingdoms and Muslim Caliphates.
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  • @EduSodap
    @EduSodap8 ай бұрын

    Random fun fact: by the later stages of reconquista, the christian kings started to REALLY get into chess and other board games like backgammon and after the fall of Granada, under the Catholic Monarchy, chess was reinvented to add the Queen as the most powerful piece, letting bishops move as far as they wanted, and started using the game for dating

  • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

    @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

    8 ай бұрын

    Dating?

  • @saadkhaion9234

    @saadkhaion9234

    3 ай бұрын

    The queen and bishops are just rename for the original wazir(minister/general) and the elephant brigades (respectively) to honor both the queen and the monks in their efforts of ending the Iberian muslim kingdoms

  • @Historiaymas.

    @Historiaymas.

    23 күн бұрын

    interesting

  • @ghfudrs93uuu

    @ghfudrs93uuu

    18 күн бұрын

    chess must be the worst game for dating. Everytime you play a woman you end throwing the game because otherwise she's gonna cry.

  • @alejandroalonso5386

    @alejandroalonso5386

    14 күн бұрын

    It’s believed that the queen only use to move as the king but, it was later changed because of Queen Isabel of Castila

  • @santiagocarreno5881
    @santiagocarreno588110 ай бұрын

    The Catholic Kings were the original MVPs

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes.

  • @MichaelMatzek-jy3jh

    @MichaelMatzek-jy3jh

    16 күн бұрын

    agreed

  • @earthlingavian1132

    @earthlingavian1132

    11 күн бұрын

    MVP , what is that?

  • @djSevalFerrick

    @djSevalFerrick

    11 күн бұрын

    @@earthlingavian1132it stands for MOST VALUABLE PLAYERs

  • @reddevilsunited_2060
    @reddevilsunited_206010 ай бұрын

    The Reconquista. One of the greatest and most deserved comebacks in human history.

  • @awsomeclipsnow

    @awsomeclipsnow

    10 ай бұрын

    Indeed. Spaniards/Portuguese avenged the Gothic Kingdom.

  • @reddevilsunited_2060

    @reddevilsunited_2060

    9 ай бұрын

    @@awsomeclipsnow for the sake of Christendom yes.

  • @gururaven

    @gururaven

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@reddevilsunited_2060 Catholics, not Christians.

  • @reddevilsunited_2060

    @reddevilsunited_2060

    8 ай бұрын

    @@gururaven who also happen to be a branch of Christianity.

  • @craigarkensaw

    @craigarkensaw

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@gururavenare you dumb? Catholics ARE christians

  • @nenenindonu
    @nenenindonu10 ай бұрын

    What's more impressive than the reconquista itself is the formation of the maritime Iberian civilizations that followed shortly after the centuries of reconquests

  • @Letnistonwandif

    @Letnistonwandif

    10 ай бұрын

    We can see that they were dominating the Mediterranean even during the 1300 with the Italian states and the kingdom of Aragon. They even send an small force of 6000 Spanish almogavares to fight against the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia under the command of Roger de flor. They absolutely bamboolezed the Ottoman Turks in every battle while being outnembered by the Turks. But sadly they got betrayed by the byzantines. The Iberians would continue on in humiliating the Ottoman Turks in many other areas. Completely dominating the Turks in the Indian ocean and the Mediterranean including the Atlantic. Indeed the Ottoman Turks were so scared of the fierce of the Iberian warriors that they had nightmares for centuries about them coming to their lands and taking their daughters such as in la jornada de Túnez 1535 and the battle of Lepanto 1571.

  • @DrClock-il8ij

    @DrClock-il8ij

    10 ай бұрын

    Fancy way of saying colonization

  • @nenenindonu

    @nenenindonu

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@LetnistonwandifOttomans however overpower Spain in every point of history. Spain couldn't even challenge Ottomans without a "Holy League" it took them another occasion at Lepanto to partially reverse the annihilations of Preveza and Djerba, prior to that Spain was getting humiliated by Barbarossa alone despite the support of various European nations like Portugal, Genoa & Venice, now when even an allied Spain didn't genuinely dominate the Ottomans in naval wars how could they do it one on one in full scale wars ?

  • @Letnistonwandif

    @Letnistonwandif

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nenenindonu The Portuguese did not help. It was only the only small Italian states and Spain that the formed the holy league in the Mediterranean. The ottomans had the pirate Berber states. Barbarrosa only won one battle against the Spanish and was humiliated afterwards in the conquest of Tunis. These are the battles were the ottomans were humiliated by the Spanish Spanish conquest of Oran 1732) (Humilliating defeat for thé ottomans) Spanish conquest of Oran 1509 (Spanish Victory) Battle of Alborán (Humilliating defeat for ottomans) Battle of Cape Celidonia (extremely humilliating defeat of ottomans) Battle of Cape Corvo (Another humilliating defeat for ottomans) Battle of Girolata( Another victory of spain) Great Siege of Malta( This one was with allies but the ottomans still had more soldiers and they got massacred) Holy League 1535 (Another victory for Spain and his allies still the ottomans had allies too) Capture of Mahdia 1550 (Humilliating defeat for ottomans) Siege of Oran 1556 (Spanish victory) Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir (Humilliating ottoman defeat) Ottoman invasion of Otranto (Humilliating defeat for ottomans they surrended even if they were 18 000 compared to 2100 christian forces) Ottoman-Habsburg wars( Spanish hasburg victorie tooking back Hungrary) Siege of the Castle of Saint George (Spanish victory) Conquest of Tunis 1535 (Spanish victory) Siege of Vienna 1529 (One of the most humilliating defeats of ottomans) Siege of Castelnuovo (Even if this was an ottoman victory i wanted to show that even if the Spanish soldiers were outnembered 1 to 6 they still managed to kill more than half of the army this shows that mallority of the battles that ottoman won it was because they had so much more numerical advantage) Conquest of Tunis 1574 (This battle its another example of what i was talking about outnembering and still getting fckd) And battle of lepanto 1571 (another humilliating defeat for the ottomans by the Spaniards) Sitio de Orán y Mazalquivir 1563(Thé most humilliating defeat for thé ottomans 1500 Spaniards vs 100 000 Ottomans and Jannisaries and It ended in an Décisive Spanish Victory. Almost thé entire Ottoman army slaughtered. Toma de Mahdía (1550) Siege of the Castle of Saint George(1500) Spanish victory

  • @Letnistonwandif

    @Letnistonwandif

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nenenindonu The ottomans never overpowered the Spanish. They got humiliated in almost every battle by them . Even Suleiman was scared of Charles V of Spain.

  • @mtndudesf
    @mtndudesf10 ай бұрын

    Muslim Granada was valuable economically to the Iberian Christian kingdoms so they let it survive, until the Ottoman conquest of the Eastern Roman Empire tipped the power balance in the Mediterranean in favor of the Muslims. The Iberian Christians were afraid of losing their gains to the Muslims reinvigorated by the Ottomans, so they decided to remove the chance that Muslim Granada would become a toehold on the peninsula for the Ottomans. The 200 years of Granada's survival after the fall of Seville ended under this geopolitical circumstance, which caused the Iberian Christian monarchs to become "more religious" as the narrative says. The final conquest of Granada proved to be strategically necessary for the Iberian Christians since the Ottomans soon after became a big naval power and took over most of muslim North Africa, took Greek and Adriatic islands from the Venetians, Rhodes from the Knights, and laid siege to Malta at the doorsteps of Italy.

  • @milosstojakovic7586

    @milosstojakovic7586

    10 ай бұрын

    Well put. To add, I believe Rhodes was taken from Knights Hospitaler.

  • @RockSmithStudio

    @RockSmithStudio

    10 ай бұрын

    Then European powers conquered the Americas and became gigachads of the world for centuries to come

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    10 ай бұрын

    I like how you put more religious in air quotes

  • @zakback9937

    @zakback9937

    10 ай бұрын

    Ottoman take over of north Africa came much after the fall of Granada and that the Naval piracy came from the Andalusis that were exiled in vengeance.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Amen.🙏.

  • @wonderwiseS2
    @wonderwiseS29 ай бұрын

    To all my Spanish brothers, a big hug from Portugal. Sometimes i wonder what our Global Empire would have been if we were united as one since the Reconquista.

  • @alwoolridge6377

    @alwoolridge6377

    9 ай бұрын

    Indeed. We would be a first class world superpower. We wouldn't have lost our Empires to the USA or independentism.

  • @2200Stinger

    @2200Stinger

    9 ай бұрын

    @@alwoolridge6377 Sorry guys, but Americans still would’ve taken your influence and colonies. You’d definitely have more sway in Europe though.

  • @alwoolridge6377

    @alwoolridge6377

    9 ай бұрын

    @@2200Stinger Consider not only that we would've had our combined power, but also we wouldn't have made certain decisions and investments had we not feared and threatened each other. We would probably be technologically on par with them, so we would've had a fighting chance, at the very least.

  • @chrissweeten6096

    @chrissweeten6096

    9 ай бұрын

    @@alwoolridge6377 no chance whatsoever against us.

  • @alwoolridge6377

    @alwoolridge6377

    9 ай бұрын

    @@chrissweeten6096 Blas de Lezo didn't have any chance against the british in Cartagena de Indias, as well. But...

  • @AlonsoAlonsou
    @AlonsoAlonsou6 ай бұрын

    Spanish empire took some kind of revenge for us greeks. Love spain from greece

  • @elkingoh4543

    @elkingoh4543

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, Catholic and Orthodox retribution to Islam

  • @masterman9998

    @masterman9998

    Ай бұрын

    Greeks were f...ed by.....

  • @captainjacksparrow370

    @captainjacksparrow370

    19 күн бұрын

    Bro,that’s not true imo.Spanish and the Catalan Company were committing atrocities in Greece(Eastern Roman Empire at that time),for over a century and were a big reason for the decline of the population and culture of Romans.

  • @grandvizir

    @grandvizir

    18 күн бұрын

    @@captainjacksparrow370 as Greeks what do you claim culturally and geographically yours ? Actual Greece and all the way to Constantinople ?

  • @generaldelasmontanas2699

    @generaldelasmontanas2699

    18 күн бұрын

    @@captainjacksparrow370 he meant that while anatolia was being conquered by muslims iberia was being liberated by christians

  • @bconni2
    @bconni25 ай бұрын

    i appreciate your intellectual honesty. often times when discussing the Reconquista, people have a tendency to skip over the formation of Portugal, treating it as a side note

  • @vitorsousa8172
    @vitorsousa817210 ай бұрын

    Just to add that 1415 marked the conquest of Ceuta harbour city in Africa. The Portuguese new dynasty considered the possibility of trying to conquer Granada, but changed its mind because it would bring some problems with Castille. This year marked the beginning of the Age of Discovery

  • @habibturay9930

    @habibturay9930

    10 ай бұрын

    If you're Catholic. Please pray for West African Catholics who are under the thumb of Islam like our brothers were in Spain and Portugal. Please pray.

  • @cattooo7273

    @cattooo7273

    10 ай бұрын

    Eu4 lore is so deep this is amazing

  • @itubecollection1623

    @itubecollection1623

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@habibturay9930under islamic rule in the andaluce they had freedom of faith..the jews, christians and muslims thrived peacefully..cut the nonsense about islamic thumb

  • @habibturay9930

    @habibturay9930

    10 ай бұрын

    @@itubecollection1623 What freedom of faith. Please do your research. If christian really had freedom of faith than why did they flee north to kingdom of Asturias.

  • @marcind4644

    @marcind4644

    10 ай бұрын

    @@itubecollection1623 No, they were always second class citizens, even in the most "tolerant" muslim kingdoms. Not saying the christians were always tolerant, but the idea of tolerant muslims is just an idealisation repeated by fundamental muslims.

  • @EmisoraRadioPatio
    @EmisoraRadioPatio10 ай бұрын

    You crucially forgot about Republacion (repopulation). One of the reasons why the Reconquest lasted so long was that in the early part the Christians cleansed reconquered areas and repopulated them with their own people. This process takes generations.

  • @SiPakRubah

    @SiPakRubah

    10 ай бұрын

    So, the genocidal act was also involved too? Interesting

  • @EmisoraRadioPatio

    @EmisoraRadioPatio

    10 ай бұрын

    @@SiPakRubah In all likelihood, yes. Genocide is frequent in history and should only surprise us amateur historians. But in all honesty it's impossible to tell how much repoblacion involved expelling versus killing. That's why I used the word "cleansing."

  • @unanec

    @unanec

    10 ай бұрын

    @@SiPakRubah yeah just like muslims left no one, the christians did the same

  • @ryeguy7941

    @ryeguy7941

    10 ай бұрын

    @SiPakRubah think of it as decolonisation, the Algerians did the same thing to the French back in the 60's.

  • @ihl0700677525

    @ihl0700677525

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah. There are old (medieval) *churches* in Iberia with images and statuettes depicting various "positions" of sexual intercourse for the peasantry to learn from. Back then they were dead serious with the repopulation effort. I remember the time I'm discussing with my friend about current demographic crisis in East Asia (Japan & South Korea) and the world in general. He said that demographic decline is irreversible and Japan will lose like half of its current population by 2100. I said to him, while that might be true, the general trend itself is NOT actually irreversible. There are instances, including in medieval Spain, which a society was able to reinvigorate their population growth thru concerted effort (not to mention we have the technology to actually breed humans with "science" now). Something similar has been recorded elsewhere, including in China (the growth during Song Dynasty), India, and the Middle East. IIRC there is passage in the Bible about how the tribes of Israel repopulate Canaan (modern Israel, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan region).

  • @jamesdenecochea5709
    @jamesdenecochea57098 ай бұрын

    Members of my family fought under King Sancho VII of Navarre at the BATALLA DE LAS NAVAS DE TOLOSA in 1212.

  • @user-rd5eb2ht7x

    @user-rd5eb2ht7x

    8 ай бұрын

    God bless them✝️

  • @basedkaiser5352

    @basedkaiser5352

    8 ай бұрын

    Heroes ✝️✝️✝️🇪🇸✝️✝️✝️

  • @CryptoDictador-yf4fs

    @CryptoDictador-yf4fs

    8 ай бұрын

    Nobody has records of their ancestors so old in Spain, nor that it was China. There's never a lack of attention-seeking liar.

  • @hinduskigaandchodo336

    @hinduskigaandchodo336

    7 ай бұрын

    WE MUSLIMS WILL CONQUER U AGAIN

  • @soysauce4087

    @soysauce4087

    6 ай бұрын

    @@hinduskigaandchodo336with what? Shitty ass rusty AK and women oppression culture?

  • @Alex-mn1fb
    @Alex-mn1fb10 ай бұрын

    Asturias is pronounced just like its written. Its Asturia-S. The S is not silent, as it is a Spanish name.

  • @haydenarias

    @haydenarias

    10 ай бұрын

    this sort of frustrated me too, sounded like he was just adapting the name Astoria haha

  • @Alex-mn1fb

    @Alex-mn1fb

    10 ай бұрын

    @@haydenarias Same. Good video, but correct pronunciation warrants research.

  • @anastasios0513

    @anastasios0513

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Alex-mn1fb This is frequent in his videos, unfortunately. So grating and such a distraction.

  • @jcsfc2842

    @jcsfc2842

    10 ай бұрын

    in the 700's it was known as 'Asturia' without the s though

  • @Alex-mn1fb

    @Alex-mn1fb

    10 ай бұрын

    @@jcsfc2842 Was it tho? Any sources on that? Still, it would be more appropriate to use the pronunciation everyone is familiar with. Historians almost always use the nomenclature that is closer and more familiar to us in the modern era.

  • @wikicamara
    @wikicamara10 ай бұрын

    Catalonia was a region including several lordships and counties, not a kingdom. After the decay of the Frankish Carolingian rule in the Hispanic March, the County of Barcelona was the preeminent power in the region. The dynastic union resulting from the marriage of the Princess of Aragon and the Count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer IV, resulted into the Crown of Aragon. Later it included the kingdoms of Valencia and Majorca, as well as the italian kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia until 1714.

  • @alwoolridge6377

    @alwoolridge6377

    9 ай бұрын

    The Crown of Aragon included the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdo. Of Valencia, the Kingdom of Naples...and the County of Barcelona. Today's fanatic catalonian independentists will tell you otherwise, but it is just propaganda. They also say that all the important figures of history are catalonian too (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Cid, Americo Vespuccio...)

  • @lucassmigly6647

    @lucassmigly6647

    9 ай бұрын

    @@alwoolridge6377 in Catalonia no one claims all this bullshit you are saying, stop with your lies. The only ones that try to alter history are some fanatic Spanish ppl that even try to say that Catalan is not a language and other ridiculous things which clearly have been proven untrue

  • @delaval7767

    @delaval7767

    8 ай бұрын

    Viva España, Viva El Cid, Vivan los Reyes Católicos! Y después Dios nos dió América como premio por defender la verdadera Fé.

  • @joansuero9063

    @joansuero9063

    8 ай бұрын

    what is a kingdom? Learn basics xd. Catalonia have been a Kingdom after the independence from aquitanie kingdom

  • @ismaelguzman8256

    @ismaelguzman8256

    8 ай бұрын

    @@joansuero9063 to be a kingdom you gotta have the title of king . 1117 was the first time someone talked about Catalonia and catalans ( or the oldest date we have proof )

  • @ellismarquez8410
    @ellismarquez841010 ай бұрын

    This is why I'm grateful for my Asturian ancestors. Their cause eventually led to the rise of the Spanish Empire, which resulted in their 16th century descendants arriving in the New World at the port of Veracruz in 1540, where, over the next century, travelled up the Rio Grande to Santa Fe, then south to El Paso, and gradually spread throughout what would eventually become West Texas.

  • @GreoGreo

    @GreoGreo

    10 ай бұрын

    🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦

  • @rebellefleur2993

    @rebellefleur2993

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@GreoGreoISIS

  • @clayton33

    @clayton33

    10 ай бұрын

    Asturias was Visigothic?

  • @frgv4060

    @frgv4060

    10 ай бұрын

    A tough brethren. Tell the Romans, it was till Augustus at great cost and savagery that they finally were able to conquer those lands in Hispania. The real “Asterix” must have been Astur or Cantabri but well you know the French 😜.

  • @DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb

    @DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb

    10 ай бұрын

    My mothers dna traces back to the basque/Asturias region

  • @Luinedhel
    @Luinedhel9 ай бұрын

    A most impressive breakdown of the Reconquista, thanks for the amazing contribution. Just a few notes from a spanish native speaker: The kingdom is called Asturias, and the city or Córdoba is pronounced 'COrdoba, rather than cor'DOba.

  • @EligioCazzaniga

    @EligioCazzaniga

    9 ай бұрын

    The centuries-long occupation was aimed at perpetrating genocide and ethnic replacement against the Iberian natives by the occupying Arab colonizers. The reconquest and subsequent inquisition finally brought justice to the natives and their lands raped by the imperialism of the occupying colonizing power.

  • @EligioCazzaniga

    @EligioCazzaniga

    9 ай бұрын

    It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.

  • @anthonyfauci5859

    @anthonyfauci5859

    8 ай бұрын

    Who cares

  • @antoniomari4126

    @antoniomari4126

    8 ай бұрын

    @@EligioCazzaniga Es difícil hablar de invasores y nativos cuando los Visigodos apenas habían terminado de conquistar la península (y aún les costaba mantener la integridad territorial).

  • @EligioCazzaniga

    @EligioCazzaniga

    8 ай бұрын

    @@antoniomari4126 The centuries-long occupation was aimed at perpetrating genocide and ethnic replacement against the Iberian natives by the occupying Arab colonizers. The reconquest and subsequent inquisition finally brought justice to the natives and their lands raped by the imperialism of the occupying colonizing power.

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon46510 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing things

  • @macmaniac3080
    @macmaniac308010 ай бұрын

    I like how the Portuguese are fairly raid here, feels to me Potrugal’s legacy and influence isn’t accurately portrait nowadays

  • @wikicamara

    @wikicamara

    10 ай бұрын

    it is worth mentioning that the shadow cast by British colonialism has often overshadowed the contributions of both Spain and Portugal. The British Empire's historical narrative has been dominant, emphasizing their own achievements while downplaying the accomplishments of other nations. This biased rewriting of history has unfortunately diminished the recognition that Portugal and Spain rightfully deserve. A great example would be the bias in Hollywood movies, particularly those about pirates and corsairs, often omits the significant contributions and roles played by Spain and Portugal during s.XVI-XVIII. Instead, the focus tends to be on English and French figures, perpetuating the notion that they were the primary players in maritime history.

  • @EligioCazzaniga

    @EligioCazzaniga

    9 ай бұрын

    It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.

  • @SmokingLaddy

    @SmokingLaddy

    8 ай бұрын

    @@EligioCazzaniga You ever heard of the Carthaginians?

  • @EligioCazzaniga

    @EligioCazzaniga

    8 ай бұрын

    @@SmokingLaddy the topic is the colonization and occupation by the arabs

  • @SmokingLaddy

    @SmokingLaddy

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@EligioCazzaniga No. You were talking about Iberian Natives. They haven't controlled Iberia since before the Carthaginians who settled nearly 3000 years ago. I was just pointing out your comment is worthless.

  • @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658
    @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk65810 ай бұрын

    Glory to Spain and Portugal for defending their land and reconquering the Iberian peninsula!

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    To the rich north Europe.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Hammer or ice pick? Were you there?

  • @bvillafuerte765

    @bvillafuerte765

    10 ай бұрын

    @@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Remember that northern Europe is poor.

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j

    @user-op8fg3ny3j

    10 ай бұрын

    If 800 years still counts as reconquering then I guess England can invade France because they invaded them in 1217 😂

  • @thalmoragent9344

    @thalmoragent9344

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@user-op8fg3ny3j Imagine them beefing again, after all this time 💀

  • @Ukepa
    @Ukepa8 ай бұрын

    I wondered about the reconquest of Iberia... very good video!!!

  • @LanguedocProvenceGascogneMIDI
    @LanguedocProvenceGascogneMIDI9 ай бұрын

    1:20 The kingdom of Aquitaine foreshadows Occitania. Because feudalism, Aquitaine was divided in many principalities: the Frankish kings took advantage of this division to annex Occitanie (formerly: Aquitaine) piece by piece to their domain between 1213 (annexation of the county of Auvergne) and 1860 (annexation of the county of Nice). The core of present-day France is therefore the agglomeration of the kingdom of the Franks with the former kingdom of Aquitaine, and even Brittany, because Brittany also lost its independence in 1532.

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman982110 ай бұрын

    It took 700 years but the Spanairds and Portuguese finally reconquered the peninsula.

  • @ryeguy7941

    @ryeguy7941

    10 ай бұрын

    Too bad their descendents are handing it back over in the name of diversity.

  • @jpfg2713

    @jpfg2713

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@ryeguy7941no, we bloody aren't. Where do you get that?

  • @lluis9650

    @lluis9650

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jpfg2713 Spain has well over 2 million Muslims, while 30 years ago it had a tenth of that at most, and Africans are constantly crossing over to Spain, to Ceuta, Canaries or Andalusia. I think he refers to that, if all the migrants actually stayed in Spain that would indeed be pretty bad and they would already be a majority in many places but most cross it to go to other parts of Europe. Portugal does not have these problems because they do not directly border Morocco and migrants prefer to move to richer countries in Europe or stay in Spain. The thing is that this number only increases and they are usually having more kids than the locals, kids that often do not feel Spanish but of their parent's nationality and many of those practice Islam and even want to expand it, so Spain may have in the not so distant future a big social problem.

  • @rizzllerr

    @rizzllerr

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@lluis9650 I am from Serbia, my nation suffered nearly 600 FUCKING YEARS under Ottoman rule so it saddens me that Europe's leaders today are willingly islamising Europe AGAIN. Take care

  • @jangulherme2243

    @jangulherme2243

    Ай бұрын

    Everyone talks about the colonisation of Africa and the struggle for independence. But it was actually Portugal and Spain who had to first fight for independence from African oppression

  • @OhioDan
    @OhioDan10 ай бұрын

    Good video covering a very broad period of Iberian history. It's not easy to cover nearly a millennium of events in 12 minuets.

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion10 ай бұрын

    Fun Fact: Pope Sylvester II, originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, used to study in Cordoba after he joined the delegation dispatched by Count Borell II of Barcelona to Caliph al-Hakam II of Cordoba. There, he was introduced to Greek philosophy, mathematics and astronomy and encountered the Mozarab bishops and judges who dressed in Arabic clothing. And when he became the Pope, he most likely tried to promote the knowledge he learned from his time in Cordoba and also attempted to stop such practices like simony. But instead, he was accused of learning sorcery from the Devil. And so, the first attempt of Renaissance failed. Someone like him deserved a movie of his own. Why? Not only because he is the first Pope of French origin but also because he is a humanist before the Renaissance was even a thing. Edit: I do not know if Gerbert actually met the famous Islamic scholars such as al-Zahwari and Lubna during his time in Cordoba or not.

  • @weggie5561

    @weggie5561

    10 ай бұрын

    That's amazing where can I learn more about him?

  • @abriefsummaryofhistory7449

    @abriefsummaryofhistory7449

    10 ай бұрын

    Based

  • @lerneanlion

    @lerneanlion

    10 ай бұрын

    @@weggie5561 I read this solely from Wikipedia and it was already amazing. And what I just said in the comment are just the most important parts of his life and legacy.

  • @SiPakRubah

    @SiPakRubah

    10 ай бұрын

    Imagine how far Europeans would be if they managed to be renaissance earlier

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Amen.🙏.

  • @vaktus3380
    @vaktus338010 ай бұрын

    The Almohad collapse was a huge civil war that fractured the empired into many pieces some of which allied with Christian’s. They conquered warring jigsaw pieces not the entire puzzle

  • @khal7702

    @khal7702

    10 ай бұрын

    they weren't trying to conquer whole puzzle just the pieces that were taken n could unite the peninsula

  • @EmisoraRadioPatio

    @EmisoraRadioPatio

    10 ай бұрын

    The Almohads themselves invaded Andalucia and conquered the other Muslim states. Much of Andalucia's history is Spanish Muslims fighting or being conquered by radical North African Muslims.

  • @vaktus3380

    @vaktus3380

    10 ай бұрын

    @@EmisoraRadioPatio They werent any more radical then Christian Iberians, by todays standers almost everyone in the 12th century was radical, the correct term would be more puritanical. The almoravids were actually invited by andalusians knowing that they were ineffective in holding back the reconquista, the almohads were embraced for a while, things are never black and white. many andalusians despised them for their puritanical policies, a few admired what they saw to be saviours because their people were living too lavish and spoilt.

  • @creaflexkhalid8726

    @creaflexkhalid8726

    10 ай бұрын

    i agree , if almohads didn't collapse there is no way Castile would take all that huge territory

  • @GXSergio

    @GXSergio

    10 ай бұрын

    The previous hispanic cristian kingdom also collapse because a huge civil war that the muslim invaders take advantage on...

  • @dimityrpetrov6858
    @dimityrpetrov68588 ай бұрын

    Very interesting history about Iberian kingdoms and how they took their lands back through time

  • @wzvy
    @wzvy10 ай бұрын

    The reconquista was one of the most important events in history! Can you imagine a world without the Iberian people and the age of exploration?

  • @SmokingLaddy

    @SmokingLaddy

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes perhaps there would be some original culture remaining in the Caribbean and Central/South America instead of the populations being purged and their history and cultures wiped out as we see today.

  • @brunol-p_g8800

    @brunol-p_g8800

    10 ай бұрын

    @@SmokingLaddy Spanish colonisation was based on the “mestizos”, the mixed people from indigenous and Spanish people, which gave birth to the “Latinos” we call today. Unlike British colonisation who was based on extermination.

  • @SmokingLaddy

    @SmokingLaddy

    10 ай бұрын

    @@brunol-p_g8800I am Mexican and I don't get what tone you re trying to use? English have nothing to do with Mexico.

  • @brunol-p_g8800

    @brunol-p_g8800

    10 ай бұрын

    @@SmokingLaddy I am not talking about English having to do with Mexico, estoy hablando de la diferencia entre la colonización inglesa de sus territorios que reposaba sobre la exterminación de los indígenas y la colonización española que reposaba sobre el mestizo de las poblaciones .

  • @SmokingLaddy

    @SmokingLaddy

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@brunol-p_g8800 Tlapopouilik nikchiua amo tlatlahto in itlahtol in hispantlahtoltlakatekolomeh, nitlatlahto in imelauatlahtol Mexiko.

  • @Orion4976
    @Orion49766 ай бұрын

    The Reconquista was essentially over after the 1212 Navas de Tolosa battle, took a little over 500 years to complete in reality. Then it lingered on for 2 and a half more centuries cause Castille and Leon allowed it to, since it was economically beneficial.

  • @polsa8886
    @polsa888610 ай бұрын

    There are a lot of things that are no well explained. The reconquista is usually romanticized, there were a lot of clashes between catholic kingdoms too, as they were between muslim caliphates. Also, Catalonia was never a kingdom, it was the county of Barcelona or the Catalan counties. But it's properly done that Castille and Aragon are not merged into Spain, that would be later, it's considered with Charles I. And until 1714 'Nova Planta Decrees', they had very different laws.

  • @Frenchman1025

    @Frenchman1025

    9 ай бұрын

    hard to cover 8 centuries of history in a 12 minute video and not leave out certain events

  • @austin8775
    @austin877510 ай бұрын

    My least favorite comment on history videos are “wOooW wHy dIdnT i lEaRn tHis iN scHooL” interested in a topic then find out about it. Don’t expect your high school history teacher to go teach you every historical subject

  • @ryeguy7941

    @ryeguy7941

    10 ай бұрын

    Plus, it doesn't fit the narrative of "west bad"

  • @mugikuyu9403

    @mugikuyu9403

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ryeguy7941 who…who has that narrative? Also, can you admit that sometimes the west was indeed ‘bad’? Or must the west, unlike any other civilisation to have very existed, be viewed only through its positive deeds and never its negative ones? If there’s one civilisation that I can think of that is judged almost wholly for its evil it’s the Assyrians who are viewed as savages who invented one thousand and one ways to torture a man to death and not much else. The west, if anything, comes off much better than some of its parts deserve.

  • @ryeguy7941

    @ryeguy7941

    10 ай бұрын

    @mugikuyu9403 idk where you've been but the West has been viewed negatively over the past few decades and it's positives aren't even mentioned.

  • @doo2786

    @doo2786

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ryeguy7941 Because history books saying that all modern ideas come from the west is somehow saying "west bad?"

  • @ryeguy7941

    @ryeguy7941

    10 ай бұрын

    @doo2786 that's not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is when viewing civilizations through the moral lense, academia over the years has viewed Western civilization as this irredeemable evil that's responsible for all the ills in the world while ignoring the fact everyone else was doing exactly what the West was doing and ignoring the fact the West stopped doing it while everyone else continued or in some cases continues to do it. A perfect example is in the actual video. Everyone knows about the Spanish inquisition because it was this evil thing they did, and it'd constantly brought up, but ignoring the reconquista because that would portray the Spanish ie a European group ie Westerners ie White people as victims of non White aggression and that does not fit in with the progressive/woke/sjw narrative of the Westerners always being the aggressors and non whites the victims. You understand now?

  • @kicocol
    @kicocol9 ай бұрын

    "infamous Spanish Inquisition". Not even 1 min into the video and there has to be a reference of the Spanish Black legend

  • @eskombro

    @eskombro

    9 ай бұрын

    Of course they do. They always do.

  • @elkingoh4543

    @elkingoh4543

    3 ай бұрын

    No one can expect from the Spanish Inquisitor!

  • @orestilamadaseva3936

    @orestilamadaseva3936

    12 күн бұрын

    You can always expect the Spanish inquisition 😂

  • @InAeternumRomaMater
    @InAeternumRomaMater10 ай бұрын

    Glory to our Roman brothers of Hispania from a Roman brother of Romania. Be proud of your glory! Stay strong as Christians and Romans because this is our identity as Latin Europeans!🇷🇴❤🇪🇸🇵🇹

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    What a horror, my Allah!

  • @luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334

    @luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334

    10 ай бұрын

    Even north Africa and the Middle East can claim to be Roman, just because you are Christian its doesn't make you Roman! Africa and the Middle East were far more important than Hiberia or Dacia!

  • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox

    @MaximusAugustusOrthodox

    10 ай бұрын

    Amen 🙏❤️☝️✝️☦️

  • @midomen100

    @midomen100

    10 ай бұрын

    So you think genocide is glorious? Or only glorious when christians do it and to be condemned when muslim conquerers did it? You think what putin does in Ukraine is glorious to? Because it looks similiar to what i just saw in this video.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    PT does exist yet?

  • @juantxu3508
    @juantxu35085 ай бұрын

    Spanish Inquisition was the least violent in Europe .

  • @itcalledfootball600

    @itcalledfootball600

    3 ай бұрын

    For Christians ofc

  • @rizzllerr

    @rizzllerr

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@itcalledfootball600cry

  • @alexj.denton7453

    @alexj.denton7453

    17 күн бұрын

    ​@@itcalledfootball600you bought into the anti-christian lie. The inquisition was lit

  • @gregphillipsel9906

    @gregphillipsel9906

    16 күн бұрын

    Prove it

  • @mistersquirrel0

    @mistersquirrel0

    2 күн бұрын

    Yes, because who wouldn't want to be in a comfy chair.

  • @luisangelgonzalezmunoz7071
    @luisangelgonzalezmunoz70718 ай бұрын

    Fun fact, the catalonian kingdom never existed. In Catalonia there were several counties, most notably the county of Barcelona, but never a kingdom. Through marriage, those counties became united to the kingdom of Aragon, which was the only kingdon known to the middle age inhabitants of Catalonia.

  • @Brahmdagh
    @Brahmdagh10 ай бұрын

    In maths 'X' is a placeholder for unknown. Because Spanish translators used it for the Arabic letter "ش/sheen"(for sh sound). Which was used in Arabic in place of "Shai"(thing/entity)

  • @Personanormalycorriente
    @Personanormalycorriente11 күн бұрын

    Even tho we used to hate islamic culture in the past, muslims have left a huge cultural legacy in andalusia and Iberia in general and also nearly built up all the actual Spanish culture

  • @patricka.crawley6572
    @patricka.crawley65722 ай бұрын

    Very good video.

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs27110 ай бұрын

    giving your people a common enemy is a crucial step in getting them unified

  • @BoramK9294

    @BoramK9294

    10 ай бұрын

    this time in the Trans people

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    What a horror, my Allah!

  • @ebonymaw8457

    @ebonymaw8457

    10 ай бұрын

    @@BoramK9294 ?

  • @emmett245

    @emmett245

    10 ай бұрын

    @@BoramK9294 May God punish them

  • @BoramK9294

    @BoramK9294

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@emmett245 ok guy

  • @gonun13
    @gonun1310 ай бұрын

    Just for context, this wasn't only about a religious war. It took 8 centuries because most of the time cultures were well integrated and benefited from the islamic golden age in science and economy. Most of the times christians were fighting christians and muslims were fighting muslims. You can see that with the creation of Portugal that actually integrated the islamic golden age into it's own golden age after finally controlling the entire territory as we know it today. So it was a clash and mixing of cultures until the best of the best got out on top to take leadership in the world for the next centuries.

  • @MrMustang13

    @MrMustang13

    10 ай бұрын

    Islamic golden age was a myth. Islamic and Christian realms were virtually the same.

  • @mybodyisamachine

    @mybodyisamachine

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@MrMustang13 how do u know? Source maybe?

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Amen.🙏.

  • @darkjudge8786

    @darkjudge8786

    10 ай бұрын

    There was no Islamic golden age. That is a myth you tell yourselves because admitting that you were just warlike peasant thugs from Arabia who conquered sedentary peoples who you enslaved to become your soldiers hurts your pride. There is no time in history or any current situation that isn't worse with Islam.

  • @SiPakRubah

    @SiPakRubah

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@MrMustang13Do you even know how bad was the Medieval era in Europe, where the only people that can only learned to read is the authocratic family only, and also witch hunt is so rampant, and superstitious beliefs like black cats should be killed causing the bubonic plague in the first place? Even the Muslims at least has libraries that was shared towards everyone, has hygienes far better than European, that even when an Arab traveler went there, they say the Vikings were lack of hygiene, while they're the most hygienic European at that time

  • @miguelsilva1446
    @miguelsilva144610 ай бұрын

    I feel like you were going to talk about the batle of Ourique at 3:46 but forgot 😂 For clarification its the first major Christian victory against the Almoravids in the field and where King Afonso the first of Portugal gained the prestige and recognition to declare himself king In são mamede he just took the county

  • @Max_Skogr
    @Max_Skogr7 ай бұрын

    Reconquista is the best thing ever happened in history.

  • @AmeerMuawiyahAS

    @AmeerMuawiyahAS

    7 ай бұрын

    Nope

  • @thedonkey6704

    @thedonkey6704

    6 ай бұрын

    @@AmeerMuawiyahASif allah wanted y’all to win why didn’t he intervene…

  • @AmeerMuawiyahAS

    @AmeerMuawiyahAS

    6 ай бұрын

    @@thedonkey6704 he gave us something better CONSTANTINOPLE

  • @thedonkey6704

    @thedonkey6704

    6 ай бұрын

    @@AmeerMuawiyahAS which is absolutely useless today. It’s not even turkeys capital now. He didn’t even want you to win after that. Considering Christianity absolutely destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Sorry bud. It’s true

  • @nathantorresstanevil6958

    @nathantorresstanevil6958

    3 ай бұрын

    🗿🗿🗿

  • @Josh.G.McN.
    @Josh.G.McN.3 ай бұрын

    WE KICKED EM BACK!!!! LETS GOOO!!!

  • @itcalledfootball600

    @itcalledfootball600

    3 ай бұрын

    We kicked you guys too from Anatolia and Egypt

  • @Josh.G.McN.

    @Josh.G.McN.

    3 ай бұрын

    @@itcalledfootball600 look at those places today. Hell holes. Enjoy😘

  • @itcalledfootball600

    @itcalledfootball600

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Josh.G.McN. at least they don’t steal other countries wealth to be rich

  • @LevisH21

    @LevisH21

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@itcalledfootball600because apparently stealing when you are a Muslim is fine. lol Egypt and the Anatolian peninsula were never Islamic before roam came, you genius. the Anatolian peninsula was the native lands of Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians. and Egypt was true part of the Roman Empire and previously the Greek royal dynasty of Alexander The Great. but still, Egypt was never Islamic or Arab as it is today. and if you ask Christians in Egypt if they like the Muslim "Egyptians", they will definitely say no. Islam is a problem everywhere. not even the Hindus and Buddhists in East Asia like you.

  • @rizzllerr

    @rizzllerr

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@itcalledfootball600enjoy your desert bro

  • @anheuserbusch65
    @anheuserbusch659 ай бұрын

    Is there a book someone could recommend about the Reconquista? I've been looking for one without much luck

  • @navodmudannayaka3345
    @navodmudannayaka33452 ай бұрын

    Good video ❤

  • @heldermartins8523
    @heldermartins852310 ай бұрын

    Portugal foi o primeiro Reino a reconquistar os territórios até ao sul ( Algarve), e atualmente é o único país sobrevivente dos Reinos ibéricos medievais. Viva Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Portugal ainda existe? Vou comprá-lo da Inglaterra.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Que horror!

  • @acusticamenteconvusional9936

    @acusticamenteconvusional9936

    10 ай бұрын

    España es básicamente la unión del resto de reinos

  • @llawliet1391

    @llawliet1391

    10 ай бұрын

    Olá, sou brasileiro descendente de portugueses e amo Portugal também. Nosso pai. Embora tenham roubado riquezas naturais daqui, não odeio Portugal por isso já que isso era comum nessa época.

  • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox

    @MaximusAugustusOrthodox

    10 ай бұрын

    God bless Portugal 🙏

  • @paulstott5130
    @paulstott513010 ай бұрын

    Can we have another one please ! So ready for the Sequal!

  • @pliniojr95
    @pliniojr954 ай бұрын

    As a brazilian, it's crazy to think i wouldn't exist if the the kingdom of Asturias hadn't resisted against the moors, because the age of navigations probably wouldn't exist and Brazil wouldn't be created. Thanks iberian christians for the reconquista.

  • @gregphillipsel9906

    @gregphillipsel9906

    16 күн бұрын

    And you think that euro colonization of the Americas was a good thing?

  • @pliniojr95

    @pliniojr95

    16 күн бұрын

    @@gregphillipsel9906 well, i wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them.

  • @99EKjohn

    @99EKjohn

    10 күн бұрын

    ​@@gregphillipsel9906 it was a good thing, sorry you know nothing about history.

  • @user-iy8hx2ci2p

    @user-iy8hx2ci2p

    3 күн бұрын

    1..the Aztec empire slave the majority indegen people and used to human sacrifice .. ...the Inca empire the same.. 2..Britain exterminated the native people..and like slavery. 3..france the same... 4..Spain mixed with native people, and Christianity finished the slavery ..

  • @MuggyMeasures
    @MuggyMeasures4 ай бұрын

    How fantastic of them to push Islam out. Brilliant!

  • @Porto.358
    @Porto.3589 ай бұрын

    Atualmente a península ibérica precisa de uma reconquista 2.0 .

  • @eliasindbad8651

    @eliasindbad8651

    8 ай бұрын

    Fatima , this Islamic name became the symbol of Catholics in our era. We shall never forget Portugal and Sr.Lucia ❤🇵🇹

  • @QuijoteModerno

    @QuijoteModerno

    5 ай бұрын

    Estamos en ello hermano

  • @elkingoh4543

    @elkingoh4543

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@eliasindbad8651Amen ✝️🙏

  • @royjulianus3830
    @royjulianus383010 ай бұрын

    It almost happenned to ottoman. Russian empire at the ninth russo-turkish war (19th century) already very closed to constantinople, but england as ottoman ally at that time stopped it.

  • @levitatingpotato109

    @levitatingpotato109

    8 ай бұрын

    Protestants at it again with the anti Christian acts.

  • @Historiaymas.
    @Historiaymas.23 күн бұрын

    Nice video

  • @radurozor4742
    @radurozor47427 күн бұрын

    Cordoba and Granada are such beautiful cities, you can feel the history. Al Hambra and the Cordoba Mosque are a must to see when you travel to Spain.

  • @alexnavarro6941
    @alexnavarro694110 ай бұрын

    That's what happened in short. Very short. Just a little thing to add. Alfonso X not only translated just literature. He compiled encyclopedias about history and science too.

  • @savagesurpreme7856
    @savagesurpreme78568 ай бұрын

    Deus vault love to Spain for doing what needed to be done

  • @theKCMOPAR
    @theKCMOPAR9 ай бұрын

    If you would like to play either side of the conflict, you can in atilla total war, it's a DLC but can get cheap on sale or G2A

  • @uptown_rider8078
    @uptown_rider807810 ай бұрын

    God bless Spain and Portugal for defending their land, and reconquering the Iberian peninsula 🇪🇸🇵🇹

  • @hinduismroaster

    @hinduismroaster

    10 ай бұрын

    Islam is the fastest growing religion in Spain and Portugal 😁

  • @knighthospitaller634

    @knighthospitaller634

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@hinduismroaster and then we kick them again

  • @Indresh2468

    @Indresh2468

    10 ай бұрын

    @@hinduismroaster reconquista v2

  • @samvel_mmiii

    @samvel_mmiii

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@hinduismroasterNot really

  • @miraajmuhammad666

    @miraajmuhammad666

    10 ай бұрын

    @@knighthospitaller634this time we kick you out & will make you cross ❎ ppl bow down to Islam ☪️ life or ☠️😁try this time

  • @vitorpereira9515
    @vitorpereira951510 ай бұрын

    Eu tenho muito orgulho dos meus valorosos ancestrais! 🇧🇷🇵🇹

  • @andirios333

    @andirios333

    10 ай бұрын

    Eso mismo 🇲🇽🇪🇸

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    @@andirios333 Mexico does exist yet?

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Meus pêsames.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Congratulations to you. Return soon and always.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Que horror!

  • @Gebeleizis.
    @Gebeleizis.7 ай бұрын

    I often talk to Africans of different origins, and they always incriminate the Europeans of being arrogant and avid invaders. However, when I remind them of this part of the history, and the Carthage invasion as well, they suddenly get disoriented.

  • @gregphillipsel9906

    @gregphillipsel9906

    7 ай бұрын

    How would that make anyone disoriented. Claiming that others did it too doesn't absolve Europeans from anything

  • @BenjaLezo

    @BenjaLezo

    6 ай бұрын

    @@gregphillipsel9906. You didn’t understand his point. The problem with many Africans and other races is that they love just pointing the finger at Europeans for Conquests and colonialism when Africa invaded us first as well as the Mongolians and ottomans and when Spain and other European nations who for generations were trampled on by these other nations rose up and OBLITERATED their enemies and conquered most of the World then they want to call them The bad guys and accuse only them of conquests.

  • @stefandusan9629

    @stefandusan9629

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@gregphillipsel9906Its reality

  • @orestilamadaseva3936

    @orestilamadaseva3936

    12 күн бұрын

    Don't say European, better say English, Netherlanders, Belgian and French. But mostly English (and their heirs, the USA). Making "European" culprit of British "deeds" is like making black Africans responsible of the conquest of Spania and Indonesian of the conquest of Constantinople 😂

  • @Constant1ne__
    @Constant1ne__24 күн бұрын

    I'm just saying it what every reasonable European watching this is thinking: We need a new reconquista. Besides politics, this is an amazing and educative video...

  • @AbbasMastan7
    @AbbasMastan710 ай бұрын

    Great Sir

  • @philipmarchalquizar7741
    @philipmarchalquizar77417 ай бұрын

    I love to see movie about this reconquesta.

  • @mjnaz65
    @mjnaz658 ай бұрын

    All of Europe may find it necessary for a reconquista of it's own very soon.

  • @shyper_

    @shyper_

    8 күн бұрын

    Yep thats what ive been saying in a few years all of this will eventually happen again but in the whole entire of europe, and we're losing all of it without a single fight

  • @eark3425
    @eark342510 ай бұрын

    Cool video

  • @stilianjordanov2952
    @stilianjordanov295210 ай бұрын

    What is the name of the soundtrack from 5:02 to 7:47 I just listened?

  • @YberDC
    @YberDC9 ай бұрын

    The "kingdom of catalonia" was never such, it was a principality. Sadly as of modern times, this is an important difference. The ruler of that area was a Baron, not a King.

  • @philly442
    @philly4427 күн бұрын

    Jewish leadership of Toledo collaborated with Tariq the Umayyad commander who sent scouts then led forces to slaughter, they were not expelled "for no reason" like they always claim, they were expelled because this was known for 700 years.

  • @LuisBita
    @LuisBita10 ай бұрын

    Best Regards from Portugal

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Portugal ainda existe?

  • @theroadents1141
    @theroadents11419 ай бұрын

    I love the stories of the Reconquista. And this coming from one of the great-great grandsons of the Invading Moors.

  • @SmokingLaddy

    @SmokingLaddy

    8 ай бұрын

    I call bullshit. If your g-g-grandfather was one of the invading moors then each generation would have had to have a child at over 106 years old, successively 5 generation in a row. That is assuming your g-g-grandad was 16 when the reconquista ended, and that you are 16 today. 531 years would actually be around 21 generations, I am 31 and my g-g-grandfather was born in the late 1800s, not late 1400s.

  • @javiervll8077
    @javiervll807710 ай бұрын

    As a Spaniard 🇪🇸 that lives in the city of Valladolid (capital city of Castile and León), I approve this video 👍🏻😎 Btw, I’ve also been living in Córdoba, and it’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world 😍, its Arabic legacy 🕌 is amazing!

  • @Ihavpickle

    @Ihavpickle

    10 ай бұрын

    Ok

  • @brixcosmo6849

    @brixcosmo6849

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes it is! As a Portuguese Architect i gotta love the Palace/Fortress of Alhambra in Granada, Spain, among a lot of other Arabic Influences left in Architecture and other aspects of our Cultures. We treasure those influences the same way we treasure Roman Influences as much weird as that can sound for who doesn't know Portuguese and Spanish History.

  • @rohankishibe8259

    @rohankishibe8259

    10 ай бұрын

    Don't you guys have a hate boner for the Arabs yet you love their architecture... Least hypocritical European I guess.

  • @vladtheimpaler5454

    @vladtheimpaler5454

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@rohankishibe8259 dont you hate western countries but ready to die to come to Western countries..funny little moslem..

  • @InAeternumRomaMater

    @InAeternumRomaMater

    10 ай бұрын

    Cordoba already existed prior to the Islamic invaders, its a Roman legacy

  • @PantalonRouge
    @PantalonRouge26 күн бұрын

    Reconquista p.2 neededddddd

  • @CarlosGarcia-op9kg
    @CarlosGarcia-op9kg3 ай бұрын

    They should make a series out of this almost like game of thrones or Vikings!

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge631610 ай бұрын

    Interesting and informative video

  • @NerickovaNoha
    @NerickovaNoha4 ай бұрын

    Europe will possibly need to be "reconquisted" again.

  • @rizzllerr

    @rizzllerr

    2 ай бұрын

    I pray for it

  • @NerickovaNoha

    @NerickovaNoha

    2 ай бұрын

    @@rizzllerr Same

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    Ай бұрын

    Yep

  • @mhm6262

    @mhm6262

    Ай бұрын

    Cope

  • @Luckyfetus1

    @Luckyfetus1

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@@mhm6262Ooi Muhamad, what are you doing in Reconquista video,

  • @chufa72
    @chufa728 ай бұрын

    This video misrepresents history somewhat. It wasn’t always a Christian vs. Islam deal. Often there were Christians allied with Muslims against other Christians. Also, the kingdom of Catalonia never existed, and the kingdom of Galicia is missing from the period of Ordoño II in the tenth century.

  • @marcothebarber764
    @marcothebarber7645 ай бұрын

    As a Iberian I'm proud of my ancestors did, D. PELAGIO is the warrior king 👑 of all Iberians, from Algarve to basque country, and Galiza to Catalunia and everything between

  • @asturiasceltic3183

    @asturiasceltic3183

    2 ай бұрын

    Are you forgetting where Pelagius was from and the cradle of the Reconquest? ASTURIAS.. the only region never conquered by the Moors.

  • @franciscojavierp.7162
    @franciscojavierp.716212 күн бұрын

    I really like the idea that a website like this one, with more than a million and a half followers, makes a video about a specific period in the history of the current states of Spain and Portugal. It is a very good way for those who are interested to learn something new. Having said this in the first place, since I consider it the most important thing, I must also say the negative part. I find it very worrying that a channel that appears to be quite well documented, talks about the "Kingdom of Catalonia". Such a kingdom never existed, since Catalonia was a County subordinated to the crown of Aragon, in Catalonia there was never a king. A Count was a vassal nobleman who was subordinated to the orders of a king, just as today a Province is still part of the State. The relations were logically different from those of this example, but to speak of the Kingdom of Catalonia is a serious mistake that, if not corrected, will cause greater confusion in the future.

  • @whimsiquisitive
    @whimsiquisitive8 ай бұрын

    Never loose hope. Even with nearly all the country occupied the Spanish managed to take it all back.

  • @AMITKumar-fn3qo

    @AMITKumar-fn3qo

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes

  • @janrudnicki6111
    @janrudnicki611114 күн бұрын

    Very good

  • @kiwipuy
    @kiwipuy8 ай бұрын

    La escuela de Toledo worked both ways, translations from Cristian languages to Arabic and jewish and vice versa.

  • @dillonwheeler7484
    @dillonwheeler748410 ай бұрын

    Drinking game for watching knowledgia. Whenever the narrator says nevertheless/nonetheless take a drink 🍸

  • @franciscoamezcua6338
    @franciscoamezcua633810 ай бұрын

    It should be REMARKED that was said at 2:53 it is TOTALLY FALSE. There wasnt a Catalonian kingdom, just a bunch of minor counties. It wasnt until the marriage of the queen Petronilla of Aragon with Berenguer, Count of Barcelona (and posterior promotion to principality) that we will see the birth of the Crown of Aragon. With all due respect, i think you guys should have investigated more about the topic.

  • @octavicolom4562

    @octavicolom4562

    10 ай бұрын

    The county of barcelona was more powerful than the kingdom of aragon ruled by petronila a 13 year old. Berenguer married her to effectively take control of Aragon and get the jure recognition,however in reality the catalan counties had been defacto independant for quite a while (they even had their own separate laws that were kept functioning in the principality of catalonia as a successor to what was a group of counties until the 17th century, in an equal relationship to the kingdom of aragon and the kingdom of valencia as part of the crown of aragon). This is a nomenclature issue more than real power or geopolitical relevance. The principality of monaco is independent without being a kingdom in the same way the catalan counties including the barcelona one were. An entity doesnt necessarily need to be a kingdom for a piece of land to be considered its own state. Catalonia itself might be incorrect at that time (although however in the crown of aragon the catalan counties were known as the principality or catalonia) but in a map it is easier to write that than specify all the different small counties that definition would need to include. Spanish nationalists always try to disregard catalan history all based in a pedophile relationship between Ramon Berenguer and Petronila of aragon, a 13 year old, a good, strong historic claim!

  • @franciscoamezcua6338

    @franciscoamezcua6338

    10 ай бұрын

    @@octavicolom4562 Yeah. So as i said, the ´´Kingdom of Catalonia´´ didnt exist as the video says. However, i agree with you, Barcelona being the center of power of the Crown is the reason why catalan became the court language of Aragon and the only one to expand, and not aragonese. I didnt mention any of the actual separatist/independence movement because both catalans and spanish get triggered so easily.

  • @popeyethesa1lorman

    @popeyethesa1lorman

    10 ай бұрын

    Most of History we are taught at school is totally false. The video gets more right than wrong. A very good video still cannot please everyone

  • @juls6599

    @juls6599

    10 ай бұрын

    @@octavicolom4562even if it was more powerful, it wasn’t a kingdom, no such title existed

  • @wonderwiseS2

    @wonderwiseS2

    9 ай бұрын

    @@franciscoamezcua6338 They should fight for independence, Spain is not an union it's Castile absorbing everyone else. Look at Galícia and Asturias their culture and native languages are dying.

  • @antoniocandido2678
    @antoniocandido26788 ай бұрын

    Viva a reconquista cristã! one of the most important historical periods that is being left in the background so as not to increase tensions in europe.

  • @knight8675
    @knight867510 ай бұрын

    Stay strong iberian brothers ✝💪

  • @AlphaSections

    @AlphaSections

    10 ай бұрын

    You're God damn right!!

  • @miraajmuhammad666

    @miraajmuhammad666

    10 ай бұрын

    AllahuAKBAR Islam will win all over the world via spiritual way All mankind were born Muslims 😎

  • @abelmedina8443
    @abelmedina84439 ай бұрын

    Catalonia never existed as a kingdom or any kind of political entity. It was created later as a principality by the Crown of Aragon, without political comsequences.

  • @ksodz1397

    @ksodz1397

    9 ай бұрын

    County of Barcelona was more or less within the borders of catalonia

  • @abelmedina8443

    @abelmedina8443

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ksodz1397 No, Counties of Barcelona, Osona and Gerona were ruled by the count of Barcelona, but the others (Besalú, Cerdaña, Rosellón, Ampurias, Lérida, Tortosa, etc) used to have its own count before they were conquered or incorporated to Aragon. Catalonia was created later by the Crown of Aragon in order to join those heterogeneous territories into the territory of the realm of Aragon.

  • @Clone683
    @Clone68310 ай бұрын

    6:03 is a familiar sight if you play EU4

  • @NoobHammer
    @NoobHammer16 күн бұрын

    awesome

  • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
    @saguntum-iberian-greekkons701410 ай бұрын

    No shame of repulsing the invaders who treated us like shit! VIVA LA RECONQUISTA IBERICA!

  • @youwhat491

    @youwhat491

    10 ай бұрын

    why did the holy spanish go on an invade latin america, treat it like BullSh1t, hypocritical spanish

  • @adamnesico

    @adamnesico

    10 ай бұрын

    @@youwhat491 because for survive the colonisation they had to became expansive xenophobic colonizers. Muslims with their oppression created a monster. Too because muslims refused to share spices with them.

  • @aahil7586

    @aahil7586

    10 ай бұрын

    Bruh

  • @basedkaiser5352

    @basedkaiser5352

    8 ай бұрын

    Yes.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte719810 ай бұрын

    The tail end of the Reconquista, seeing how it is nearly complete, allowed the 2 states to shift their energies towards the seas as well.

  • @EligioCazzaniga

    @EligioCazzaniga

    9 ай бұрын

    It is politically incorrect to talk about Christians and Muslims since we are talking about colonizing occupiers and the anti-colonizing anti-imperialist resistance of Iberian natives, so it is politically correct to talk about occupiers and natives, occupation and resistance, colonization and liberation.

  • @DerEiserneBuerger
    @DerEiserneBuerger10 ай бұрын

    Nice Video!

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Minion.

  • @futurixta
    @futurixta13 күн бұрын

    There are a few thing bad in this video. -The "infamous" Spanish inquisition started in 1492, after the reconquista was finished. It's estimated there were 1000 executions (in the whole empire 31M pop, not just Spain) between 1530-1630 and 250 between 1630 and 1730. While in Germany (with less population 16M pop, and in a short period) executed 2500. All of this AFTER the reconquista -Catalonia was not a Kingdom, they not were even united at all, they were a group of independent counties. -Asturias was not an independent or different Kingdom, it's the succesor of the Visigoth Kingdom, the ones who exile from the rest of the peninsula seek shelter there -The kingdom of Portugal appears from the Kingdom of Galicia (that later was annexed by Leon), not from Leon -The Catholic Kings invaded Granada cause the new Emir refuse to keep the payments not just for "intolerance". Great animations and good resume

  • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox
    @MaximusAugustusOrthodox10 ай бұрын

    Thank God that happen! God bless Portugal and Spain 🙏❤️

  • @mateenundre1415

    @mateenundre1415

    10 ай бұрын

    Same for Constantinople thanks to allah

  • @jpor7259

    @jpor7259

    10 ай бұрын

    @@mateenundre1415ol Christianity went from being cornered to conquering an entire continent out of nowhere. It’s almost like God meant Christianity and the Spanish people to spread after the crusade of Granada. If He’s picking favorites, it’s not Turkey because the Balkans went on to spit out their language and culture.

  • @themercifulguard3971

    @themercifulguard3971

    10 ай бұрын

    @@jpor7259 Christianity went from conquering an entire continent to being humiliated by sodomites in the modern day.

  • @houseboyx333

    @houseboyx333

    10 ай бұрын

    @@mateenundre1415 stupid muslim comment haha

  • @drumshero03

    @drumshero03

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks to the Franks, actually

  • @ANGLORUSSIANCZ
    @ANGLORUSSIANCZ10 ай бұрын

    Thus the story goes full circle. The jews were expelled upon completion of the Reconquista after both Latin and Arabic chroniclers recorded that is was the jews who "opened the gates of Toledo" to Tariq allowing the conquest in 711.

  • @flyingfoamtv2169

    @flyingfoamtv2169

    10 ай бұрын

    jews supported tariq because they were horrendusly treeted under the visigoths.

  • @cmd7930

    @cmd7930

    10 ай бұрын

    Always that chose people making trouble yet they always claim they are the victims

  • @mrmaxaxl
    @mrmaxaxl8 ай бұрын

    We need another reconquista ASAP

  • @nashedanonino5810
    @nashedanonino581010 ай бұрын

    the thing is that in a sort of way iberian christian kingdoms had always been very devoted and the cultures of Iberian Visigothic origin kinda gave away a huge sense of religious responsibility onto the christian iberian cultures, and cultures like Castillian Aragonesse and galacian were not only heavily influenced by christianity but chatolisism itself, and unlike muslims this huge cultural-religion hybridization helped not only maintain huge devotion towards the catholic church but also maintain huge amounts of order and identity within the catholic cultures, wich was the complete opposite of muslim iberian cultures, wich were very divided by the many branches of islam that existed in the kingdoms for many years, this mostly didn't help unite the lands unlike christian kingdoms, also is worth noticing that spanish(christian) identity on its own is very strong and this can be seen in divergent hybrid cultures of Spanish culture from the new world (Mexican, Argentinian, Chilean, Colombian, Dominican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, etc..) many of this cultures even thought have huge masses of populations today with different religious backgrounds most of this ones weather are mostly of native descent or more european descent still have huge masses of christian-culture hybridization having many holidays and many other religious catholic practices stil being practiced by every religious group this because of how strong the relation between Catholicism and Spanish culture is and can be seen in divergent cultures, another thing worth focusing is that cultures like dominican where they had been under control and more influence by spanish colonist the percentage of catholics is arround 57 and evangelist are 25 and the rest have no religion thats an insane percentage of christians where compared to countries like chile wich have similar population only 48% is catholic showing how a little bit more of time and control in influence from spanish culture can heavily influence a region about cristianity i mean the most catholic continent in the world is America (South and Central America along Caribbean for Gringos) this due to the iberian influence of portuguese and spanish showing that really the most devoted of european cultures are christian iberian ones.

  • @fenrir7878

    @fenrir7878

    4 ай бұрын

    Spanish Christians were far from unified. The victory of Asturias was a bee sting the Ummayad behemoth. And many of the Christians that layer emerged, Leon, Castile, Navarre, Aragon, Portugal spent many centuries trying to outmanuever each other land disputes, saying, assassination, incitement of revellion, and somes even outright war. It wasn't till later they unified under a crusader banner. That didn’t stop them from appeasing or vassalixong Muslim lords and enlisting their soldiers among Christian tanks.

  • @timtom4812
    @timtom48129 ай бұрын

    If we don’t watch out we have to do it again !

  • @juls6599
    @juls659910 ай бұрын

    Also most of the Muslims in the peninsula where visigoths and ibero-romans, the only Arabs or African Muslims that stayed in the peninsula were politicians, nobles and high rank military, so there wasn’t a lot of inter-racial marriages. Forgot to comment about the foundation of Ceuta and Melilla, the wars between Muslims and Muslims and Christians with Christians and the civil wars

  • @adamnesico

    @adamnesico

    10 ай бұрын

    Thats not true, there was free transit in muslim world.

  • @Muh_Daffa_Anshari
    @Muh_Daffa_Anshari3 ай бұрын

    In this video we can learn a lot about the importance of unity

  • @jordi6795
    @jordi679510 ай бұрын

    Great video! Very well summarised! 👍👍👍 Only worth to mention at about minute 02:50 : initially, the original lands of Catalonia where a handful of counties, the main of them under the rule/vassalage of the County of Barcelona (founded in the year 801), the actual origin of Catalonia; a more precise denomination would be Barcelona instead of Catalonia thought (the term "Catalonia" would explicitly appear a bit latter, at about the 12th century), also worth to mention that Catalonia had never been "officially" a kingdom, never existed the "Kingdom of Catalonia" properly, but on the other side, the County of Barcelona was such a powerful and independent (since 988) one that matched, equalised, the neighbouring kingdoms actually. So it can be said that it was a kind of a kingdom (yet for the sake of simplification/summarisation, it is perfectly acceptable and comprehensive to call it Catalonia nonetheless), therefore it explains why it was able to join its neighbouring Kingdom of Aragon (created in and independent since 1035) to form together the Crown of Aragon (in the year 1137). 🟨🟥🟨🟥🟨🟥🟨🟥🟨

  • @juanmanueljorgeleonarte5038

    @juanmanueljorgeleonarte5038

    10 ай бұрын

    Forgetting the "de facto" and way more powerful kingdom of Valencia in the Corona de Aragón.

  • @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536

    10 ай бұрын

    Amen.🙏.

  • @amityboy14mo
    @amityboy14mo8 күн бұрын

    Great video but wish you mentioned Queen Urraca and Queen Petronilla. You just skipped from King Alfonso VI to King Alfonso VII without mentioning Queen Urraca!! :(

  • @Mustang1984
    @Mustang198410 ай бұрын

    So cool to learn about history from parts of the world that don't get as much love (at least in the US). Very interesting.

  • @giltheseal3410

    @giltheseal3410

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@c.b.3883​ sounding quite bitter for a nation that did exactly the same things as those "toothless pirates" 😂😂 You aren't a victim because your country lost a war after mass genocide in the name of colonialism 😂

  • @belomenhas

    @belomenhas

    10 ай бұрын

    @@c.b.3883 "How can you love Spain when you stole our land of America." girl america stole its land from the indigenous ppls, whats the point ur trying to make lmao

  • @mugikuyu9403

    @mugikuyu9403

    10 ай бұрын

    @@c.b.3883 you discovered the Americas and enslayved it’s people and rayped them out of existence. Are we suppose to feel sorry for you, savages? You came off much better than you deserved.

  • @muscledavis5434

    @muscledavis5434

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@c.b.3883 Calm down, Spanish didn't explore all of America and it's not like you didn't get enough of it😂

  • @kaspermarthinsenbjerg138

    @kaspermarthinsenbjerg138

    10 ай бұрын

    this isnt the best history channel though. I recommend Kings and Generals and Jabzy. Its my impression that they do much better research and have a much broader and more nuanced historical understanding.

  • @gustavomolinari7522
    @gustavomolinari75229 ай бұрын

    Any historian which calls the inquisition INFAMOUS, is totally not a serious historian....

  • @conceptsound5

    @conceptsound5

    8 ай бұрын

    Exactly, The Moorish invasion of Iberia began in 711 AD, and the last Moorish kingdom in Iberia fell in 1492 AD. So, 781 years for the average person is pretty much as good as forever. The fact that Northern Christians were able to adapt, and take back their lands from the Muslims starting from 718: Battle of Covadonga to 1492: The Fall of Grenda is beyond impressive

  • @mrabdi851

    @mrabdi851

    6 ай бұрын

    Forced Conversions are not good, yes

  • @99EKjohn

    @99EKjohn

    10 күн бұрын

    ​@@mrabdi851tell that to the Muslims.