As requested I took all six videos on the Reconquista and stitched them together into one big one. Its over an hour long! If you like it, please share on social media or share it with that special someone who would love to listen about this insanely awesome time period. Definitely pass it along to some who is from Asturias, Leon, Navarre, Aragon, Portugal, Castile, or Andalucia! All the best in the mean time. Episode 10: Reconquista - The Next Generation, is already under production!

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

Portuguese are proud of their King Afonso, O Henrique....his courage, bravery and wisdom is speaked off even today - he fought underhanded most of the times and the portuguese man were ferocious in battle, never giving up

"Assassinated under suspicious circumstances", love that line.

Thank you! Not enough significance has been given to Portugal and Spain in the history of the holy wars. Most people have heard of the Hundred Years War but nobody talks about the 700 year Reconquista. Keep up the good work!

Europe needs a new Reconquista

I'm speechless

If you had made this 20 years ago I would not have had to read 40 books on this for my master's degree in history. You put it together better than I've ever would have been able to. Kudos my friend!

It's unfortunate that the Byzantines weren't able to renconquer Asia Minor from the Turks in 1453. The Spaniards and Portuguese were able to recapture Iberian Peninsula.

Oh this is so absolutely convenient. Pressing play now!

A war fought for 780 years is simply mind boggling. Great video!

What is the game of Thrones compared with la Reconquista

I am Vietnamese and I LOVE Portugal! Beautiful land, very nice people and great culture!

So how many Alfonsos do you have?

As the Spaniard adage goes "Spain is Asturias and the rest is conquered Land." This is the reason why even the modern day Spanish royalty enshrines itself with tittles such as the Prince or Princess of Asturias. As someone of heavy Asturian blood, from the geographical backwater that it is, where mountains that once had ore and were hydraulically mined to the ground millennia ago, this video does some justice.

Brilliant synopsis of the Spanish re-conquest. All major battles seem to have been covered expertly. Thank you!

+10 points for playing Asturias when talking about Asturias.

Very happy to find this; the Reconquista was a major part of my independent college experience for me. I've had to learn Spanish in school since I was 5 but I never liked it until I linked linguistics to geography, culture, and history. I taught myself Portuguese too and recognized the Reconquista as the birth of the modern world; had it not been for the Reconquista our world today would not exist. It was not Spain, but Portugal, that began it all, but Spain truly brought the world together. I became very happy to realize that the linguistic origin of my name is not Italian, though I ethnically am, but it is either Portuguese or Spanish. I belong to this culture, these world-creators!

Thank you for this unbiased history of Spain and Portugal. My family is originally from Navarre, and this story is fascinating.

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