WHO WERE THE MOORS? DNA ANALYSIS

[@aripg359]

Wow! My brother did his DNA, along with our parents. We have middle Easter blood, along with some Jewish, Spanish, Portuguese, and norther African blood. We are from Mexico.

[@roinujdnalevelc2235]

Hispanic means property of Spain right?

[@lapislazulii141]

You are a Caucasian 💙

[@sheikhsaju-bw6nm]

You should back to Islam it your ancestors Religion christian forcefully convert them to Christianity 😢

[@fztheamazighiya1047]

@@lapislazulii141lol stay away from us we are not white we are Iberomaurusians

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

Happy Easter Egg!

[@pepepena1937]

In Cuba one of the most famous rice is "Moros y Cristianos" which is Black Beans and Rice

[@lissyperez4299]

Que rico 😂!

[@BrianStanleyEsq]

The beans are the Moors and the rice is the Christians, in case you haven't guessed.

[@pepepena1937]

@@BrianStanleyEsq I know and the pork cracklings with the moors taste delicious 😂😂😂😂

[@jeffbillings-el6110]

Hey, pepepena 1937, did you know Cuba was Moorish territory??? Christopher Columbus wrote in his journal that when he came to America's He said that he saw Islamic a Mosque on the hills of Cuba . What most doesn't know is the Americas was all Moorish territory, North ,Central, and South America was Moorish territory. The Moors were the ones that brought Islam to the Americas , The Americas was called [ The AL-MAGHRED ], meaning the farthest West . Just to put you on point !

[@FeelMetalMan]

​@@jeffbillings-el6110 I'll take this is a mockery to a comment that was deleted or something

[@arturoarche4113]

I want to congratulate you on this video. I am of Spanish ancestry and certainly must have a cocktail of ethnicities. This is due to the fact that not only my ancestors came from various parts of Mother Spain but that the Iberian Peninsula has always been a melting pot a crossroads of different empires, peoples and cultures. This makes my ancestral homeland one of the most interesting, unique and marvelous countries not only in Europe but in the world. I really enjoyed your video. Hope that the future ones are as informative and interesting as this one. Greetings from Puerto Rico.

[@josega6338]

Jose Meir Estrugo (Scrooge) born in Cuba, who claimed being jewish and freemason, wrote in 'Los sefardíes': 'Spaniards are not and never were racists' Yes, many peoples arrived to Iberian peninsula, but at different times, and with different ways of acting. Some are clearly outsiders from Europe, aggresive invaders.

[@Daron7181]

What’s often the glossed over is not all black Africans are sub-Saharan Africans. Remember that the Sahara wasn’t always a desert. There are still relict populations of blacks that live there.

[@tonybuono-x3c]

You mean Invaders, not "Avengers" right?

[@tonybuono-x3c]

Colón Colony?

[@robertshumake3893]

The is funny coming from a Puerto Rican seeing as most ppl from the Caribbean are actually of African descent. unless you are a white Puerto Rican the likelihood is, that like most of the island, genetic ancestry is African

[@paullim1933]

if you go further back in time there was even more mixing. Carthage was also in all of southern spain. before them were the greeks. after them, the romans. after the romans, the visigoths. so that huge mix resulted in the gorgeous spaniards we see today, pale to olive skin, dark hair, and often light eyed. strikingly beautiful. most gorgeous in europe i think.

[@lapislazulii141]

Caucasians

[@lapislazulii141]

@nigelmcgiver2275💯

[@stevolopez]

Caucasian.... like from the Caucasus mountains?

[@Ese361]

​@@lapislazulii141Southern Europeans like the Italians Greeks

[@GhostRIley-sl3rn]

Most beautiful? Isn't that title for the blonde blue eyed tall stature Aryan looking Scandinavians?

[@sidobaak7931]

I 'M from Morocco and recently I did a test DNA .The result was 75,7% north African and 18,5 Iberian

[@EphraimiteSoldier713]

Actually you're results are bogus... The people in that region today are descendants of Greek and Roman invaders.

[@eastafrika728]

North Afrikan from the 13 the century

[@maalfons]

Well no trace of moors dna in andulucia

[@maalfons]

According to university of granada .the rest is a story

[@eastafrika728]

@@maalfons University of Granada, department of history? Let's find out

[@carmen47freixas96]

Spain is very diverse, all people came and conquered. I was born in Barcelona and they called my( avi ) pop the Viking, he was tall, blue eyed and very fair, his 3 daughters too, my mum was the youngest, the 4 grand kids, we are the same, and 2 of my adult children too... so, who knows where people come from, we are all mixed.

[@wor53lg50]

Spain is European, and should have never been ME or African!!, nor should it still.

[@lissyperez4299]

Lol us too, Cuban, I am fair skinned and have green eyes, my sister looks middle eastern brown eyes and darker skinned.

[@cush5147]

Your talking blonde hair and blue eyes but the topic is about the black Moors

[@carmen47freixas96]

@@cush5147 True, just making a point, I went off the topic, thanks.

[@josega6338]

Spain never existed, it was a branding iron from the bloody roman empire. Before the roman invasion, there were some local kingdoms in Iberian peninsula, a name coming from other newcomers, travelling from Transcaucasian Iberia, but most were 'city-states', Baskes never gave themselves any political organization beyond hamlets. You know in 'Pyrenees orientales' there is river called 'Muga', 'border' in Baske, same as 'Jalón' river meant border between Baskes and CeltIberians. You may have goth ancestry, as around 4th century, Geroncio, a roman general involved in a fight for empire, opened way to alans, swabians and vandals, which prowled Gallia. Result was chaos, a church writer recorded: 'Wild beasts, fattened on corpses of those who starved, started attacking the living' Visigoths (from kingdom with capital in Toulouse; the Ostrogoths, same people, had capital in Ravenna), were attacked by the francs, with the excuse of being Aryans in religion, while francs were catholic. Goths, their king Alaric defeated the Western roman empire, had no other place to go than the Iberian peninsula, 400'000 Goths arrived, having started the journey long, long ago in Gottland island, Burgundians came from Bornholm island, the Iberian Peninsula had then 4 million inhabitants. With the roman power faded, Goths started ruling with their own laws and authorities, and made themselves pay with land, 'the Goth third', but always collected less taxes than romans. That's all, folks!

[@maths8458]

I don't understand how black people can claim moor's history when the moor's family names, history, architecture and musical styles are still present amongst Northern African only...

[@theoperative3988]

Black folk are choosing to accept the erroneous depictions by non-Iberian European painters coupled with wishful thinking and lazy fallacious scholarship plus inferiority complex of their real history

[@bethbartlett5692]

DNA should clarify it, but the DNA Companies have some inappropriate Labels: Like using 1 City Group and Religion for all: Jews. Using Iberian for Basque and Spanish. That's like using Irish for Catholics. Why mix Religion with DNA Origin? It's like they want the Public to be ignorant, misguided. I really don't understand why their label system is acceptable, by Academics 8r Scientists.

[@benkubenku1]

Why can't Africans and Blacks of America claim it? These are our ancestors...I'm Ghanaian with a huge Moorish/Berber back ground. "family names, history, architecture and musical styles are so present amongst Northern Africa only". Which part of North Africa are you from? Your comment is confusing...you seem to be lacking context in your comment. Explain your comment.

[@alfredvazquez5380]

Ghana has nothing to do with moors or Berbers, moors is a simple term to describe Muslims during their conquest in Spain. There are some black but most of them are white you can see this in the art and literature.@@benkubenku1

[@Oakeshott-ko8ig]

Because sense and education is not their strong suit, and they're free to be as racist as they want to be, given the double standard.

[@hydnars]

In Spanish you would spell the name of the city Córdoba, where the ó with the accent mark tells you it's the emphasized vowel. So you would pronounce it "CORdoba" with the emphasis on the first o

[@AncestralBrew]

The AI programme I use doesn’t do a good job with Spanish.

[@nf3959]

@@AncestralBrew It's very jarring to hear Córdoba mispronounced over and over.

[@roiq5263]

What if he is saying it in English?

[@FannyPlusvi]

​@@roiq5263 why in english would it be Cordóba changing the accent?

[@roiq5263]

@@FannyPlusvi why not?

[@AlbertoRodriguez.-]

Some inhabitants were indistinguishable from current Spaniards because a large part were Hispanic converts to Islam, not because they necessarily had North African blood. It is more than proven that in Spain there was hardly any genetic trace left, only in specific areas and the percentage is minimal. That is really what is surprising and that we have not lost our cultural identity, the one left by Rome makes sense because of everything that happened during and after (expulsions, etc.), he need and constant effort to highlight something like this begins to seem quite strange, obsessive not to say absurd, which also only serves to create confusion in historical issues, especially taking into account that Spain was not the only place in Europe occupied by Muslims.. By the way, those words stuck 800 can be found in English, French, Italian... that is because the Arabs were dedicated to commerce and those words were acquired in common use by the population

[@Anzar2011]

Even if there was no Califat for 800 years in Spain, Spanish and North Africans would be still related Genetically, because Iberians, most probably came from North Africa in the first place. Without even going that far in history, Romans had Numidians in their Ranks (North Africans) they even had a few Emperors from North Africa, Septimus Severus is the most famous. The General who conquered Iberia for the Romans is a Berber prince (Jugurtha). All this to say that the interactions were older than Islam itself, and that populations intermixed since thousands of years. Now, coming back to the Califat, claiming that berbers were present 800 years in Spain without any mixing with local populations, is not very reasonable. Furthermore, there were tribes that converted to Christianty and fought alongside the Spaniards. So for sure most southern Spanish today have some North African DNA.

[@Alejojojo6]

Yeah Arabs and North Africans made less than 8% of the Population at it's highest (arabs were a tiny elite or 1-2%, and Berbers about 6%). Their genetic legacy is minimal. Visigoths were 10% of the population with Germans like Vandals etc adding like another 5%. Most spaniards today are descendants of pre-indoeuropeans, Celts and Iberians with little pieces of Viking, Germanic tribes, Phoenicians, Greeks etc...

[@Alejojojo6]

@@Anzar2011 Iberians most likely didnt come from North Africa. Genetic footprint disproofs this. They were a local culture arosing from Neolithic, Hunter gatherer and Yamnaya people that arrived 3000 bc. Most spaniards descend from Iberians and Celts, yet less than 10% of the population has clear North African ancestry. It makes sense since north Africans and arabs never made more than 8% of the population and most of the population was made of Islamic converts. Islam is a religion not a race, so there was no need for mass migration. Most north African and arabic migration to Iberia before the conquest of 711 is anecdotical. Mostly coming at most from Pheonicians. The Berbers werent present 800 years. Only granada was that long under islamic LOCAL IBERIAN ISLAMIC rule, not berber per se. Most of the Penninsula was under christian hands by the year 1100. So at best 300 years.

[@Udeolecrab]

Well the bereber dna is all around Spain, the words in Spanish coming from Arabic are thousands, and one of the reasons the Roman and Greek culture are alive is cause authors were translated in Cordoba and Toledo after their knowledge was burnt and vanished all accross Christianity.

[@Anzar2011]

@@Alejojojo6 Genetic footprint prouves this, from Eupedia: "A first Mediterranean route brought farmers of the Cardium Pottery culture from the Balkans and Italy. Soon afterwards, La Almagra Pottery culture developed in Andalusia, apparently emerging from the present-day Maghreb. This event would explain the presence of both Northwest African and Red Sea DNA, such as Y-haplogroup E-M81, J1 and T, across most of southern and western Iberia."

[@oa4032]

I love how you included the genetic aspects here. Keep up the good work

[@CooperMonterrey]

Good job, Ali. I am currently researching 16th century Spain. I learned a thing or two from your video. I subscribed and am looking forward to your next one.

[@RJavierYepesDeV]

Great video. Thank you. Quito-Ecuador 🇪🇨

[@oliviapetrinidimonforte6640]

I am Paraguayan of Spanish ancestry, the product of endogamy among the descendants of the first conquistadors of the Rio de la Plata. These were 16th century Spaniards, from the time the Moors were still in Spain. However, I have no North African or Middle Eastern ancestry: not on paper and not on DNA results.

[@franrec6051]

Ese cruce genético se encuentra principalmente en Marruecos, si miras por KZbin resultados de ADN de españoles verás que lo que más abunda son sardo(Cerdeña), Italia e Irlanda, muy poco norteafricano excepto en Canarias que tiene un origen bereber. Si miras resultados de marroquíes verás que 8-9 de cada 10 tiene algún porcentaje ibérico. Esto tiene su explicación histórica con la expulsión de los musulmanes, tenía que ver con la religión no con la genética.

[@franrec6051]

Añado que para viajar a América necesitabas una licencia de viaje para la que pedían varios requisitos, ser cristiano viejo (no ser converso de musulmán o judío, ni hijo de converso) era uno de ellos.

[@egutiguti3337]

@@franrec6051yo soy español al igual que todos mis antepasados y en mis pruebas de ADN no aparece absolutamente nada de norte de África, aparece en un 80% celtíberos R1b y el resto del este de Europa 9% 7% del noroeste de Europa y un 4% de Italia del norte. Soy del centro peninsular. Es lo normal. Si consultas el ADN a nivel europeo, en España sale un alto porcentaje de ADN R1b, atlántico europeo y muy muy poco del norte de África y por supuesto a la mayoría de españoles no nos aparece nada. Curiosamente tienen un porcentaje más alto de ADN norteafricano los portugueses, gallegos, italianos y griegos.

[@tovarichy]

@@egutiguti3337 Este video es una burrada absurda llena de generalizaciones estúpidas. Yo no tengo ni un 1% de genética mora y sin embargo tengo un 60% de genética judía y el resto ibérico. Soy de Valencia.

[@egutiguti3337]

@@tovarichy sí, no se que pasa últimamente que nos quieren hacer moros a la fuerza, será por lo de la sustitución de la población, para que nos vayamos mentalizando, pero ahora es que para cierta gente todo viene de los moros, cuando la mayoría de la gastronomía viene de los romanos, la conservación de la carne de cerdo de nuestros jamones, el gazpacho, la paella, las torrijas y hasta muchos otros postres que por el hecho de contener miel ya tiene que ser de los moros, cuando los romanos y en el conjunto del mediterráneo conocían la miel desde el principio de los tiempos. Es preocupante esta corriente que nos están tratando de imponer con calzador, porque luego en todos los estudios europeos de ADN resulta que España, junto con Irlanda, Gales y Escocia son unos de las zonas donde más se concentra el ADN R1b. Y el ADN norteafricano, el E1b1 es menor incluso que en Italia o Grecia.

[@mainstreampropaganda7518]

I fell in love with a north African ancestral Portuguese girl when i was traveling in Évora Monte, Portugal in my early 20's so many years ago, and she was so wonderful and fantastic! I serenaded her from her bedroom window that night we kissed under the ancient roman pillars over looking the region from the peak of town, and enjoyed coffee in the medina on that night of magic together-whispering words of fascination and admiration for one another. But my ignorance and nativity won and I left on my continued travels only to one day realize what I lost and suited the failure in love to come, but I will never forget her! Bless her soul and may she be happy and content today with her life as it followed!!!

[@badbillybrookes]

Yeah, real nice girl. After all, we all had her.

[@TonyFontaine1988]

Be careful of thr Afrocentrists who may come to this channel and try to say Moors were Sub Saharan Africans

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Iam Spanish in Spain the word Moor is a Muslim person ( all races) and principally Magheby person in etnicity never black is a great error ( masive principally for Anglosaxons and specially blacks for "fake in this case pride of race) think the Moors are all blacks and passing millions to a Spain is a Big nonsense the DNA of muslim era un Spain is a máximum 3% and White skin etnicity ( Syrian zone) in some parts of Andalusia the rest of Spain nothing

[@DonteRicardo656]

There were moors that traveled from Western Sahara Africa. Basic Google research will tell you this. With that being said, sadly you have people that will intentionally bypass the facts because it would ruin their false sense of the superiority complex they have.

[@TonyFontaine1988]

@@DonteRicardo656 we wuz Egyptians, native Americans, moors, Jews and shyyyt

[@DonteRicardo656]

@@TonyFontaine1988 Are these the jokes you people make at the dinner table 😂

[@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533]

@@DonteRicardo656 That is true, but over the course of the Moorish colonisation of the Iberian Peninsula they were a small minority.

[@flaviopitanga65]

Great video. Awesome. My family is from Portugal and Spain

[@chucklira8885]

My family and I visited the Cathedral, formerly the Mosque of Cordoba and were amazed at the architecture and history. We loved the experience. Preserved within the structure you will see pillars and portions of the Visigothic Church that was there before the Mosque. To think Spain was part of the Roman Empire before the Visigothic and Moorish invasions is incredible. Parts of Southern Spain (Andalusia) were colonized by the Phoenicians and the Greeks. Bottom line is, every country has been invaded and left their mark. The Spanish people retook their Country from an invading force. While some Muslim Caliphates were tolerant of other faiths, in the 12th and 13th centuries a new more fundamentalist sect took over. The Christians faced with this fundamentalist had to make a choice and they chose to fight. I’m glad they did and I’m glad they preserved Christianity in the Iberian peninsula.

[@xispaster]

"Reconquista"

[@jmtrevijano9160]

The tolerance of Muslim Al-Andalus is a myth built by XIXth-century Romanticism.

[@brisk601]

North Africa was part of the Roman and Byzantine Empires as well, with some places being part of the ottomans , the Mediterranean sea really saw the most incredible instances of human civilization. the moors is a vague term that encompasses different dynasties

[@herrero4270]

There was no "spanish" country in the Peninsula. The Visigoths were also invaders. The Christians were as fundamentalsts as the Almohads. You're glad about Christianity only because Spain conquered your country. If your were conquered by the Islamic people, you would be glad if they have won this war, and you should be praying to Meca.

[@herrero4270]

@@brisk601 "Moor is not a political term, since it is referred to the people from certain geographical area with a distintive DNA. Of course, they are mixed, but the Spaniards also are mixed peoples.

[@ryan_supr1931]

Lol I cant wait for the 'We wuz kings n shitttttttttttttttt' people to arrive

[@thecaracarn6544]

They're brain dead and delusional

[@Aquil84]

Wait till you meet the "we taught you have to bathe regularly and cook your food" people...

[@nanafpv]

I guess the ancient white painters who correctly depicted North African black moors as seen in this video were “we wuz kangz”. But no - instead let’s believe random AI generated images and re-write history

[@legato4412]

Let's hope they arrive! They need to know that their ancestors attacked, plundered, killed, and enslaved millions of people from Europe and took them to Africa before the Transatlantic slave trade and their slave trade of Europeans lasted WAY longer than the African slave trade to the Americas. So who started enslaving whom?

[@pabloashan-deleon3088]

💣 *MOOR* Definition & Meaning 👇🏿 [Maurus, Latin.] *A И£⅁𝕶Ꭷ*; *A BLACK-A-MOOR*. ...Samuel Johnson's Dictionary *[1735]* Edition 👇🏾 _"I Shall Answer That Better,_ _Than You Can,_ _The Getting Up of ,_ _The _*_И£⅁𝕶Ꭷ’S_*_ Belly;_ _The _*_MOOR_*_ Is With Child By You._ ...Shakespeare's; Merchant of Venice

[@danielmasters5484]

A great post, Ali! Boy, you’re brave. In one post, you managed to burst the bubbles of most Arabs, the Amazigh nationalists, the Afrocentric crowd, and the Spanish themselves. DNA doesn’t lie and whilst the culture was Islamic and Arabic, the population was by and large Iberian.

[@Ideophagous]

How does it burst the bubble of "Amazigh nationalists"? We know very well that the population was mixed, with most of it being ethnic Iberian in origin. And as mentioned in the video, there was a sizable migration from North Africa to Iberia, before and after their conversion to Islam, which is proven by relatively high NA ancestry percentage. I've never seen an Amazigh nationalist claim that all of Islamic Iberia was of North African ancestry. It certainly bursts the bubble of Arab nationalists though. I find it ridiculous how some Syrians or Egyptians or Gulf people who wrote about the topic or did vlogs in Iberia, talk about "our Arab civilization in Al Andalus" (Egyptians themselves are mostly not Arabs by ancestry, but that's a whole other topic), and even translations of history works about Islamic Iberia into Arabic often replace the word "Moor" with "Arab". The only people outside of Iberia who can lay partial claim on it are descendants of the Moriscos, especially in Morocco where most of them settled after 1492.

[@mohamedred5746]

​@@Ideophagous Somehow the Spaniards Love Arabs and Hate Moroccans... They Just cant Accept that Moroccans Ruled iberia once...

[@lappeldesloups8022]

😂🤫We are Amazighs Maures Maroccan ♓️🦁⚔️🇲🇦🤫0%arabic.

[@mr.riffian9507]

I am a native of north Morocco, and I do not want Arabs and MEs to interfere in my country's business and its history. Get Out. 😂😂😂

[@mr.riffian9507]

​@@lappeldesloups8022♓🇲🇦♓💪✌🏼😂

[@tiluriso]

I'm from Brazil and I have about 10% North African Admixture component in my autosomal DNA. Be as it may that Iberian Catholics tried to 'purge' , as you yourself mention, Moorish and Middle Eastern influence, in architecture, cuisine, borrowed words, music as well as genetics, have stood the test of time and are well represented especially in the southern parts of the peninsula.

[@legato4412]

How did the Iberian Catholics try to "purge" your moorish bastard DNA?

[@timmy6588]

10% doesn't necessary mean Moorish, the genetic input from the Roman Empire, Hannibal Army, Greeks, Phoenicians were already there before the Moor's arrived.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

You are a Big inept and no known history the Muslim.invasion no is a American model on a millions and millions go to.a country is a military invasión not quantitative is a ridicule apart Spain expelled the Moorish (99% non White race and original non Hispanic peolpe) population in 17 century

[@samiman5606]

# The Andalusians = celtic - Iberian natives of Spain # The moors = Amazighs natives of morocco

[@ilfurlano1228]

​@@timmy6588correct

[@Blanca-q3z]

Thank you for this video. I am an American and I’m learning about my mother’s family’s history in Malaga, Spain and this makes a lot of sense to me. My son looks very much like you and whenever he meets people from North Africa, they always ask him where his family is from originally.

[@emiliayonekokumata7167]

I'm Brazilian with no connection with Moors since I have Japanese background, but what is interesting is that many words in Portuguese we speak in Brazil has Arabic roots, very similar to Spanish, which shows a great influence of that culture, linguistically speaking, in the Iberic peninsula. Also, I always wondered why the typical dish here is rice and beans, especially rice. I suppose it has the Moor influence as well.

[@MusicismoreImportant]

Spain will have several countries cuisine as it's a tourist destination

[@comment8767]

Portugese were in Japan at the same time they were in West Africa. I think there are some words from Portugese that have been incorporated into both Japanese and local African Languages. Ghanaians call hot pepper "shitor". I think Japanese have something similar. Shishito pepper (獅子唐辛子, Shishitōgarashi) is a sometimes hot East Asian pepper variety of the species Capsicum annuum.[1] Characteristics The pepper is small and finger-long, slender, and thin-walled. Although it turns from green to red upon ripening, it is usually harvested while green. The name refers to the fact that the tip of the chili pepper (唐辛子, tōgarashi) looks like the lion (獅子, shishi) head; in Japanese, it is often abbreviated as shishitō.[2]

[@Alejojojo6]

Most of the words of "Arab origin" came to the arab language from Latin. Like hasta, coming from Ad ista not Hatta (which is the Arabic equivalent).

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Sounds so not delicious.

[@pablojuega3312]

​@@comment8767amooooo Portugal 😮❤

[@Alex_Plante]

Great video! I visited Spain and Morocco in 1976, when I was a kid. I''ve always wanted to go back, but never had the opportunity. I remember well the Alhambra and the cathedral that was once a mosque.

[@kazRivers2]

Lol modern day morooco is like a mulatto mix race nation

[@doberman1ism]

My DNA indicate significant Iberian and Caucuses genetic makeup. My mother's parents are from The Abruzzi, Italy. My father's father was Scott Irish born on the boat crossing from Scotland and his mother, my grandmother Eliza, was a full blooded Eastern Band Cherokee Indian. I have very light olive colored skin, chestnut colored long hair with green eyes.

[@pablojuega3312]

Que belleza de Mix ❤❤❤

[@jordillach3222]

Is it normal in English to pronounce _Córdoba_ with stress on the ‑do‑ syllable: /cor-DO-ba/? In Spanish, the stress goes on the first syllable Cór‑ as the written accent indicates: /CÓR-do-ba/.

[@davidjames3787]

I'm English. I've always pronounced it COR-do-ba.

[@JaemanEdwards]

English speakers are notorious for butchering languages

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

He isn't English or Spanish. He's Irani. Foreigners often mispronounce other languages and place names. I have heard the Maltese old town of Mdina called Medina by foreigners, it isn't Medina which is a Spanish word from Arabic madinat. Mdina is Imm, short i, deena, long i. You would think foreigners would pronounce something correctly in that country.

[@pablojuega3312]

😂 le perdonamos ❤

[@twalrus1]

You have to admit that Muslim Architecture is great. They were centuries ahead of the barbarian Goths that lived in houses with dirt floors. One more thing about this period of time: The Jews in Spain that didn't convert had to leave all their property and valuables when they left Spain. Two things came of this: One) Columbus had a hard time finding ships because most were being used by Jews leaving Spain. Two) the "family jewels" Queen Isabella sold to pay for Columbus' trip were actually Jewish jewels that had been taken from Jews escaping from Spain. So, Columbus' trip to the New World was actually financed by the Jews.

[@adamnesico]

Is easy to be centuries ahead living literary centuries later.

[@joseanfigueroa8785]

mucho cuento pseudohistórico recitas...

[@twalrus1]

@@joseanfigueroa8785Sounds like you had a very limited history education In Spain. Get out of Spain (or out of the very "cleaned up" history classes in other Spanish influenced schools Like Mexico, Puerto Rico, etc) about the Spanish Inquisition. The REAL Spanish Inquisition was a horror show for Jews. And you would know that if you hadn't been fed a Spanish Processed Education that "cleaned up" the truth. The Spanish Inquisition was about as bad as Nazi Germany was for the Jews...just ask the Jews. OR, you can remain ignorant and don't ask anyone.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Hell no. It's fucking ugly and rather tasteless. The Goths aren't Iberians, they were Germanic barbarians whose homeland was Scania. Yes, it is better than dying, and jewels don't do much good to a corpse. By-the -way, family jewels means testicles. I don't thinl you mean a man's balls.

[@fainitesbarley2245]

The Muslim conquerors destroyed most of the cathedrals and churches that were there.

[@grandpoobahofthewest]

I love history, thank you so much for all the very interesting information. ❤️

[@thenorthwestcollective5877]

As a spanish, and a fan of our history this video is very well explained and quite fair on the dates and politics (to my knowledge) gracias por la precisión. This is quite a talking point in Spain in general, so info comes in handy.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

SALaM, SHLAMa, SHLOMo, SHALoM, NAMASTe, PEACe. 1. Many Verses Within The Vedas, Avesta, Cannon, Psalms, Torah & Gospel, Still Have Authentic Verses. 2. The Corrupted Verses From These Scriptures Sent, Are All The Double Dutch Verses, Which Contradict The Nature Of God. 3. All These Scriptures Testify God Being One. 4. All Later Verses With A Trinity Were Added, Some With Multiple Marvel Like Gods [Hinduism]. 5. The Noah Family: Vedas: There Is Only One God, There Is Only One Source, There Is Only One Supply. Avesta Zoroastrian: There Is Only One Wise God, Whom Is Uncreated. Buddhist Cannon: There Is Only One God, Whom Created Good & Evil. 6. The Abraham Family: Torah [Old Testament]: The LORD is our God, the LORD is one. Gospel [New Testament]: I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. Quran [Last Testament]: Say He Is God, The One, The Eternal & Absolute. He Begets Not, Nor Is He Begotten. There Is None Comparable To God.

[@matiasmerono]

As a Spanish and fan of precision in History, It would have been fair to hear that the mosque was previously a Visigothic church.

[@thenorthwestcollective5877]

@@matiasmerono a ver, este video va de la influencia de los moros en España. No de que había ANTES de los moros, tampoco es muy relevante no para hablar de lo que vino después no?

[@thenorthwestcollective5877]

​@@matiasmerono if its about moors and their influence, why mention the ones that came before? Osea, hay que hablar de los celtíberos para hablar de la influencia musulmana en al Andalus?

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

@@matiasmerono SALaM, SHLAMa, SHLOMo, SHALoM, NAMASTe, PEACe. Palestine itself was under the control of various empires, such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and eventually the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Modern Concept Of Nationhood Only Began, When The Colonists Divided Up Their Piece Of Territory. Blame The Zionists Whom Are Not Versed In Torah, Don't Forget The Demon Bibi Netanyahu, Hitler's Best Friend In The Hell Fire. Add Icing To The Cake, Ask Your Rabbi's: Where Is Satan In The Torah? Where Is Hell In The Torah? Where Is The Day Of Judgment, In The Torah? Whether You Admit It Or Not, Vedas, Avesta, Cannon, Psalms, Torah & Gospel, Have Been Tampered With. With An Eye For Detail, Processing Piety Academia, Intellect & Wisdom, Tampered Verses Became Very Easy To Find.

[@habibaallarakia6253]

I love the information you are providing and the tonality of it because there is no purity, not because we mixed. Rather we re-mixed for whether you are religious or not, there is one truth. All of us human beings come from one pool.

[@CarolynMcPherson-r3z]

You are absolutely right.

[@priestessofanat470]

It's a balance, we can mix and interchange but we have our identities as well. And we mixed in fact, but those mixes are from milennia ago. The people started to converge and make the own groups.. thru Genic flux they became a group connected, but stilly highly mixed.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Must be one filthy pool

[@priestessofanat470]

@@Ponto-zv9vf like your brain

[@ojsh8461]

Deja decir chorradas buenistas. Lo que marca es la cultura no la raza....un país multicultural es inviable y terminará destruido por enfrentamientos...un país multirracial pero con una misma cultura todos eso sí puede funcionar...

[@sofiahafida6139]

I enjoyed watching this magnificent video, as I am a descendant of Baniu Nsr of Granada Alhambra). Thank you Ali 🌷

[@felixalmeida481]

Soooo glad to have you back. Let’s do all we can to make it possible for you to continue producing these excellent and educationally valuable videos. Now, I have a request for you: Kindly present us with a thorough DNA review of that smaller, and therefore relatively neglected Iberian country - PORTUGAL. Why, you may ask. Well, Portugal was a huge colonizing power during the age of colonization. GOA, situated on the West coast of the Indian Subcontinent, was the capital of Portugal do Orient. Like their Roman ancestors, the Portuguese tended to intermarry with those whom they colonized. How profoundly valuable it would be to learn about the genetic makeup of the Portuguese, apart from what History tells us. And then perhaps, someday, having learned about the Portuguese two-staged colonization of Goa, the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa, and the intricacies of Goa’s Caste System, you will be inspired to venture out to study and do a similar video of Goan people, who are increasingly being outnumbered, in Goa, by Non-Goan Indians. Welcome back to your enormous Fan base!

[@bio.Luminescence]

I work with a nurse from Goa and both of her names are Portuguese and she has Portuguese nationality. Her parents are Indian and she doesn’t speak the language though. Very intelligent girl.

[@felixalmeida481]

@@bio.Luminescence I’m assuming, bio.Luminescence, that you and I are kindred fans of the enterprising author of this video? Ancestralbrew is his handle… Yes, all my names are Portuguese, an imposed conversion legacy of the Goan Inquisition (1560-1812). And I’m fluent in Goa’s languages; Konkani and Portuguese. Now, bio.Luminescence falls short of revealing much more about your background, than the fact that you’re creative at choosing a clever KZbin name 🤔…

[@bio.Luminescence]

@@felixalmeida481 Sou portuguesa e vivo no Reino Unido. Prazer em conhecer-te. Nenhum de nós teve poder algum nas decisões (erradas) dos nossos antepassados.

[@felixalmeida481]

@@bio.Luminescence Igualmente, prazer em conhecer-te. Pois, concordo. Quanto a mim, o que aconteceu no passado aos antepassados nossos ​​é apenas uma herança

[@wor53lg50]

​@@felixalmeida481Greetings my staunch Portuguese brethrens, lots of love and respect from, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿....No surrender.

[@windhoek_stallion8455]

Its worthwhile mentioning that during the inquisition, the contingents of "spanish" that migrated to the so-called new world were in fact way over represented in Jewish and Muslim converts (over 25%). Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico were countries populated in large part by people who fled persecution in Spain. It explains why so many latinos are often indistinguishable from middle easterners in appearance.

[@jojolafrite9265]

Vos sources pour les 25% vienne de Anglais, si cet le cas ça m'étonne pas 😂.

[@windhoek_stallion8455]

@@jojolafrite9265 25% is in fact just for jews.... Not sure the number for muslims it hasn't been that well documented. When Hernan Cortez arrived in Mexico, his team was overrepresented in moors and jewish converts.

[@pablojuega3312]

Lee "Vestido de Novia", sefardita mexicana ❤❤❤

[@TheRealGhebs]

Although what said is true, North African DNA in Iberia is there in the same amount as today (or even more) since the Roman times, like you can see in the monte da nora samples of Portugal.

[@AncestralBrew]

This is true

[@henryperez606]

1.2% North African, DNA here. However, my family is also from the Canary Islands. The original inhabitants I believe are north African.

[@adriaticseaeyes]

@@henryperez606 Guanches- indigenous Aryan tribes

[@henryperez606]

@@adriaticseaeyes Ok

[@Aj_Porsche]

​@@adriaticseaeyesAryans are from Asia their not Nordics

[@enriqueae7532]

Great video!! I have visited Cordova and loved it but didn't make it to Alhambra but hopefully in the next few years. I'm Mexican and when I checked my DNA, most of it is Iberian (87%), with Mexican Native American (7%) , Celt (5%) and small percentage of North African ( 1%)

[@dinobuzi2457]

So basically you are a richt white Mexican

[@CT-uv8os]

So how is Ohio Mexican. The First Nations still here would like to know.

[@dinobuzi2457]

@@CT-uv8os I stand with you

[@bouchmajid7109]

The moors are Arabs like moor Syria , the origin is from yamen all Arabs tribes living in moor river

[@amazonaencalifornia7631]

Córdoba es una ciudad romana. Lo que hicieron los omeyas de Damasco (no los moros) fue destrozar otra ciudad romana, Mérida, para construir la mezquita con sus mármoles y sillares sobre la catedral cordobesa. Y lo hicieron copiando la arquitectura del imperio romano de oriente y del persa, cristianos antes de su invasión -lo mismo que el norte de África-. Los árabes no tenían arquitectura salvo adobe y tiendas de pieles en el desierto. Y esa arquitectura y los iberos convertidos al islam hicieron la cultura andalusí, única en el mundo y exportada al mundo árabe musulmán que rodea el Mediterráneo, no al revés.

[@meryagazelle]

You seem to forget or misunderstand the key role of Algeria (historically called Central Maghreb) in the Andalusian history and culture in Iberia. Algeria was the starting point of the Andalusian epic and today it is still the main receptacle of Arab-Berber-Andalusian culture ( the legacy of the Moors) because it welcomed the largest flows of Andalusian Moorish refugees. It was in Tlemcen that Tariǫ Ibn Ziad, an Algerian Berber, began negotiations with Count Julien, governor of Ceuta to prepare for the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. A large number of the troops engaged to prepare for the conquest of Hispania came from the Central Maghreb (Algeria) The “Algerian” coast was the destination chosen by Moorish refugees fleeing the Reconquista after 1492, notably because the “Moroccan” coast could not accommodate them. The main ports on the Moroccan coast were attacked by Spain and Portugal. Tlemcen, like many other cities in Algeria (Constantine, Annaba, Bougie, Oran, Miliana, Médéa, Collo, Dellys, Algiers, Koléa, Blida…) shares a large part of the memory of medieval Arab-Berber-Andalusian civilization. The toponymy refers to the Andalusian past. Families of Andalusian descent are much more numerous than you seem to believe. Just for Algiers, historians estimate that in the 17th century, out of 100.000 inhabitants, 25.000 were Andalusian. In Algeria, the repertoire of Andalusian music is rich and varied. It is the only country in the Maghreb which has three schools (three styles) of Andalusian music. Wearable, culinary, musical art, to name but a few, are a heritage of Arab-Berber-Andalusian civilization... Finally, it is really no coincidence that the last king of Granada took refuge in Tlemcen with his family and found his final home there. (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqfKd5iYdqalmqs)

[@idristorique656]

Thanks for sharing!

[@carmencolon8012]

😂

[@moorishopponent]

He doesn't forget anything at all. Algeria is a French creation without history and since the 2000s many frustrated Algerians have started to steal the history of the Tunisian Numidians, Moroccan dynasties like the Almohads or Moroccan historical figures like Tarik Ibn Ziyad. But hey, continue to expand your complexes and rewrite history in Wikipedia, we the true and unique Moors ⵣ🇲🇦۞ we have a good laugh. “Mecca is Algerian”, “pizza is Algerian” 🤣🤣🤣 you really said that because you have no shame and your comment proves it.

[@abdulbasit-]

congratulations for this video man, absolutely brilliant

[@davidramos5559]

There's a great book about the war of the Alpujarras, (granada) which besides the battles also shows the common person's experience of the turmoil at the time. It's called "El Ultimo Morisco" by Diego Ramos. It's available in spanish right now (I listened to it on audio) but I heard the author is almost done with the english translation!

[@lucasstevens5915]

Si fuera cierto que hay más gallegos que tienen más ADN bereber (la diferencia sería pírrica, si es que la hay que no tengo claro que sea cierto), sería por su cercania geográfica con Portugal (no se expulsó tanto por allá) o quizás por los flujos migratorios de los conversos, pero culturalmente Galicia no tiene absolutamente nada que ver con los musulmanes y predomina la simbología celta y cristiana. Por otro lado tener uno u otro ancestro suelto o tener algo de ADN de fuera no habrá afectado lo más mínimo al fenotipo. Incluso la mayor parte de canarios, que sí tienen gran aporte guanche, no son físicamente tan diferentes de los peninsulares. Finalmente, Andalucía al margen de ADNs tiene un rico y precioso legado arquitéctonico/cultural de Al-Andalus, que es un orgullo para todos. Saludos!

[@Prince_Dalinar]

Ni que los norteafricanos se asemejen a los chinos, cuando un marroquí y una española se casan o viceversa el resultado en la mayoría de los casos son hijos tirando a tez clara y fenotipo mediterráneo, a diferencia de otros matrimonios mixtos cómo con los sudamericanos dónde si se puede ver el mestizaje.

[@jhonwainne2298]

Si es cierto, y se debe a las deportaciones de musulmanes, tras las sublevaciones de las Alpujarras, en Granada, a finales del siglo XXVII. Granada se repobló con gallegos.

[@javidelgado9887]

@@jhonwainne2298 No solo en en Granada. En Andalucía entera desde Fernando III cada vez que se reconquistaba una ciudad se hacían Cartas de Repoblación en las que se daban derechos a los nuevos ciudadanos que remplazaban a la población local musulmana.

[@FeelMetalMan]

La verdad que he estado en Galicia muchas veces y conozco muchos gallegos, y me extraña el dato del ADN. Yo diría que en Madrid por ejemplo te encuentras muchas personas más que se nota la herencia del norte de África

[@wellesmorgado4797]

Una curiosidad: el DNA mitocondrial U6, típico del Magreb, es común en Galicia/norte de Portugal.

[@agostocobain2729]

Bro's look fits in to many of the countries he visits, now you look like your ancestors were conquistadors. Yo brother, congrats on your series, you deserve it, and more. I remember your first video on "are Iranians European" lots of love to you dadash, peace out bro.

[@wor53lg50]

They are indo-Iranian ,is slavic influence, indo-European(Aryan) language split from ukrane steppes(kieven Rus) , one line into celtic lands in North western europe and the other line into eastern Europe down to Iran.

[@texmexexpress]

@@wor53lg50Iranians are Iranic and Indo-Europeans, not Indo-Iranians. Indo-Iranian is the name of the language branch whose languages within the Indo-European language family Iranians speak. You're right about the classical split of the Indo-Europeans (West: Celtic, Italic, Germanic and East: Slavic, Iranic, Albanian, Armenian). It's called the Satem and Centum split.

[@lewis7315]

I came across one record saying the ancestors of the present Bedoin of the western North African coast were the multiglot Cartheginian Phoenicians. After Rome destroyed Carthage, some of those Carthaginian peoples/tribes melted away into the background of that general area. Note that North Africa was green fertile prairie at that time according to the Roman historians Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. Egypt, the Sinai, "Palestine", Lebanon, and the Fertile Crescent were lush green fertile for millennia up until 600 years ago when the area started turning into desert. Yes caused by serious abrupt climate change mid 14th century.

[@jdilksjr]

Climate change not caused by the demon CO2.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Actually the hunter gatherers of the Levant were the Natufians. They took to farming because the place was becoming arid, it couldn't support the animals they hunted, that happened thousands of years ago. North Africa became arid due to bad management mainly over farming for wheat. The Carthagenians were basically North African, whatever Levantine ancestry they had was small and mostly bred out. Same with the Philistines, originally ancient Greek, 200 years later, fully Canaanite.

[@lewis7315]

@@Ponto-zv9vf Thing is, the historical record is scarce. As for the present arid condition of North Africa, the sudden climate change from a centuries long warmer period than today into a mini ice age in the mid 14th century dried out the whole mid east from North Africa through Israel and Lebanon into Syria and Iraq. Ancient Egypt was lush green and fertile with vast forests in the North. Same is true of the entire "fertile crescent" into Syria and Iraq.

[@pablojuega3312]

​@@lewis7315correcto 🎉

[@richvandervecken3954]

I believe the Moors were descendants of the Carthagians who were descendants of the Phoenicians who apparently were themselves descendants of the Caananites who themselves were descended from Minoans and or Ammorites. I believe they intermarried with local populations along the way which would make their ancestry appear very diverse from essentially all over the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

[@Randoman517]

You have gone too far. The Moors are a name given to the inhabitants of the Moroccan Kingdom of Mauretania BC

[@Aj_Porsche]

@@Randoman517 Do you even know Islamic history! The term Moors was a derogatory term used by Europeans to describe Muslims! No Islamic calaphate ever called themselves Moors. It was the Ummayads that ruled Al Andalusian Spain their leadership was Meccan Islamic from the tribes of the Prophet. The Moors wrote spoke and read in Arabic! They brought civilisation and learning, all came from the East, Persian Indian Roman and Chinese civilizations.

[@specialone3209]

​@@Aj_Porschethe moors means maures , the inhabitants of the kingdom of Mauritania. Moors mourrakush Morocco Mauritania are all the same thing

[@Aj_Porsche]

@@specialone3209 No Islamic Caliphate ever called themselves Moors, it was a term used by Europeans at various times. The Portuguese even called Bangladeshi Ceylon Moors.

[@Nabil-js5xu]

​@@Aj_Porsche I am a Bangladeshi lol.I don't think there are Bangladeshis in Ceylon.

[@fawzeyahal-awadhi5859]

Amazingly done! Thank you, thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@med8895]

Moors = Morrocan and from Morocco entered the Muslims that why for all the Spanish it were The Moors, the first step of conquest from the Land of Moor which was in the past (before the coming of Islam) a kingdom called "Mauritania Tenjitana" with capital Tanger, which is today the Current Moorocco. The architecture of those in Andalous still exists only in Morocco and only Moroccans who can make it the same and better than those of the past ( you are in morocco take a look to it).

[@Threezi04]

Moor and Morocco don't share any etymology, moor comes from Mauri which while initially refferring to just the people of Mauretania, by the end of Roman times had come to mean all Berbers. So Moor = North African. Edit: I wrote Mauretania with an e to clarify I mean the ancient kingdom, now hopefully Moroccans can stop crying over a claim I never even made.

[@ff-qn7jm]

Nope mauri means ppl from Mauritania which was in the north of Morocco other north africans were called by different names like Numidians (from Algeria) and Africans (from Tunisia)​@@Threezi04

[@med8895]

@Threezi04 Nop, Mauritania was only North Morocco, and at a certain moment, "extended to current Algeria," but the mean Moors are the Moroccans.

[@Randoman517]

​@@Threezi04 The Kingdom of Mauritania BC is a Moroccan kingdom😂😂😂

[@Threezi04]

@@med8895 I never said it wasn't????

[@acenname]

When Isabel and Fernando wanted to conquer Granada, they called the people there "Moors" so they could expel them to Africa, but "Moors" was just another word for "Muslim". They were Muslim because their families had converted to Islam, due to Arabic influence, but they were totally of Iberian descent. Religion and race was deliberately confused for political purposes.

[@HamzaNuino]

Exactly ! Because both moors and iberians are Mediterranean, very similar, hard for someone in the 16th century to distinguish between the two, so the cleansing was based on culture and religion, not race

[@laclochard]

It's not that religion and race was deliberately confused, it's that 'moros' (moors) is how they called Muslim people. And, obviously ethnicity and religion have been intertwined for very long until this day. Isabel and Fernando are called in Spain 'Los Reyes Católicos' (the catholic king and queen) and their main goal was to clean Spain of Islam. They didn't care about the ethnicity, they just wanted a Christian Spain. 'Race' is not an actual thing btw, we are all the human race. But like I told you before, ethnicity and religion have been very intertwined to this day. The Jewish people are still Jewish ethnicity regardless of their 'race' or if they are religious or not and it's very difficult to separate the two. In Spain, today, people still refer as 'moros' to a group of people who seem to be from Muslim countries, regardless of if they are religious or not, just because people assume they have a certain culture that is linked by Islam. It's not that religion and 'race' are deliberately confused, it is that religion and 'race' have been heavily intertwined to this day.

[@acenname]

@@laclochard For some people (the elite) it was deliberate, for others (the masses), it was indoctrination.

[@acenname]

@@laclochard When we are confused about something, there has sometimes been an effort to confuse, by those in power. For them, it was deliberate, for everyone else, it was indoctrination.

[@jamalbenhamou]

I made a similar video a few years ago. It is important to note that North Africans are Amazigh and they speak Tamazight in Addition to Derija( a lingua Franka with loan words from Tamazigh, Arabic, French, and Spanish).

[@jamalbenhamou]

There is no Arab majority, there are no Arabs. Those are just Arabized AmaIgh. You really think Arabs came and became more than the native population? Lol. What happened they killed the Amazigh? Just because North Africans who don’t speak Tamazight anymore it doesn’t mean they are arabs. It just means they have become Arabized. You think Derija is Arabic? Of course you do because if you spoke Tamazight you would understand many things about Derija( I can’t argue with someone who doesn’t have a clue about anthropology, linguistics and DNA analysis) the video clearly speaks of northh African DNA, North African DNA is not Middle Eastern DNA. Arabs were a minority and they were defeated and driven out of Morocco, the few that remained melted in the Amazigh Majority. When you do a DNA then come talk..,there are so many people like you who speak out of their emotions. If you think you are Arab which is a lie you have been told then go to the Arabian peninsula.

[@livai1915]

Well a presumed arabic dialect that no arab understands😅

[@jamalbenhamou]

@@livai1915 People call it Arabic because it obviously has Arabic words, but the structure follows the Amazigh language structure,(of course Moroccans who don't speak Tamazight, will never understand why Arabs don't understand Moroccans when they speak) This is in addition to about 15% of Amazigh words, possibly around 15% of French words and about 10% of Spanish words) An Arab would understand all the Arabic words but would not understand the meaning because it doesn't follow an Arabic sentence structure.....it is pretty much like Maltese but yet Maltese is never described as Arabic...double standards for Pan-Arab nationalists)

[@BakaMoors]

​@jamalbenhamou yes you are right about the moors is the Moroccan old name

[@Mr.Mustgohard]

So the Greeks themselves called Moors people of color, but today we going to say they were Arabs? 100 years from now they going to change MLK to a European as well.

[@samiaramdani7569]

I am Morrocan ( Moor) . I did my DNA test , 24% Iberian,35% French and 35% Moroccan.

[@miguelz8721]

Beautiful !!!

[@Chawinaïli]

What do you call Moroccan DNA?

[@michaelcandido2824]

North Africans and moors are not sub Saharan and never have been. The North African input has been in Spain since ancient times up to 10% of Spanish dna can be North African depending what region.

[@kazRivers2]

Lol do u care to Debate ?

[@PatrickFitzgerald88]

@@kazRivers2 Silly Bantu

[@scarymonster5541]

​@@kazRivers2hello slaves

[@thevisitor1012]

Search up the Almoravids

[@nickdominic9103]

So who are the people depicted lmao? Who put so called sub Saharan to the forefront of this conversation the point where that’s all you cared to comment.

[@AhmadNasser-m8h]

This is an excellent video loaded with valuable information. Very helpful.

[@MR-ml6fo]

Can someone explain why the Spaniards paint themselves black to represent the moors in their Moors vs Christians festivals? If the moors were not black? It just seems weird that they would do that if not one single Moor was North African ...I mean black .. like why ? And why do they have Black North Africans on many and I mean many of their flags. Its just not making any sense... like what is up with all those flags and coats of arms etc with africans ..I mean Moors on them ?

[@bluegoose777]

There were certainly black Moorish soldiers (there are medieval tapestries which depict them clearly) so perhaps it is in reference to this? I think the topic gets confused because people either say "the Moors were black" or "the Moors were fair skinned" but the truth is a bit more nuanced. Whilst most of the leadership and population of the Moorish Empire would have looked similar to modern day Kabyle Berbers or Arabs, there were also certainly black troops in their armies.

[@jsmith469]

​@@bluegoose777I think they were probably mixed

[@xispaster]

Visigothic church According to traditional accounts, the present-day site of the Cathedral-Mosque of Córdoba was originally a Visigothic Christian church dedicated to Saint Vincent of Saragossa,[30] which was divided and shared by Christians and Muslims after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.[31][32][18][10] As the Muslim community grew and this existing space became too small for prayer, the basilica was expanded little by little through piecemeal additions to the building.[11]: 136  This sharing arrangement of the site lasted until 785, when the Christian half was purchased by Abd al-Rahman I, who then proceeded to demolish[9][11] the church structure and build the grand mosque of Córdoba on its site.[32][33] (Wiki)

[@globetrotter5751]

Spain was actually invaded by the Moors to please their new masters the umyyads. The umyyad governor of North Africa crossed over 10 years after the invasion to pick up and enjoy the spoil.

[@serserrano1]

Thank you for speaking more history than In this 8 min of simplicity. Iberia/Spain has deep influences from Many different peoples and cultures ie phonecian, Greek, Roman, Visigoth, Celtic and Sephardic. The Muslims arrived late to the show and absolutely did not occupy through peace. Ole la reconquista. Thank God Christianity reigns in Spain to this day and gone are the Muslim hoards.

[@acaydia2982]

I know that the Muslims covered the Visigoths portraits with curtains in the church. You can still see hands that weren’t covered.

[@mikeg2306]

I was taught in Art History that the short pillars in the Mosque of Cordoba were re-used Visigothic columns. This may be the reason for the huge arches. Beautiful site!

[@wor53lg50]

​​​@@serserrano1its a shame some types of people seem to have cognitive dis-association or cherry pick when they rabbit and squeal on about history repeating itself and we should learn from it so it never happens again?, 🤔 , i hope the penny has dropped..

[@FREEd5407]

We're the Moors 🇲🇦

[@lxportugal9343]

Yes you are

[@greekwarrior5373]

Nope, you're 🇹🇷

[@lolololllll]

Lol sit down, moroccans are not iberians

[@Ideophagous]

@@lolololllll The term "Moor" had a broad usage, and was applied to Moroccans as well. Also look up "Mauri" and its usage in Roman and pre-Roman times in North Africa.

[@mohamedred5746]

​@@lolololllll And the Moors are Not Iberians

[@bio.Luminescence]

The Alhambra’s hydraulic system and the Muqarnas are a part of the world’s heritage, and it is the most visited monument in Spain. Throughout the world, Islamic architecture possesses many beautifully designed landmarks. To pray in a peaceful spacious mosque feels natural. The Alhambra reminds me of one of Isaac Albéniz’s masterpieces, Asturias (Leyenda). He honoured the mixed culture of his country and even used to say ‘I am a Moor.’ I am happy to live in a time where world cultural diversity is becoming a part of each and every one of us. We just need familiarity with each other to love one another.

[@jmtrevijano9160]

Pues vete a vivir a Marruecos a disfrutar de la experiencia de la familiaridad y de la cultura andalusí musulmana. No nos metáis tu y tus iluminados una invasión de Marruecos en España que es lo que estáis haciendo.

[@bio.Luminescence]

@@jmtrevijano9160 También podrías esconderte debajo de la cama.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

SALaM, SHLAMa, SHLOMo, SHALoM, NAMASTe, PEACe. 1. Many Verses Within The Vedas, Avesta, Cannon, Psalms, Torah & Gospel, Still Have Authentic Verses. 2. The Corrupted Verses From These Scriptures Sent, Are All The Double Dutch Verses, Which Contradict The Nature Of God. 3. All These Scriptures Testify God Being One. 4. All Later Verses With A Trinity Were Added, Some With Multiple Marvel Like Gods [Hinduism]. 5. The Noah Family: Vedas: There Is Only One God, There Is Only One Source, There Is Only One Supply. Avesta Zoroastrian: There Is Only One Wise God, Whom Is Uncreated. Buddhist Cannon: There Is Only One God, Whom Created Good & Evil. 6. The Abraham Family: Torah [Old Testament]: The LORD is our God, the LORD is one. Gospel [New Testament]: I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. Quran [Last Testament]: Say He Is God, The One, The Eternal & Absolute. He Begets Not, Nor Is He Begotten. There Is None Comparable To God.

[@wor53lg50]

They didn't honour it at all, they forced the culture on the people like they still do, and those back then as like in what we see say in Africa those who did not want to bend to their will, religion and culture was simply killed.

[@Aj_Porsche]

@@wor53lg50 you talking about colonialism? Yes destroy everything.

[@danielpirela1225]

there is a small mistake on the translation of "Limpieza de Sangre" on 3:19 - in english, it would be ""cleanliness of blood"" - but yeah, it has the meaning of what it sounds

[@AmyEugene]

English teacher here. Cleanliness of blood is a direct translation, purity of blood translates the meaning in this context. The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear cleanliness of blood is blood donations for medical use and blood transfusions. Donated blood has to be screened for pathogens and contaminated blood is discarded. You could say that blood that passes the screening is clean. Purity can indicate that the thing described is all of one kind without additives. Pure vanilla extract contains no synthetic vanilla and 100% pure Italian olive oil contains no olive oil sourced from another country like Spain or Greece, it is purely Italian. Many Americans are aware of past problems our country has had with the idea of racial purity and prejudice against mixed-race relationships. The terminology often used in these arguments is purity vs. dilution or 100% one race or nationality vs. a 40%/40%/20% split where there isn't a majority.

[@j.c.serranosanchez3190]

@@AmyEugene Pureza de sangre is the proper and original spanish term. Very close to english

[@pablojuega3312]

​@@AmyEugenegracias bravoooo❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@Mariamblu]

I’m Moroccan and my sister did a heritage DNA test. 20 procent was Iberian , 70 procent Moroccan/ Algerian , the rest was italian, and Latin. I will do my test soon. We’re from tetouan

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

So you're related to Luke Skywalker. Your results are like those of North Moroccans.

[@ghassencsetwow]

@@Ponto-zv9vf Nah he's not , Tatooine is based on the city of Tataouine south of tunisia not the tetouan of morocco .

[@ill5526-w4n]

​​@@ghassencsetwow Nah, she's from Tetouan Morocco; most people there are 'Jbala' and tend to have pale skin.

[@ghassencsetwow]

@@ill5526-w4n you don't get it

[@ththtut]

Great video.

[@orlandovelastegui1391]

My Great, Great, Great grand parents came from San Sebastián North Spain where we weren’t mixed with moors! Although when my great grandparents came to Ecuador that was called La Grand Colombia their kids mixed with the Native American people that live in Ecuador making us Mestizó Half white half Native American.

[@matthewmann8969]

Most Southern Europeans are not White but Olive skinned the White ones have formula mixing mainly from Celts, Alpines, Germanics, Nordics, Slavs, East Baltics, Samis, Finno Urgelics, And Western Caucasus Peoples.

[@orlandovelastegui1391]

@@matthewmann8969 we are olive 🫒 colored also because we are mixed with Native Americans.

[@matthewmann8969]

​@@orlandovelastegui1391Mestizos have more of a brown color while pure or near pure blooded Amerindians have more of a Reddish complexion yeah.

[@wor53lg50]

Its probably through Native European Neanderthal and Native European sub groups like Sami in sweden and suom in Finland and these two sub groups mating together is where the white skin comes from, have you noticed that sami and suom people have Redish tints to their skin, like native Indians, also cheddar man, could be described as having red skin... You native indians are more than likely from these native European tribes that came across the barents sea ice bridge in one of the ice ages...especially the Canadian natives ones even more so?? , so its not much of a stretch of the imagination that these people carried on south into middle America making indian tribes there, then still going even further to make what we know now as incas, and the Mayans.... Also Africans and Asians dont have this Neanderthal Gene, whereas Native Indians, Europeans do...

[@orlandovelastegui1391]

@@wor53lg50 my whole family is different colors me and my youngest sister are brown like Native Americans and we both resemble Native Americans my father and my oldest sister resemble from Andalucía and my mom looks like a mix of Black and white or mulato.

[@JungleTherapy2023]

Please do Cypriot DNA History! You would have to factor in at least the 2 main populations, but it would be so worth it I think!

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Cypriots are much the same, Greek or Turkish speaking, the same. They have a lot of dna from the Levant, which is why on a PCA they form a cluster near both Southern Turkey and the Northern Levant, Syria. Genetically they are part of the East Mediterranean world quite separated from mainland Greek and Greek islanders.

[@ilfurlano1228]

I'm gonna have to say: Based Reconquista. All the respect for north africa.

[@samiman5606]

According to the words of Muslim historians, there are migrations of the Amazigh tribes of Burghawata, which revolted against the Umayyads and defeated them in many battles and defeated the Umayyads and expelled them from Morocco and Algeria in 740 AD and besieged them in Tunisia, but the Berber of Bourghawata did not succeed in that, so Tunisia remained in the control of the Umayyads for only 9 years until it fell into the hands of the Aghlabids, who declared their affiliation with the Abbasids The Amazigh Kingdom of Burghawata is the union of twenty-two Amazigh tribes within a federal confederation between these tribes and the Kingdom of Burghawata Amazigh is the first Sunni Amazigh emirate established in North Africa and the first of their Amazigh king Tarif, who named the Spanish city of Turaif after him and the first to challenge the Umayyads and called himself the Caliph of the Muslims, who was with Tariq bin Ziyad the Amazigh in their first conquest of Iberia and the borders of the Kingdom of Burghawata are between Tamesna (Rabat is currently the capital of the State of Morocco to Azemmour in the south in length in Atlantic Coast) Some of the Buragharta tribes migrated to Galissa in the north and to Ashtorias in the south and stayed in these areas, and it is known for the Amazigh to take them as areas of habitation, they rarely go down to the plains When the conditions of Andalusia worsened and were divided into the cities of the sectarian countries, many tribes of the Amazigh kingdom of Burghawata and many other Amazigh tribes emigrated, such as Masmouda, Senhaja, Zanata, Hashtouka, Mediouna and Hawara. All these tribes all returned to Morocco for fear of the strife that decimated Andalusia and turned into many civil wars These Beragharta Amazigh tribes that settled in the Ashtorias Mountains and the Galissa Mountains returned most of them to Morocco, this is what Muslim historians said at that time

[@rosedudesert5299]

MOORISH IS MORROCAN 100%

[@Ryoo-sa125]

Tariq bin Ziad is an Arab, not an Amazigh

[@billysanchez-eh6nn]

​@@Ryoo-sa125he is an amazigh lol, every historian says he was amazigh

[@teknul89]

@@Ryoo-sa125​​⁠Tarik Ibn Ziyad was born in North Africa The vast majority of modern sources state that Ṭāriq was a Berber mawla of Musa ibn Nusayr, the Umayyad governor of Ifriqiya. According to Ibn Khaldun, Tariq Ibn Ziyad was from a Berber tribe in what is now Algeria. Heinrich Barth mentions that Tariq Ibn Ziyad was a Berber from the tribe of the Ulhassa, a tribe native to the Tafna that currently inhabits the Béni Saf region in Algeria. David Nicolle, it is traditionally believed that he was born in Wadi Tafna (a region in present day Tlemcen).

[@Ryoo-sa125]

@@teknul89

[@MichaelHill-o4t]

BEEN THERE AND LIVED IN SEVILLA AND BEEN DOWN TO GRANADA THE ALHAMBRA. TRULY AMAZING TIME, AND MISSING THAT TIME IN MY LIFE, VERY MUCH XXXXXXX TO SPAIN 🇪🇸

[@rasmccurdie4373]

It’s funny how the video diminished the fact that the label “North African” includes those of many ethnicities, including sub-Saharan African. e.g. “North African populations show a complex and heterogeneous genetic structure that has been described as an amalgam of at least four different ancestral components from the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and also indigenous North Africans who are distinct from these three.”

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Not really. The black Africans are the descendants of slaves, the Muslims were fond of slavery. There isn't a lot of Arab ancestry, your Middle Eastern, in North Africa, but it depends on which tribes. Those other ancestries are minor, and not indigenous, and date post Islam.

[@Taurean_SAMA]

​@Ponto-zv9vf Yes, really. People have and always will mix. Also "the black africans" better specify cuz rival tribes sold each other. And others were never conquered.

[@irishrebel374]

😂

[@roniimontfort536]

Congrats, awesome video !! Being a native of Gran Canaria I totally agree.

[@AncestralBrew]

Thanks for watching!

[@Paciolimusic]

De verdad tienes sangre de Guanches?

[@Gunadrar]

@@Paciolimusictodos los canarios.

[@kennyclarke2207]

Thank you for sharing!

[@adriaticseaeyes]

This video represents all of half my DNA - N. African Canary Islands, Middle East Levant, Egypt Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Galicia Asturias Cadiz Madrid Andalusia Castile and Leon !

[@aragonark5863]

menos mal que no tienes de aragón

[@adriaticseaeyes]

@@aragonark5863 why

[@lissyperez4299]

Cuban American here. Interesting to hear re higher African roots in Canary Islanders. My fathers family have roots there and my sister showed a significantly high percentage of African dna. You also did not mention the deep Arabic roots of our surnames as well.

[@liamb5392]

Please do Portugal next!

[@hotdogwater-j9m]

Do you have any videos on the Black Irish? I heard N Africa had a substantial influence there. My sister had a DNA test done & found N African ancestry. My uncle was black haired & olive skinned, & my sister & I had very dark hair & olive skin, though we have a very Irish last name. Take care, your channel is interesting.

[@wor53lg50]

Thats weird as i cant remember seeing many black people or Half casts in Ireland before the 1960's?, so where do you think they all went to?, as it couldn't have been across the Piss into Britain as their demographics was basically the same and very similar to what i just mentioned with Ireland.... Are you sure you're not getting Iberia mixed up with Liberia like the fake plastics do with the ivory coast flag?...

[@hotdogwater-j9m]

Well dumb dumb. The black Irish are not mixed with Sub Saharan black people, but with the Moors & Amazigh of N Africa.@@wor53lg50

[@ff-qn7jm]

N Africans are not black

[@joseanfigueroa8785]

Black Irish denotes an Irish person with black hair, not an Irish person with African ancestry.

[@malonamission7092]

@@joseanfigueroa8785the native Irish were black

[@wilb6657]

This is a great video. One thing we have to understand, though, is that the “Moors” were a heterogeneous group who interact with Europe for several hundred years. They also interacted with parts of Europe besides Spain. SOME of these Moors were indeed Sub-Saharan African.

[@matthewmann8969]

Most of The Moors were Mediterannean Peoples different from other Europeans, Africans, And Asians yeah.

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

They were predominantly Mediterranean (Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe), but could contain some Sub-Saharan African

[@matthewmann8969]

​@@user-yt3xd2jl6dAnd some Non Med European And Western Caucasus yeah.

[@wilb6657]

@@matthewmann8969 It depends on what era you are talking about. For example, the Almoravid dynasty of Moors was likely founded in Modern-Day Senegal. Many of the European depictions of "Moors" from the Almoravid era depict black-skinned folks.

[@matthewmann8969]

​@@wilb6657I will not argue or get into such a hard-core debate with that but it still does not switcheroo the fact that most dynasties with few nitpickers were Olive Skinned Peoples not White, Black, Brown, or any other color for much of the armies that came to dominate much of Iberia and parts of Southern France as well as certain parts of Italy like Sicily yeah.

[@MrAps-jh2qb]

Amazing Video ❤

[@Mghernah]

I am From Algeria I did my DNA and find out 64% from Iberia Spain

[@ladycrowley1413]

Which city in Algeria ?

[@MusicismoreImportant]

Similar to Yves saint Laurent?

[@Mghernah]

@@ladycrowley1413 telemcen

[@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951]

Iben Sina and Ben Maimon met in Cordoba for establishing the very first medical centers 🎉

[@CLAROSCURO-uu7vs]

I enyoyed watching this video and this Dude; he's good at making all this feels interesting

[@AncestralBrew]

Thanks bro

[@CLAROSCURO-uu7vs]

I'm keeping an eye (or two, lol) on these episodes until the time come I can go interview you/your team for one vlogging project of mine @@AncestralBrew

[@IlyassBendaoud-r5v]

They are the people of north Africa, but many of them were from Morocco 🇲🇦

[@teknul89]

They were also from Algeria 🇩🇿 and maybe Tunisia 🇹🇳, West Sahara, Mauritania 🇲🇷, and Libya 🇱🇾

[@Pleittor]

Morocco didn't exist at the time of the invasion of the Arabs and Berbers to the Iberian peninsula, it was Mauritania. The biggest population of the invaders were Berbers, whom had been forced to become muslims or pay taxes to the Arab invaders.

[@IM-wq6wu]

Mauritania old name of Morocco, berbères from Morocco went changhit land to preach Islam

[@JorgeTapiadelCampo]

Born in CHILE... 1975 i dont speak french at all... à Montpellier j'ai connu la femme de ma vie et elle me dit : my name is Sophie Mauret >Moros... alors "avec le temps"... j'ai réveillée toutes mes racines... voici le résultat : Jorge Alfredo Himaya Tapia del Campo Vischi = Alfredo Jorge Himaya Muret de la Campagne Soudan MERCI INFINIMENT Ancestralbrew pour cette video MAGNIFIQUE 🖤🤍🖤🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤

According to my grandpa, I have mourish DNA but from Portugal rather then Spain. It is also etched in the Portuguese and even Brazilian populus. As for less expulsions from the Portuguese inquisition, that's not true, they'd send new christians, mainly jewish forced converts, to the colonies so a large part of the Brazilian population is jewish and doesn't even suspect it.

[@jorge6207]

Not so. The Portuguese were very averse to expel jews and moors (mainly due to their economic importance), and when they did they were pressed by Castille to do it. There was ethnic antagonism, but not as much as in Castille, especially with the elites. Also, the jews that went to Brazil, I don't think were enough to make a dent in Brazillian demography. Many went to northern Europe and New York, as well as north Africa.

@@jorge6207 Yes so, there are several hidden documents at the Torre do Tombo on Lisbon as well as at the vatican that prove that Brazil's history began in 1342 with an explorer of JEWISH origin called Sancho Brandão, and after Cabral came here only further oficilize the Portuguese posession of Brazil is when king D.Manuel started sending new christians here as banishment and these exiles were the ones to successfully build the actual first settlements.

And also, YES, they madr alot more then a dent, just look at the majority of Brazilian surnames and you'll see that almost all of the ones in Portuguese are surnames of so called "new christians". And not only that, there are several articles stating hidden habbits and costums that Brazilians have which are actually JEWISH habbits and customs, from covering all mirrors when someone dies, to even telling children that if they point at stars warts will grow on their fingers.

[@jecinasema5190]

To the best of my understanding there were lots of conversions of convenience. Christianity was the flavor of the times and some muslins converted to Judaism to avoid explusion. And then they went after the Jews also. History is very interesting especially if you do your own research and dont take for Gospel what you are told.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

There ancestors knew it, that they were Converts to Christianity and Jews. Conversion to Christianity did not help the Muslims either.

[@mohamedred5746]

Moorish Or Mouri is old Term Refered To Amazighs/Berber People of Ancient Kingdom of Mouretania (Modern day Morocco) End Of History.

[@antonioramos7139]

I am Portuguese, and my DNA test showed 13% Mozabite (Mzab), which I found out is an Amazigh people found in central Algeria (Ghardaia).

[@mohamedred5746]

@@antonioramos7139 There is no such thing as Mzab ADN, maybe North african Amazigh ADN...

[@antonioramos7139]

@@mohamedred5746 My DNA results specifically named the word Mzab. I don’t know any other technicalities that could explain it better.

[@rasaanshakur9491]

Original Berbers were black.

[@mohamedred5746]

@@rasaanshakur9491 Said That To genetic studies and universities

[@silviarosellini1]

I'm from Livorno. Many Sephardic and Coversos came in our town from Spain and many Muslims or Moriscos too. People with "Spanish/North African looking" as the family of my father in law, whose surname is Spagnoli, live in the city.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Because the phonecians & romans are literally the same Levant, Mediterranean dna long before any of those names or ppls self identified as Muslim Arab or Christians its hard to use these titles as such. It just confuses the situation id imagine. I've often read that Sardinia has some of the entire world's most recently shared dna that's found far and wide . Idk where these studys ended its been a long time since it was mentioned

[@matthewmann8969]

Precisely the White ones you see are either Germanic, Nordic, Alpine, Celtic, Slavic, East Baltic, Or Western Caucausus or they have a certain among of admixing from those groups that is why you see White people in parts of Southern Europe, The Middle East, North Africa, And even parts of North Western Southern Asia yeah.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

We all come out from under that 2.8 million year old gorigian granite lava layer one way of the other. Lol Eurasian revolutionary anthropology has even shaken the boomer evolutionary models in recent decades

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

What you see today is exactly what it looked like 9000 bc. We know this based on modern Lebanonese maintaining 97% of all phonecian and cannanite dna. Must've been able sail from Tyre, Carthage , Spain constantly dodging Greeks ,Egyptians ,romans ,Assyrians and the much later Arabic conquest and admix

[@lissyperez4299]

@@matthewmann8969 true, my dad was born in Cuba and of course has Spanish ancestry a lot from the canary islands, but he also had some percentage of DNA from the Caucasus! When u look at my paternal grandfather, he looks eastern European.

[@lapislazulii141]

@@matthewmann8969Whites migrated out of the Levant into Europe. It was always White

[@josephstalin8543]

The dynasties that ruled Al-Andalus were: Umayyad Caliphate, arab. Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, arab. Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, arab. Almoravid Caliphate, berber. Almohad Caliphate, berber. Nasirid dynasty of Grenada, arab.

[@Skip-m8q]

no not true in fact the berbers invaded spain with their king tarik ibn zayed 28 years later in the year 739, a revolution occurred in Morocco. This revolution also affects Islamic Spain after this revolution the Omeyyades dynasty fell into demascus Afterwards, Omeyyade Prince Abdel Rahman fled to Morocco where his maternal grandparents live These Berbers helped him come to power in Spain Thanks to Berbers, Spain remained under the control of Islam because historically there has never been protection for Andalus from the East (Middle East). After the fall of Omeyyades, Andalus came under the authority of Berber Morocco

[@Randoman517]

The Caliphate of Cordoba was under the rule of Abd al-Rahman I, who was a Moroccan of Umayyad lineage

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Arab is a fishy term. Sudanese people are Arabs. Egyptians are Arabs, Lebanese are Arabs... it basically it's a catchall term. Even the language Arabic is meaningless. True Arabic is Quranic Arabic, all those languages of the Middle East, Arabia, and North Africa have a lot of differences and are not Quranic Arabic. Who were the Umayyad's exactly. Did they do a dna test?

[@onishomar489]

Bello video con una nuova moda. Sono eccitato per il nuovo documentario.

[@tovarichy]

Questa è propaganda marrocchina, non è vera.

[@onishomar489]

​@@tovarichy eh eh eh. forse, ma buono ciò nonostante.

[@charlesghanem9876]

The former Islamic territory was Christian territory before

[@wor53lg50]

Indeed it was before Islamic colonialism, oppression and forced conversion, marriage and child births....

[@alimohammad1934]

You have to realize that the cultural exchange was beyond that the birth of semitic religions. Long when people are called pagans the Carthagenians which are punic people who came from tunisia settled there then the roman after that.

[@Mrch33ky]

And Pagan before that.

[@wor53lg50]

@@Mrch33ky pagan celts to be Precise as most of western europe was....

[@mage1over137]

​@@Mrch33kyand another kind of pagan before that.

[@mohzaher2000]

I believe that nothing worse than distorting the history. The Moriscan history is an essential part of the Iberian history whose story needs to be rectified unbiasedly for the nations to benefit from the lessons in it. Every story has lessons.

[@strongjaymusicgroup]

I enjoyed this documentary. Please more

[@asturiasceltic3183]

My family is from Asturias. No MENA DNA in our tests.

[@harispratama4691]

Probably cucked by other people. Like the Goths

[@ayo9715]

Would have been interesting to do a Stone Age DNA comparison, using the Iberomarusian DNA

[@ItsiePitsie]

Mis Portuguese and Spaniards have a average of 5% iberomaurisian

[@ayo9715]

@@ItsiePitsie that makes sense considering the proximity

[@ItsiePitsie]

@@ayo9715 yeah we’re whiter skinned bc of the Anatolians

[@ayo9715]

@@ItsiePitsie true. And the Iranian neolithic DNA

[@ayo9715]

@@HITBnn I bet Iberomaurusian DNA was common throughout the Green Sahara and Humid Period of the Arabian Desert too. They haven't sequenced much ancient DNA from these places yet though

[@mariaceciliaaramburomisas4310]

Excelente documental! Muchos éxitos

[@johnbrereton5229]

My wife is half Moroccan and she has 11% Spanish DNA. Her father comes from the Atlas mountains area of Morocco. Thanks for an interesting video.

[@tovarichy]

¿Paella from moors? "Paella" is a Latin based word, and there are not 4000 arab words in modern Spanish but 2000. Modern Spanish DNA have lot of Sefardic trail and 0 moro (Moor). Actually, flamenco music has Sefardic background as Paco de Lucía said. The moros (Moors) invaded Iberian Peninsula in 711 a. d., when it was a well established Christian country. By the way, the population of Basc region does not have 100% pure DNA, it does not exist, you silly.

[@mohamedred5746]

Yeah "Paella" since Rice Was introduced By Moors, so Its logical... Btw Its "Al bakiya"

[@pedrofr1434]

por mucho que la gente como tú negéis la influencia islámica en España esta no va a desaparecer, todos los estudios genéticos señalan entre un 5% y un 10% de ADN relacionado con los árabes y sobre todo con los norteafricanos. Por cierto, Paco de Lucía pudo decir misa, que el orígen islámico del flamenco está bastante aceptado, solo hace falta escuchar la llamada a la oración de las mezquitas para ver las similitudes.

[@Julia-m5k4y]

​@@pedrofr1434 No hay nada malo o vergonzoso en esa influencia 😊

[@pedrofr1434]

@@Julia-m5k4y lo sé, por eso contesté con ese mensaje poniendo en valor la herencia islámica

[@Julia-m5k4y]

​@@pedrofr1434 entonces estamos de acuerdo en que todo lo que somos ahora es el resultado de nuestro rico pasado, o sea que si nos gustamos ahora es gracias a todo lo que antecedió, que es maravilloso 👍 saludos 🤭

[@marylopez6173]

Thank you! Very informative and scientific!

[@Mind-d6y]

Great video. I wish a new Video about descendend from Romania, becouse the otoman imperium was there very long.

[@jonam7589]

You look Spanish yourself! I am an Iranian-American with 96.4% Iranian and 3.6% Iberian. I always wondered how I got the Iberian! Was it from the time of Alexander!? Then, I found out that around the 4th century there was a "Kindom of Alans" in Iberia. As you know the Alans were the Iranians from the north of Caucasus, today's Ossetia in Georgia. Then, my gene has gone there not the other way around. Do you agree?

[@kanyekubrick5391]

You should know that different DNA companies have differing amounts of data, so each will give you different results. In addition, the percentage on your chart will inevitably change over time as they receive more data from people, adjusting the accuracy. A DNA test also doesn’t tell you, per se, about your ancestors. It tells you where *modern* people with similar genetic makeup live. Logically, because they’re getting the data from modern people, not from folks 2,000 years ago

[@jonam7589]

That makes sense. When I visited Spain last year people were surprised that I didn't know spanish since I looked as I was one of them. Thank you very much for the information that you provided.@@kanyekubrick5391

[@AncestralBrew]

Hi Jonam I live in Spain and stick out like a sore thumb here. They used to call me Turco in Argentina….With that being said, I presume you used myheritage. It is unlikely for Persians to get Iberian. The Iberian kingdom in the caucuses is unrelated to the iberians of Western Europe. Your components of Iberian ancestry may just be an additional Anatolian component, although of course, there are nuances to this and who knows, without having to look at your dna, you could have a distant Iberian ancestors; although it is unlikely.

[@jonam7589]

Thank you very much for your response and clarification. Well, definitely my kids have Iberians in them since their American mom is of Spanish heritage.@@AncestralBrew

[@tovarichy]

@@AncestralBrew You are a Morrocan agent and your spech is bullshit. Get out from Spain you are not welcome.

[@juanrincon777]

sooo cool and so glad i found

[@gamalnassertv]

The descendants and founders of the Moorish movements are found in the regions of Morocco and Mauritanian.

[@gamalnassertv]

They were a conglomeration of Iberian, Berber, Arab and Sub-Saharan Islamic groups. I'm surprised you did not discuss the data from Olalde, Iñigo et al. (2019), 'The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years.'

[@FREEd5407]

Morocco & Mauritania were one country

[@hendrifai4223]

Sun saharan groups would have been very few

[@jabu1591]

Not so much modern Mauritania. Mostly Morocco and Algeria since they were one nation at that time. Mauritania would become apart of it later

[@FREEd5407]

@ayhamkimo4488 No, Arabs have nothing to do with this

[@Lets_Talk_About_it_Luv]

My Dad is from Mauritania, we’ve got Moorish Ancestry🇲🇷

[@ff-qn7jm]

Kingdom of mauretania was in the north of Morocco not what we call today mauritania (chenguit) it's so different

[@herrero4270]

@@ff-qn7jm "Hispania" were Roman provinces, not what we call today Spain. It's so different. But you don´t know if his dad is from the Islamic Republic of Mauretania, so don't rush to jump to conclusions.

[@wor53lg50]

​​​@@herrero4270indeed and it was these iberian coastal celtic mercenary tribes that the Romans used as a legion in Brittania..aswell as Gauls from what is now the Breton celt areas of France... Its obviously clear today why the Romans used them, i call it playing safe to limit a revolt...

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

No, you have Berber ancestry. Many people in that part of Africa have Berber ancestry mixed with sub Saharan. The Fulani are a mixed people.

[@beckinfidelis3916]

Cordoba mosque-cathedral was originally a church/cathedral. It wasn't "built" by the Muslims, it was partially destroyed and rebuilt as a mosque. This was proven when a hidden, blocked off basement was discovered and found to have Christian iconography, statues and reliefs on the support posts in a primitive pre-gothic style I think, very old, predates the mosque. They left the basement intact because it supports the whole structure and feared a collapse, but blocked it off so no one could see what was in it for probably 1,000 years! 😲😲

[@debathor9346]

Can you make a video about the French DNA🙌🏼🇫🇷 I think it's one of the most diverse counties in Europe. I'm curious for example if the South of France also has some Moorish DNA

[@uptown_rider8078]

South France does not have moor DNA, neither do the Spanish

[@debathor9346]

@@uptown_rider8078 LOL of course Spain has Northern African DNA. It reaches even 10-15% in some regions

[@uptown_rider8078]

@@debathor9346 That’s not true all all, Spaniards do not have North African DNA.

[@jojolafrite9265]

​@uptown_rider8078 Si hombre Hay 11 % en la parte de Galicia y 4% en el resto de Espana puedes verlo en Google, pero desde esa epoca descuida que estos gènes ya estan tan diluido que es insinifiante Viva 🇪🇦✝️ Saludos✌️

[@uptown_rider8078]

@@jojolafrite9265 That is a complete lie, Galicia does not have any moorish DNA, nor does any other part of Spain. Galicians are descended from the Celts

[@todobienrico]

1) Umayyads were in today Syria. The whitest "arab" nation, along with lebanon, you can find today. 2) It was a religion thing, this means conversion of the natives. 3) There was no mixing with the Umayyads at all. And less with the amazighs, who were conquered as well, they were pawns in this, not the ruler class. 4) all the nort of Spain was reconquered in less than 100 years, for example, the entire Catalonia. Charlemagne say hello. In 1492 the city of Granada fall, and visigoths retake the 100%. 5) Cathedratics of history had say many times there were NO blacks in all of this. They were in mud huts way to south, and the very few in contact with the arabs were brought to Arabia as eunuchs and concubinesm starting the slave trade.

[@beternal9611]

Closest people to the Umayyad caliphate are mehris of Yemen and their darkskin. The Levant region faced many different conquests that’s why Levantine people have natufian, Persian and Anatolian dna

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Exactly the Uneymad Empíre born in Syria and by the way the Muslim invasión of Spain is military no military - quantitative

[@jmtrevijano9160]

The Umayyads in Spain mixed immediately with Hispanos. By the time of Abderraman III the great and first Caliph of Cordoba, seven generations after the first Umayyad Emir of Cordoba, only a few Arab genetic traces were left on him as he was as much an Iberian as his own aunt, the Christian Queen Toda of the Kingdom of Navarre. There were some blacks but they were slaves. They are represented enchained in the decisive battle of Navas de Tolosa 1212.

[@FireGodSlayer]

Amazigh wwre not conquered but they did conquer the middle east with the fatimids who were berbers. The berber revolt destroyed arabs. Moors were not arabs but berber inerians.

[@EM-tx3ly]

Ummayeds were from Hejaz region then settled in Levant mixing with other Arabs and some mixed with non Arab concubines But in Andalus the Ummayeds were very mixed in fact from Saqr Quraish Abderahman I ( half Berber due to his mother) all of his descendants had Spanish mothers this turned blonde blue eyed white skin like Abderahman III Original Arabs were tanned or brown skinned due to desert but with good diet healthy environment and mixing with others …..

[@duncaninglis5407]

Good onya mate great video I really enjoyed it👍

[@s.s.p.9680]

Did anyone bother to figure out when did the common ancestor of Pasiegos M81 and Berber M81 live? M81 could be 14 000 years old anyway.

[@adamnesico]

Probably just 1300 years ago.

[@chrisgibson5267]

I'm half Spanish, and that side of my DNA is mainly Spanish, then Basque, Portugese, Taino Indian, Sephardic Jew, and then North African. My British DNA is similarly diverse.

[@javiruiz9876]

Sephardic Jew and Taino Indian don't seem Spanish at all. Even North African is not that common.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Taino? You're not Spanish. You have a Puerto Rican ancestor.