How did the Reconquista Actually Happen?

How did the Reconquista Actually Happen?
While many people are aware of Iberia’s religious history including the infamous Spanish Inquisitions, not so many are aware that neither Spain nor Portugal was always controlled by Christian Europeans. In fact, there was a period of almost 8 centuries that marked a tireless power struggle between the Christian Kingdoms and Muslim Caliphates.
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[@reddevilsunited_2060]

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

[@awsomeclipsnow]

Indeed. Spaniards/Portuguese avenged the Gothic Kingdom.

[@reddevilsunited_2060]

@@awsomeclipsnow for the sake of Christendom yes.

[@gururaven]

​@@reddevilsunited_2060 Catholics, not Christians.

[@reddevilsunited_2060]

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

[@craigarkensaw]

​@@gururavenare you dumb? Catholics ARE christians

[@neruba2173]

This is the most underrated underdog comeback of feudal history and never got a movie done.

[@ojancano_bebedor]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid_(film)

[@pepita2437]

They will not make movies where they portray the fight against Islam as a positive thing. This is why they always show us how bad/evil the Crusades were. Europe have had an 1300 years old battle with Islam. If not the Moors, then the Barbary, if not the Barbary, then the Ottomans, or Turkish. They killed/kidnapped/raped/enslaved millions of Europeans but Hollywood will never show us these things in films.

[@hectorfleed7]

​@@ojancano_bebedorNot precisely the best example. Yeah great hollywoodian movie with Charlton Heston but too many mistakes like all hollywoodian Historical movies.

[@user-yv9fq5ym9w]

Isn't that interesting. Such a major part of history. No movies....

[@MK-ps2gw]

@@neruba2173 they can’t make a movie because it will expose their evil of what they did

[@EduSodap]

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

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

Dating?

[@saadkhaion9234]

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

[@Historiaymas.]

interesting

[@ghfudrs93uuu]

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

[@alejandroalonso5386]

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

[@nenenindonu]

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

[@Letnistonwandif]

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

[@DrClock-il8ij]

Fancy way of saying colonization

[@nenenindonu]

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

[@Letnistonwandif]

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

[@Letnistonwandif]

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

[@mtndudesf]

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

[@milosstojakovic7586]

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

[@RockSmithStudio]

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

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

I like how you put more religious in air quotes

[@zakback9937]

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

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Amen.🙏.

[@AlonsoAlonsou]

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

[@elkingoh4543]

Yes, Catholic and Orthodox retribution to Islam

[@masterman9998]

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

[@captainjacksparrow370]

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

[@grandvizir]

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

[@generaldelasmontanas2699]

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

[@santiagocarreno5881]

The Catholic Kings were the original MVPs

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Yes.

[@MichaelMatzek-jy3jh]

agreed

[@earthlingavian1132]

MVP , what is that?

[@djSevalFerrick]

@@earthlingavian1132it stands for MOST VALUABLE PLAYERs

[@samuelgordino]

Debatable

[@wonderwiseS2]

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

[@alwoolridge6377]

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

[@2200Stinger]

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

[@alwoolridge6377]

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

[@chrissweeten6096]

@@alwoolridge6377 no chance whatsoever against us.

[@alwoolridge6377]

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

[@Alex-mn1fb]

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

[@hydnars]

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

[@Alex-mn1fb]

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

[@anastasios0513]

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

[@jcsfc2842]

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

[@Alex-mn1fb]

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

[@futurixta]

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

[@asier_getxo]

It's very contested that Pelayo was even a Visigoth, so I find it hard to claim that Asturias was just the continuation of the Visigoth Kingdom. He was likely an Astur-roman caudillo.

[@vamoneygroup]

The first holocaust

[@hectorfleed7]

Kingdom of Asturias existed really. It was absorbed later by Kingdom of Leon but A Kingdom of Asturias there was.

[@extremecamper95]

true... This guy has made many mistakes but I don't think he did it on purpose.

[@bconni2]

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

[@cerealpipe]

yep, in a time Spain didn't even exist, not for some centuries in that time.

[@edstar83]

​@cerealpipe Thats the go to Portuguese argument, but even if you want reject the the fact that Espania dervrives from "Hispania" and the Visigoths refered to it as "Spania", Castilian is the official national language of Spain is it not? Kingdom of Castile 11th Century 1065 AD Kingdom of Portugal 12th Century 1139 AD Either way, as a Spaniard of Galician heritage, today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation ( instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. ( Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them) Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West.. *Reconquista II Intensifies* DEUS VULT!

[@lillones]

What is a "portugal"?

[@cerealpipe]

@@edstar83 Spain took the name from Hispania, not the other way around.

[@cerealpipe]

@@lillones something someone like you won't ever grasp, but your ancestors did 😉

[@EmisoraRadioPatio]

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

[@SiPakRubah]

So, the genocidal act was also involved too? Interesting

[@EmisoraRadioPatio]

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

[@unanec]

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

[@ryeguy7941]

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

[@ihl0700677525]

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

[@vitorsousa8172]

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

[@habibturay9930]

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

[@cattooo7273]

Eu4 lore is so deep this is amazing

[@itubecollection1623]

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

[@habibturay9930]

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

[@marcind4644]

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

[@raphlvlogs271]

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

[@BoramK9294]

this time in the Trans people

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

What a horror, my Allah!

[@ebonymaw8457]

@@BoramK9294 ?

[@emmett245]

@@BoramK9294 May God punish them

[@BoramK9294]

​@@emmett245 ok guy

[@Josh.G.McN.]

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

[@itcalledfootball600]

We kicked you guys too from Anatolia and Egypt

[@Josh.G.McN.]

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

[@itcalledfootball600]

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

[@LevisH21]

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

[@rizzllerr]

​@@itcalledfootball600enjoy your desert bro

[@SiliconPower74]

We will have to do it again if this political nonsense continues.

[@wikicamara]

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

[@alwoolridge6377]

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

[@lucassmigly6647]

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

[@delaval7767]

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

[@joansuero9063]

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

[@ismaelguzman8256]

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

[@kicocol]

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

[@eskombro]

Of course they do. They always do.

[@elkingoh4543]

No one can expect from the Spanish Inquisitor!

[@orestilamadaseva3936]

You can always expect the Spanish inquisition 😂

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

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

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

What a horror, my Allah!

[@luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334]

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

[@MaximusAugustusOrthodox]

Amen 🙏❤️☝️✝️☦️

[@midomen100]

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

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

PT does exist yet?

[@wzvy]

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

[@SmokingLaddy]

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

[@brunol-p_g8800]

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

[@SmokingLaddy]

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

[@brunol-p_g8800]

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

[@SmokingLaddy]

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

[@macmaniac3080]

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

[@wikicamara]

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

[@EligioCazzaniga]

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

[@SmokingLaddy]

@@EligioCazzaniga You ever heard of the Carthaginians?

[@EligioCazzaniga]

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

[@SmokingLaddy]

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

[@theawesomeman9821]

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

[@ryeguy7941]

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

[@jpfg2713]

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

[@lluis9650]

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

[@rizzllerr]

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

[@jangulherme2243]

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

[@jl9952]

France needs this immediately.

[@vincenttt8289]

Why you such a religious bigot?

[@adamnesico]

@@vincenttt8289ask that in sokoto, afganistan, arabia, pakistan...

[@craigarkensaw]

​@@vincenttt8289because those muslim don't adapt to french traditions. And we must protect our european identity

[@comoestasgracias]

​@@craigarkensawThe pagan dogma created by your paul chrissatanism is slowly dying out in European countries and India (trinity) and also Hindutva (trimurty) and also Buddhism (trikaya), and the real anti-Jewish is your pagan chrissatanism and just so you know your pagan chrissatanism since the beginning when it became the new official pagan dogma for Rome replacing Greek pagan hellenism has killed many Jews, in the reconquista too, in the colonisation of Europe too, in world war 2 too.

[@comoestasgracias]

​@@craigarkensaw😂atheist, agnostic, secularism and liberalism culture is European culture and your chrissatanism culture is the dark ages of Europe which lasted for 1000 years

[@vaktus3380]

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

[@khal7702]

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

[@EmisoraRadioPatio]

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

[@vaktus3380]

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

[@creaflexkhalid8726]

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

[@GXSergio]

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

[@frixxer87]

As a Coptic Christian from Egypt, I really hope that our country can be retaken like the Spanish did. I congratulate the Spanish for their remarkable reconquest of their rightful land

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

never let muslim colonizers rewrite history like they've tried for the Spanish.

[@Holybatman3603]

Boys, we missed another one.

[@frixxer87]

@@Holybatman3603 “Boys we missed another one!” Don’t let me come near you lil’ bro or thine cheeks will be clapped and oiled up 😹😹🙏🙏

[@RAGHIDELGHALLAL-hb2ft]

Hhhhhhh😮😂😂😂😂😂

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Surprised the mods left this comment up... they deleted mine when I drew comparisons of Israelis "colonising" lands around Israel and Arabs colonising land in Egypt.

[@pablodelafuente8226]

I always wonder, why do the English speak of the "infamous" Spanish Inquisition when, in fact, it was the least infamous. With historical records in hand, it was the least deadly in all of Europe. The truth is simple - there has always been a hatred towards Spain, and the Black Legend is there to tell the story.

[@pepita2437]

Propaganda is not a new invention. XD

[@thelasteinherjar6115]

Probably because you came to conquer us and we fought you off, why wouldn't we remember that and it wouldn't be important to us?

[@Idishrkdmd]

This is so true. The Anglo world is purely lied to about anything Catholic, Spanish, Portuguese, etc purely because of the corrupted elite being protestant and hating truth and this is coming from an English man.

[@yeildo1492]

The fact that the English are hypocrites does not mean that Spain is exempt from it. The Inquisition did indeed happen and was disastrous for many Spaniards.

[@xeon39688]

​@@yeildo1492for Arabs *

[@marcothebarber764]

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

[@asturiasceltic3183]

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

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

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

[@youwhat491]

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

[@adamnesico]

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

[@aahil7586]

Bruh

[@basedkaiser5352]

Yes.

[@Ldkdh]

​@@aahil7586Viva Cristo Rey 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing things

[@LanguedocProvenceGascogneMIDI]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="80">1:20</a> The kingdom of Aquitaine foreshadows Occitania. Because feudalism, Aquitaine was divided in many principalities: the Frankish kings took advantage of this division to annex Occitanie (formerly: Aquitaine) piece by piece to their domain between 1213 (annexation of the county of Auvergne) and 1860 (annexation of the county of Nice). The core of present-day France is therefore the agglomeration of the kingdom of the Franks with the former kingdom of Aquitaine, and even Brittany, because Brittany also lost its independence in 1532.

[@Luinedhel]

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

[@EligioCazzaniga]

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

[@EligioCazzaniga]

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

[@anthonyfauci5859]

Who cares

[@antoniomari4126]

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

[@EligioCazzaniga]

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

[@QuijoteModerno]

When Spain is in danger like now the spirit of the Reconquista awakes again, so be ready...🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦

[@Bunyourdesires]

💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@danigonzalez4299]

Hahahahahahaha yeah you'll do it

[@prigual2901]

yes, down with the corruption !

[@danigonzalez4299]

You are a Yoke

[@ellismarquez8410]

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

[@GreoGreo]

🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦

[@rebellefleur2993]

​@@GreoGreoISIS

[@clayton33]

Asturias was Visigothic?

[@frgv4060]

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

[@DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb]

My mothers dna traces back to the basque/Asturias region

[@Brahmdagh]

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

[@OhioDan]

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

[@Orion4976]

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

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

Glory to Spain and Portugal for defending their land and reconquering the Iberian peninsula! Edit: I still get comments of Muslims seething haha. You lost take the L.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

To the rich north Europe.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Hammer or ice pick? Were you there?

[@bvillafuerte765]

@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Remember that northern Europe is poor.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

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

[@thalmoragent9344]

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

[@NUSORCA]

Europe is in need of another one I’m afraid

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

Immigrants aren't carving out their own countries in europe the way Zionists did in britsh occupied palestine

[@rizzllerr]

​@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0they are trying and failing. DEUS VULT, EUROPE FOR EUROPEANS

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

​@@rizzllerrlol how delusional U wish they would try so that u might have an excuse to be violent towards them

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

Jesus said don't be afraid there will be wars but it won't be the end.

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

​@@rizzllerr lol

[@jamesdenecochea5709]

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

[@user-rd5eb2ht7x]

God bless them✝️

[@basedkaiser5352]

Heroes ✝️✝️✝️🇪🇸✝️✝️✝️

[@CryptoDictador-yf4fs]

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

[@hinduskigaandchodo336]

WE MUSLIMS WILL CONQUER U AGAIN

[@soysauce4087]

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

[@IrrationalCharm]

Soon Spain will need a second reconquista

[@E4Mafioso]

The world needs one

[@dimityrpetrov6858]

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

[@polsa8886]

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

[@Frenchman1025]

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

[@royjulianus3830]

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

[@levitatingpotato109]

Protestants at it again with the anti Christian acts.

[@cheeseburger347]

This dude loves saying the word peninsula.

[@rulo1791]

Only one correction, Catalonia never was a kingdom, it was a county of the spanish march, a safety cushion between the muslims and the franks kingdom. The count of Catalonia although had a similar territory and force of some little European kingdoms of that times and a big level of authonomy after the fall of the carolingian kingdom. But as a count formally always depended of the kingdom of the north.

[@Ukepa]

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

[@patricka.crawley6572]

Very good video.

[@_dionisio]

Great video, thanks from Spain 👍🏻

[@miguelsilva1446]

I feel like you were going to talk about the batle of Ourique at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="226">3:46</a> but forgot 😂 For clarification its the first major Christian victory against the Almoravids in the field and where King Afonso the first of Portugal gained the prestige and recognition to declare himself king In são mamede he just took the county

[@lerneanlion]

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

[@weggie5561]

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

[@abriefsummaryofhistory7449]

Based

[@lerneanlion]

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

[@SiPakRubah]

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

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Amen.🙏.

[@Historiaymas.]

Nice video

[@navodmudannayaka3345]

Good video ❤

[@heldermartins8523]

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

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Portugal ainda existe? Vou comprá-lo da Inglaterra.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Que horror!

[@acusticamenteconvusional9936]

España es básicamente la unión del resto de reinos

[@llawliet1391]

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

[@MaximusAugustusOrthodox]

God bless Portugal 🙏

[@uptown_rider8078]

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

[@hinduismroaster]

Islam is the fastest growing religion in Spain and Portugal 😁

[@knighthospitaller634]

​@@hinduismroaster and then we kick them again

[@Indresh2468]

@@hinduismroaster reconquista v2

[@samvel_mmiii]

​@@hinduismroasterNot really

[@MIRAAJMUHAMMAD_666]

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

[@abelmedina8443]

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

[@ksodz1397]

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

[@abelmedina8443]

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

[@ceejay1476]

​@@abelmedina8443are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure all other catalan counties were joined to the demesne of the count of Barcelona before his marriage with aragon.

[@alexnavarro6941]

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

[@harrynewiss4630]

Europe now facing the re-reconquista

[@pepita2437]

What do you mean? Are you talking about the illegal migrants?

[@brunomoretti7594]

​@@pepita2437 Probably, yes. But I wouldn't exaggerate and say they represent a holy war, just bad imigration policies on Europe's part

[@pepita2437]

@@brunomoretti7594 This is because you don't understand Islam. :) In big cities of UK, Sweden and other first world nations have a huge Muslim ninority. In the areas they live in it's very dangerous for police to enter (and they rarely do), and those who live there are living according to the laws of Saria (kind off breaking a law of the countries they're in) And these people are protected at all cost, and the countries don't do anything to help the original inhabitants. Like I have a ton of relatives in Germany and they pretty much live in fear. For ex, these immigrants raped a lots of women, and young boys, but when one of Germany's own politician tried to make thesee statistics public she was arrested. You also kind of underestimate a lifetime of indoctrination. If they became a majority in a country they have an obligation to try to instate an Islamic state. (while if they're the minority they can live by the laws of the nation, because Quran allows this) Also maybe you don't know, but Islam changed very little during the centuries. They still have the very violent laws (for ex public flogging, stoning, honor killing, slavery etc) and it was never reformed. They're trying to take the key politoical/educational roles in Europe (Scotland last Prime minister was an Musulman, and he did wage a war on free speech because we're not allowd to criticize Islam, see Charlie Hebdo) This will not end well for Europeans and to our culture. This is an extremely old fight between Europe and Islam (1300 years old to be precise) Just that now they don't try to use military, but politics, rethorics, and Europe's tolerance laws.

[@aaronlohr8477]

The movie “Children of Men” is the prequel to the English reconquista of Europe.

[@brunomoretti7594]

@@pepita2437 Yes, as I stated before, poor immigration choices. Nothing more than that. For it to be a holy war, there must be a Christian group fighting the muslim group, and Europe doesn't really care about religion anymore. And yeah, there are many violent immigrants, a lot, but generalizing that is a great conspiracy of installing Sharia all around Europe is exactly that, a conspiracy. Europe has been receiving migrants for decades and no new Caliphate has been proclamed yet. And its not really a religious problem at all. Its a demographic problem. Muslims have a high fertility rate while europeans don't

[@Gebeleizis.]

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

[@gregphillipsel9906]

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

[@BenjaLezo]

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

[@stefandusan9629]

​@@gregphillipsel9906Its reality

[@orestilamadaseva3936]

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

[@RigobertosTacoShop]

That’s not even surprising lol

[@eark3425]

Cool video

[@gonun13]

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

[@MrMustang13]

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

[@mybodyisamachine]

​@MrMustang13 how do u know? Source maybe?

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Amen.🙏.

[@darkjudge8786]

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

[@SiPakRubah]

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

[@eb1247]

but muslims cry about the crusades..

[@beatballmix4835]

but Christians cry about Constantinople

[@eb1247]

@beatballmix4835 that lasted about 10 years till Europeans opened trade along Africa to Asia and opened trade to the Americas... Nobody is saltier about that than the Turks who thought they would dictate trade from Europe to Asia forever.

[@eb1247]

@beatballmix4835 and difference is Islam came 600 yrs later by people who never were Christian or jewish..what does that tell you...hijack

[@frank050288]

Excellent video

[@anheuserbusch65]

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

[@sarenartanis1752]

I can recommend you spanish books from Desperta Ferro. You have José Soto Chica for Visigoth Kingdom, or Fritz for Navas de Tolosa and the uses of Reconquista as a political idea. I recommend you Desperta Ferro Books, all in Spanish but you have a great variety of them.

[@anheuserbusch65]

@@sarenartanis1752 Thank you!

[@austin8775]

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

[@ryeguy7941]

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

[@mugikuyu9403]

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

[@ryeguy7941]

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

[@doo2786]

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

[@ryeguy7941]

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

[@stilianjordanov2952]

What is the name of the soundtrack from <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="302">5:02</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="467">7:47</a> I just listened?

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

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

[@EligioCazzaniga]

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

[@juantxu3508]

Spanish Inquisition was the least violent in Europe .

[@itcalledfootball600]

For Christians ofc

[@rizzllerr]

​@@itcalledfootball600cry

[@alexj.denton7453]

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

[@gregphillipsel9906]

Prove it

[@mistersquirrel0]

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

[@Max_Skogr]

Reconquista is the best thing ever happened in history.

[@Omarrah3214]

Nope

[@thedonkey6704]

@@Omarrah3214if allah wanted y’all to win why didn’t he intervene…

[@Omarrah3214]

@@thedonkey6704 he gave us something better CONSTANTINOPLE

[@thedonkey6704]

@@Omarrah3214 which is absolutely useless today. It’s not even turkeys capital now. He didn’t even want you to win after that. Considering Christianity absolutely destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Sorry bud. It’s true

[@nathantorresstanevil6958]

🗿🗿🗿

[@michaelpratt7150]

Covadonga is a pretty amazing piece of real estate. Pretty much in the middle or close enough within the Picos de Europa. We visited there just a couple of years ago. I read that the Muslims were coming back from an area in France and Pelagius became aware of this and also set a trap - knowingly, to take their plunder - and the trap and conquest of the returning Muslims with their own same idea of plundering worked, for Pelagius. Covadonga means cave of the spring, deep cave, or the more accepted cave of the lady, to which there is a small church within a cave within a mountain there. Beautiful to see. Have a café con leche with some cheese and bread on the top of the mountain and see the lakes there also. Even the Church leaders did not realize this battle was the "start" or first battle of the Reconquista until a couple of centuries later.

[@MuggyMeasures]

How fantastic of them to push Islam out. Brilliant!

[@JuvoII]

The Crusades were basically the counterattack, after the Reconquista, to ensure this never happened again.

[@zakback9937]

How beautiful that Islam is returning with Converts accepting Monotheism instead of a religion that has opened itself away to Liberalism.

[@sergio3631]

La razón de que Isabel y Fernando no fueran tan tolerantes con el reino de Granada se debió a que unas décadas antes Constantinopla había caído bajo el Imperio Otomano y ahora un nuevo califa aspiraba a dominar todo el Mediterráneo y a extenderse por Europa, era y fue durante el siguiente siglo la mayor amenaza para los reyes de España, en ese contexto creyeron que no era seguro tener un reino musulmán en la península que pudiera servir de cabeza de playa y posterior base para una eventual invasión. Realmente muy poca gente celebra la fecha de la toma de Granada fuera de la propia Granada, la fecha quedó oculta para mucha gente porque el mismo año que concluyó la campaña militar Colón llegó a América por primera vez .

[@alantello7768]

Proud of being Asturiano.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Puxa Asturias and long live our father King Pelayo

[@AbbasMastan7]

Great Sir

[@whimsiquisitive]

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

[@AMITKumar-fn3qo]

Yes

[@YberDC]

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

[@chufa72]

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

[@mjnaz65]

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

[@shyper_]

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

[@HawkThunder907]

We need it now.

[@mesteme]

@@shyper_ "without a single fight"? Globalists through economic and political manoeuvring have practically been begging for them to invade our lands and culture…

[@foadelhadouchi115]

No bro you need to fight feminism, lgbtq,abortion,transgendre, and the good news is Islam is the only ideology that fights that.

[@nothing00164]

​@@shyper_or they can make them go without killing them maybe deport them

[@kjul.]

The Asturians are the real MVPs ☺️

[@zapre2284]

Coming again very soon.

[@luisangelgonzalezmunoz7071]

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

[@TS-lw5nv]

So the Muslims invaded and colonized a native European land and then the Christian Europeans took back their lands. No one ever talks about the slavery, colonialism, and genocide committed by Muslim hands. The near east was ethnically cleansed of Ionians, phonecoans, Pontiacs, and armenians but no one talks about that because it’s “racist” to criticize Muslim Arabs

[@IyaMiri_ne_Sero-Kizuru]

Fr.

[@vitorpereira9515]

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

[@Yo_Soy_Andres_Cuetlachtli]

Eso mismo 🇲🇽🇪🇸

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

@@Yo_Soy_Andres_Cuetlachtli Mexico does exist yet?

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Meus pêsames.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Congratulations to you. Return soon and always.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Que horror!

[@savagesurpreme7856]

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

[@eneko1714]

"Reconsquista" is concept from 19th and 20th century Spanish historiography that it's under great discussion nowadays. Most of the nowadays Medievalist reject the idea, as a 19th and 20th century nationalistic projection to a medieval past. The truth is that Iberian Middle Ages are much more complex than a unified Christian push towards the unification of the peninsula. And as a side note, Navarre should have much more importance in those maps, these are especially incorrect around the year 1000s. - From a Iberia medievalist.

[@orangotango9231]

one that actually knows

[@zakback9937]

yup

[@carlos92fs87]

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

[@radurozor4742]

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

[@javiervll8077]

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

[@Ihavpickle]

Ok

[@brixcosmo]

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

[@rohankishibe8259]

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

[@vladtheimpaler5454]

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

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

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

[@carlosalvarez4641]

One imprecision: Catalunya was never a kingdom (minute <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="174">2:54</a>), it was part of the Aragon crown.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Interesting and informative video

[@MaximusAugustusOrthodox]

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

[@mateenundre1415]

Same for Constantinople thanks to allah

[@jpor7259]

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

[@themercifulguard3971]

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

[@houseboyx333]

@@mateenundre1415 stupid muslim comment haha

[@drumshero03]

Thanks to the Franks, actually

[@ManuS-rm7jk]

And now in 2023 we need to do it again.

[@nashedanonino5810]

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

[@fenrir7878]

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

[@LuisBita]

Best Regards from Portugal

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Portugal ainda existe?

[@skurinski]

@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 caluda zuca

[@dahenqadirmhamad]

Balkans should have done this too.

[@dillonwheeler7484]

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

[@theroadents1141]

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

[@SmokingLaddy]

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

[@AdamAzzr]

You are not descendant of anything, speak moroccan to me

[@theroadents1141]

@@AdamAzzr The people of Morocco have been coming to Europe for thousands of years, mixed with the Europeans and they left their genes here. 85% of the Moroccan and Algerian men possess the same Y chromosome: E-M183. That's what I have. E-M183 originates from a man who lived in present day Morocco at least 2,500 years ago. I am not Moroccan nor Algerian. I'm European. Adam, if you doubt me look it up. Also, do an DNA test.

[@zetagundam20x]

For the people in Europe watching this (especially you Spanish folk), you can do this again. All the people that came in can’t assimilate into your culture. Remember the reconquista, you can do it again!

[@Duquedecastro]

Would this also be a battle cry for the Natives of the Americas?! Lots of people didn’t assimilate to their cultures

[@oscarpena7285]

@@DuquedecastroMexico and Brazil are the top catholic countries of the world.

[@Duquedecastro]

@@oscarpena7285 I meant that lots of European immigrants did not assimilate to the Native cultures. They have as much right to rally as Europeans do in Europe.

[@chedabu]

Thank God they pulled it off

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

18% remain practicing compared to 40% atheism. But yh, "thank god"

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

God is with G. Please. Return soon but alive. I hope. 💋s to you.

[@chedabu]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j Still better then how their occupiers turned out

[@MrMustang13]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j compared to Muslim countries that just count every citizen as a practicing Muslim? Iran and Turkey are at realistically about 40% practicing themselves.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@MrMustang13 whataboutery. You're ignoring the point

[@knight8675]

Stay strong iberian brothers ✝💪

[@AlphaSections]

You're God damn right!!

[@MIRAAJMUHAMMAD_666]

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

[@janrudnicki6111]

Very good