Do Modern Spanish and Portuguese People have North African or Arab Blood? 

Let me know your thoughts on the origin of the Spanish and Portuguese people! Thanks for watching! Feel free to check out my second channel where we will be discussing geography and demography: ru-vid.com/show-UCzQ_KS2ikIc_sLtZBmZBWOw

I remember a girl in high school being shocked that a Spanish exchange student was White. So I had to educate her about where Spain is located. A lot of people in America associate Spanish with Mexico, so their image of a Spaniard is incorrectly a mestizo.

I'm Portuguese, once I was very tanned, after living in England for years now, I'm very white 😭😂

Great video! I’m myself of Portuguese ancestry in Brazil. Good for North Americans understand that Latino is an European term. Latin Americans are genetically and culturally descendants of the Iberian peninsula, but depending on what region in the continent the mix is completely different.

According to recent genetic studies, the Spanish the genetics hace a genetics of between 70 to 80 % Celtic (depending on the área of Spain), followed by Latín (by the Romans) and Germanics (by the Visigoths, Suevi, Vandals and Alans). However, the Bereber/Arabic component does exist, but it is minimal (Spain expelled all Jews in the 15 th century and the few remaining Arab in the 16th century after J.C.). You can see the Spanish genetic map on the Internet. In the United States, they think that Spaniards are the same as Mexicana mestizos, but they understand each other by proximity and having no other reference. But physically, Spaniards are very different from Mexicans.

Hi, I am from Portugal and here are the results of my DNA test: - Iberian. 32,6,% - British and Irish. 31,9% - Italian. 12,2% - Northen african. 19% - Miiddle East. 3,4% - Papua New Guine 0,9%

I would like to know why Americans are so OBSESSED with the concept of "race" and all that has something to do with it It is almost like their entire perception of the world, history and the foundation of their country is based primarily in that concept There is no other Culture that I know of, that has that kind of fixation with the "race" and its classifications

It is also worth pointing out that there were frequent emigration events from Ireland to Spain (and France) after every uprising against English rule. For example, the famous US chess player Paul Morphy was the descendant of an Irish soldier and his Catalan wife. The surname was changed the from Murphy to Morphy before the family went on to emigrate to New Orleans.

I wish i had seen this 4 years ago. It took me almost this long to figure all this stuff out on my own! Great video

Not mentioned in the video is the strong presence of Celtic genes in the Iberian gene pool.

People usually think (and you show it in your video) that dark hair and eyes are something related to the muslim world, it´s not, it´s older than that. It´s something shared with all mediterranean cultures, since the time when neolithic farmers arrived from Anatolia. In fact, dark eyes/hair and white skin (predominant in Spain) are the typical phenotype of one of the oldest and largest groups of cultures in Europe (shared as well with the people of Wales and Ireland non mixed with saxons and vikings).

Galician is an official language with its own literature and its forms. It is taught up to high-school and a mandatory subject to access to university if you take the exams in Galicia. Furthermore, it comes from the "Galaico-Portugués" which covered half of today's Portugal. So, yeah, it hardly "comes" from the portuguese as you put it in the video.

I was born in Spain with a mother from Sevilla and a father who’s parents were from Asturias. It’s interesting that you mentioned how many Spaniards have North African DNA. I recently had a DNA test and have 2% North African DNA as well as 1% Sardinian DNA. 68% Spanish as well as some French and Portuguese.

By the way there are more Arabs in England, France, Sweden by far than Spain.

My mother, a Spaniard, just had her dna tested by 3 companies. She was found to be nearly 100% Spanish. She had a miniscule amount of Portuguese, French, and Basque dna. Nothing from North African, Arab, or Germanic traces. Her family as far back as we know is from the Salamanca region.

I am from the North of Spain and I got 98% Iberian and 2% Irish. I didn't get absolutely no MENA... Many of my friends got similar results.

I appreciate you posting this video. I try to discover as much information about my ancestors' as possible. My great grandmother on my father's side was Mescalero Apache, french Canadian, Spanish and Dutch. I've been wanting to learn more about Spain for a while.

I've been to both Spain and Portugal and can say both countries are beautiful. The people are lovely too, friendly and welcoming.

THAT WAS A VERY GOOD ,YET CONCISE VIDEO! THANKS

Thank you for sharing this wisdom..im gonna start learning

im blond and lightskinned but i live in the south of portugal

The World still is flooded by ignorance, namely at USA ...

Masaman, you just helped me immensely with my intellectual project Human Colonies. - This is the first time I hear someone explain concisely and correctly the consequences of conquests.

Love your videos. You do excellent research and are very thorough.

Biology, ethnicity and nationality are three diferents things. The territories can be conquered, the genes can be mixed, but traditions can remain along the centuries. Before Romans, Germanics and Moors, the Iberic Peninsula was already inhabited for thousands of years. Portugal is a small country, but the accent, the traditions and the way of living can be very different from region to region. The North of Portugal as a ancient celtic territory it's still nowdays diferent from the South of Portugal.

Portuguese was born from medieval Galician, and not the other way around. Look it up.

Loved this Video. I have done a lot of research on the history of Spain and Flamenco but it is hard to find this type of information. Thank you so much for making this video.

If you go all the way to the beginning, we are descendants of Adam and Eve, may God be pleased with both of them. Which makes all of us brothers and sisters.

I would say 80% of the population has at least 5% or less. I myself did a dna test a few years ago, I don’t know how much you can trust them, but here go my stats: 84% Iberian, 12% Northern European, 2% Balkan, and 2%. North African. Both my grandparents from my mom side have gallego, and Portuguese heritage, and my other grandparents are Catalan.

What you said it makes perfect sense. I was born in Brazil and I took a DNA test and came out with Portuguese Spanish Celt DNA and 2% of North African but my brother took it and had 0% of North African

Thoroughly enjoyed your breakdown on the genetic & cultural pool that exists in the Iberian peninsula. Having Tuga heritage myself, I have keenly studied the impacts of the differing cultural groups that have shaped my ancestors of my male lineage. Lusitan, Celtiberian, Roman, Visigoth, Moorish/Morisco & Cigano/Gypsie to get a sense of self. I would love to see a similar study on the Cigano influence & origins in Europe, & how they r linked. It would b an interesting subject to look at, which I imagine might require DNA analysis as a basis, as much as cultural similarities.

Very instructive; thank you.

The thing that I noticed on Arabs, Spanish and Italians When we speak We must use our hands 🤣😂

By the way, I would like to suggest another topic: After the Reconquista, when Spain forced Muslims and Jews to convert, many Muslims and many Jews continued to practice their faiths in secret. The Muslims in particular produced fascinating texts, including the first translation of the entire Quran from Arabic to Spanish, in 1606. The final documented instance of a crypto Muslim in Spain was 1725, about 200 years after the forced conversion. This would be a fascinating topic. Give it some thought!

The mostly remaining Arab things in Portugal are on Our Language Words started by Al, (Algarve, Alfena) citys, xarope too. Including some castles, Fruits/Trees

Mason i could watch your videos all day , your videos are better than history class! Please don't stop uploading this content!

The Iberian peninsula had the most volatile and violent history Balkans: Pathetic

I am Moroccan and I had my DNA analyzed - apparently I am 25% Iberian (Spain, Portugal)

I'm algerian from north Africa zone and I did DNA with results 94% north African ( Amazigh) 2 % iberian 2% Italian 1% Nigerian, we shared blood with iberians

It’s crazy because I’m Portuguese by blood but my father believes we have north African or Jewish descent in our family Because of our facial features and physical appearance. From what I know I am white and I come from Northern Portugal but I have extremely curly curly hair and my undertone is all over! I also get extremely dark in the summertime that people mistake me for South American, middle easter or even Egyptian ! So crazy My brother literally looks like an Arab man and always gets mistaken for it where my father can also pass as Arab or Jewish, very interesting video and so cool to see this

I like the way you mention the genetic heritage too. You are damn good man. Love it.

The mayority of DNA of Spain is not Arab or Roman, the mayority is still today Celt and Iberian, the preroman people. Cavalli Sforza one of the best experts om genetics in history did study that in the 80s. The dominant culture is of course Roman culture which is culture which takes a lit from every country they conquered.

Spanish history is fascinating to say the least. I did a deep study of Iberian peninsula about a year ago. Columbus' timing have been better considering Spain was a new nation. The gene pool is crazy.

Really nice to learn of these things. Thank you.

You also forgot to mention that the Spanish have a lot of Celtic roots as well, but still fantastic video.

Moors weren't black. They were a mix between Arabs and Berbers who also weren't black. The Nilotics, Cushitics, and Bantus are black.

Hi, surely DNA results depend on which part of Spain or Portugal your ancestors come from? example, my family is originally from North Eastern Portugal. My DNA results show 0% north African. Mostly, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scottish and some italian?

Thank u for this bro

I am from Portugal and Portuguese people are a Romance ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese . Their predominant religion is Christianity , mainly Roman Catholicism . Historically , the Portuguese people's heritage includes the pre-Celts Tribes it calls (Celtiberians , Lusitanians , Gallaecians , Oestriminis , Turduli and Celtici ) , from whom the majority of the population descends . My land used call Lusitania and we call ourselves Lusitanians and the Roman Republic conquered the Iberian Peninsula during the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C , from the extensive maritime empire of Carthage during the series of Punic Wars . The Romans were also an important influence on Portuguese culture , the Portuguese language derives mostly from Latin . The Lusitanians (or Lusitānus/Lusitani in Latin) were an Indo-European speaking people (likely Celtic Tribes ) living in the Western Iberian Peninsula long before it became the Roman province of Lusitania (modern Portugal , Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca in spain )The Turduli , Celtici and the Cynetes Tribes of the Alentejo and the Algarve . They spoke the Lusitanian language , of which only a few short written fragments survive . Most Portuguese consider the Lusitanians as their ancestors . Although the northern regions (Minho, Douro, Tras-os-Montes) identify more with the Gallaecians north of spain . Other minor influences included the Phoenicians/Carthaginians from north of africa , small semi-permanent commercial coastal establishments in the south before 200 BC .The Visigoths and Suebi Tribes , and including the Buri Tribes , permanently established in the early 5th century of Slavic Tribes origin , who also settled in what is today Portuguese territory in north of Portugal . The Berbers Tribes is other minor influences in the portuguese culture , migrated from North Africa in 7th century A.C , they used settled themselves in Alentejo and the Algarve .

When it comes to Galician and Portuguese. It's like we're both speaking galician-portuguese but galicians grow up with spanish television and portuguese with portuguese television. So when you cross the border you get pretty much the same language but COMPLETELY different accents lol

North African ≠ Arab Thats like calling Sicilians Roma Italianos. Just because a group of people come from the same land, doesn't mean they're all the same!!

Interesting channel..I'll be sure to continue to explore it's content.

Columbus wasn't Italian either. He was Genoese. The country "Italy" doesn't exist then.

Yes, I travel to Barcelona and Madrid Spanish are whites, people confused burn skin in summer with real skin colour white.

I’m from southern Spain (Jerez) and had my 23andme test done. I have no Northern African dna. The difference in culture and religion kept the Christians and Muslims apart.

Excellent Episode 👍

I don’t particular care what the admixture is, it produces beautiful women.

Racial purity, blood and bloodline was very important in Spain before the Inquisition, but people who are not white try to ignore this.

I'm from Cuba but my 23andme results were 95.4 % Spanish and Portuguese, 0.3 Jewish, 1.9 north African. 1.5 SSA, 0.8 native American and 0.1 unassigned

Thanks for this.🙂

I'm spanish descended and I've always confuse with iranian or arab. 😅 Anyways I love middle east peoples

Im Tunisian and i have Spanish origins from the side of my mother's family (they are white with black hair and eyes) and half italian, half berber from the side of my father's family (they are white, but more with green or blue eyes and blond hair) ! I really like how history participate in this beautiful mix ♥️ Finally im a pure child of Mediterranean 💙

if we have this mix? I do not know. but I'm not ashamed of my ancestors. I don't care if they mixed with other people. without each one of them, I wouldn't be here. That's why I'm proud of them all. and I'm Grateful. Greetings🇵🇹

Only the South is mixed, not the North. However, I saw Portuguese people who looked exactly as Ronaldo and several Moroccan footballers but Ronaldo has Cape Verdean ancestry from the Azores but most of them I met were Lisbonese citizens.

The comment section is far more interesting than the video itself xD

Omg ! Portugal is also a “ melting pot “ of races ! We have blonds and red haired people or blue eyed or green eyed more in the North of Portugal, or Olive color people in the south, but we all Portuguese !

Where do you think all the names like Alcaraz and Aldama come from?

There was actually very little mixing between the muslims and the christians in Spain. Genetic studies show that spaniards are much closer genetically to germans than to moroccans.

Can you do a video on the places ancient Phoenicians dispersed to after their empire fell, and ancient immigration waves of Southern Italy?

Maybe mixed with north africans but definetly Not arabs

I enjoy these videos a lot and I hope there’s more about different areas of the globe. I think some things I noticed, were the use of “El and Al” in both Arabic and Spanish. Also, the city of Medina and people from Spanish speaking countries with the surname Medina. The migration of people and languages has always interested me.

Thanksso much very interesting video nice to see you in video

Every autosomal (full ancestry - determines phenotype) DNA study has the Portuguese strongly clustering with Spaniards, French and North Italians. There is also some closeness with the Swiss. The Portuguese are predominantly an Atlantic Facade population group. In addition, the ongoing DODECAD ancestry autosomal project has recorded European and West Asian (Anatolian) DNA affinities close to 90% (~ 80% European and ~ 7% Anatolian) for Portugal. Portuguese also have more than 36% N. European input, third highest in Southern Europe behind France (~ 50%) and Spain (~ 38%). One study actually has Portugal with more Balto-Finnic than Poland, 3.5% for the former and ~1.25% for the latter. As far as Haplogroups are concerned, check the Eupedia tables. Combined Y-DNA and mt-DNA shows a hugely dominant percentage of Western European Haplogroups. There are also some Balkanite and Anatolian (Y-DNA J2) markers (due to ancient Greek and Phoenician settlements, jews and muslims couldn't marry people from other faiths). Near Eastern frequencies in total are rather minor.

5:30 Galician is impossible to be a dialect of portuguese. Both came from old galician or what is called now galaico-portuguese. Galician exists even before Portugal was created. Also, catalan is not a dialect. ¿A dialect from what language?

Thank you for a great look at the history of the Iberian peninsula... my ancestors are Spanish Jew/Moor... it's been an interesting journey discovering the family history...

I am Iberian and also have just a little Moroccan / North African. I always had a feeling this is why we have that mix. Thank you for this beautiful video!

One thing the Columbus comment: I researched a bit a month ago, and nobody knows where he is from, since he didn't want people to know. However he left some clues and it has been mentioned more than once that he is from Genoa, which although is now a part of Italy, it was an autonomous state back then. He wasn't Italian, but from Genoa. (Saying he was Italian is like saying Romans were Italians).

Race is a slippery concept. There are too many 'grey areas' to categorise racial differences precisely. Culture and heritage are more important.

Would you please discuss these topics in relation to the Azores and Madeira? I’m from Hawaii and our ancestors came from there exclusively? Thank you

I really don't want to be technical about this, but when Columbus was alive there was no Nation called Italy.. Therefore, he wasn't Italian.

Interested in this video because I just received my DNA results from 23andMe. I was almost certain that my Sicilian ancestry would have strong Greek associations but according to the results I have Spanish/Portuguese associations; plus some Arab/Egyptian/Lavantine and Anatolian components. I'd like to find out how long ago this may have happened. Both maternal grandparents were Sicilian (born and raised). There was never any talk of Spanish/Portuguese or North African/ Middle Eastern associations. Sicily was occupied over time by many different groups - after reviewing the results my first thoughts were Carthaginians or Moors. The Italian.Sicilian component is 43.2%; Spanish/POrtuguese is 5.7% and the Greek & Balkan is 0.2%.

Hello I'm Spanish and here is my DNA results: 39.8% Iberian 25.3% Irish or British 18.6% Ashkenazi Jewish 10.6% Nordic 5.7% North African

This is a very good video, very well made. I'm a descendant, a mixture of Spaniards and the wild savages who populated the Americas before their arrival.

Thumbnail photo should include Portugal written as well. Also I wonder if French are included in this because wasn’t part of France conquered by the Moors as well. Not to mention a bit of France is Iberia as well so, which doesn’t mean they would have to be conquered by the Moors.

*I dont know for sure, but I think Italians and French are also very mixed with Arabs.*

Spain is white, some Spaniards are dark skin, but are Caucasian.

anyone thinking that italians, spaniards, and portuguese (from portugal) are not white is a complete fool

The whole world is mixed for thousands of years 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

A little of history: The conquer of the Iberian peninsula by the Muslims was in 15 years. The form to conquer this territory was intelligent and quick and it's not how the speaker is imaging. The Muslim army defeated the last king of the Visigoths who in this period was inside a civil war. The Muslims did pacts with the local noble and they respected the properties and titles only with one condition, they should use the Muslim religion. A lot of nobles changed their religion and stayed in their places and their cities and the same with the people. When the Muslims conquered the peninsula they not killed all inhabitants and replaced them with others from the north of Africa. The war's conflicts were a few. Really the people were the same but the governors were Muslims and Berbers. The Christians who didn't want to stay with the Muslim governors went to the north of the country and found Asturias a new Christian kingdom. It's the reason then you can discover that the people in Spain and Portugal are white, amazing.

My parents are from Mexico and I have an Arab last name.

It's sad that so many Americans don't know the difference between speaking Spanish and being a Spaniard

My (northern Portugal) manager calls me, a southern Portuguese, a "moor". I love it so much :D

I'm Spanish and I'm super white

As a Vietnamese, I find many Portuguese and Spanish people to be very beautiful. I especially love the nice Portuguese people and their warm welcoming culture. And the Portuguese cuisine is one of the best in the world! I wish to revisit this fascinating land again.

No, Spaniards hardly have Arab or North African blood, most have Neolithic Farmer ancestry from Anatolia which Arabs also share but Arabs also mixed with South Asians and other populations whereas Spaniards also have the Western Hunter Gatherer and Ancient North Eurasian ancestry that other Europeans have in higher amounts, Spaniard genomes have Neolithic Farmer ancestry predominantly.

Spain and Italy are two of the most beautiful, unique, and diverse countries in Europe and the world. With gorgeous people and rich cultures. Their proximity and conflicts with Northern European nations, the Middle East, and Africa are a big reason for this.

Spaniard are whites i was living in Madrid for 4 years They are whites and very patriots

Hello, interesting video but went a bit short in those mentioned influences not talking about the main substrat of Iberian people, as the name says the Iberians (modern Basques), formed the bulk of the population that colonized the region up to all Western Europe in pre historic times with the expantion of agriculture, these people substituted the original hunter gatherers. But the most important that missed in your video was the enormous influence of the Celtic culture around 500 BC. The Celts had such a cultural and genetic influence mostly in the western half of the peninsula that still today the region of Galicia presents the name of one of those tribes (the Galli), and Portugal name is a composit word for Portu+Galli = meaning the port of the Gall tribe. Depending on the region up to 60% of the population has Celtic genetic roots and this is evident in so many ways in the culture specially in the NW. Just have a look to these videos from Celtic Portugal and Spain: from NE Portugal - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OK-Es0RXBnk.html Bagpipes, kilts, war dances and sward dance are not exclusive from the British islands - Another intersting video: the celtic type of dancing from different regions of Portugal, Spain, France, UK and Ireland - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pMwuOIipOAw.html. Cheers!

More than 700 years Spain was under Islamic domination , but this doesn't mean arab , at the beginning a very small part of islamic army were ethnically arabs , most of the were berbers and other north africans , arabs were only the top elite who ruled the Al Andalus , the most rich country in the world at that time , Cordoba was the second largest city in the world next to chinese Shenyang (current Xi'an). It was actually the most beautiful,peaceful and cultural part of the Europe

I'm Dominican with my father's side being heavily Spaniard. When I traveled to Egypt people kept telling me that my resemblance to the local population was uncanny. Then the first time I took a strong look at my dad (who could pass for a Pakistani or even afghan man). Did some reading and it all adds up. Arab looking by way of Spaniard decendancy.