The Battle of Covadonga 722 AD 

how were they evil?

@@user-dz4pb2ll3kIslâmicos são radicais e não toleram outras religiões

​@user-dz4pb2ll3k Everyone was pretty much evil there almost all armies looted and ruined the lives of the people living in the countryside.

​@@user-dz4pb2ll3kcould have asked them this when they invaded Sassanid Persia enslaved and murder thousands of innocent people. and literally drove an entire religion to extinction ( Zoroastrianism )

​@@user-dz4pb2ll3kThey enslaved millions of women and children in Iberia and exported them into the islamic world as sex slaves. They would castrate young boys. I'm proud of my Spanish 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 1492 AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. (Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them.)

​​@user-dz4pb2ll3k I'm proud of my Spanish 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 1492 AD 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. Solution: *Reconquista II*

@@edstar83Curse you!!

Your present culture is s^^t!

Yes, Andalusian History is incredible

@@skeso2k157 byzantium is reichest in anatolia in science and konwledge and architecture.

​@@skeso2k157 doesn't exist anymore 😂 the Berbers don't even have a country 😂

@@skeso2k157 you had literally 0 reasons to be rude. that being said, where is your andalus now ;)

@@Sina.575 Morocco and Algeria

💪🏽💪🏽

Iberia and Septimania belong to the Muslims! ☪️

Nope, muslim chronicles say that Julian after being humiliated by Roderic joined forces with Muza, enabling the muslim invasion. What happened after that is explained in the video, Tariq led a small berber force which surprisingly destroyed Roderic forces in the first battle and since he didn't find any strong opposition he took the visigoth capital of Toledo, which thanks to its geographical situation was the key of controlling Spain, and once Muza arrived with reinforcements it was over. Visigoths were a very fractioned force, too many parties plotting against each other. So once the ruling party fell, they were doomed.

Visigoths, if you read the cronicles, the roman ones, were super peaceful people for what the germanics used to be. Mostly peasants and sheppers. If you read about them, you learn they were bouncing around for centuries because they really didnt have fighting spirit. Later on, with the romans, they had to harden up, yet they took so much abuse from romans, for centuries they were used like cattle. And yet, all tehy wanted to be was part of the roman empire. The romans never accepted them, betrayed them 1 thousand times.. until they had enough and the shit blew the fan. I guess they just went back to their original culture when they felt confortable in hispania. :).

@@alfgui3295 roderic messed up when he defiled Julians daughter even after already being the killer of his wifes father.

Muslims were much more advanced at that time

@@wattlebough nothing strange. they lost everything to mongols.

That would be just as lit as Jerusalem 1099.

We still more to go to conquer Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Jordon, Tunisia, Syria, Iraq and wipe out the marauders.

Reconquista was about as ugly as the Moorish invasion.

Jesus christ would be appaled seeing these disgusting comments. Blargh.

@Mrwutevah who cares?

You would be surprised how many times marching your army through the narrow valley turned out to be a brilliant strategic move because the enemy didn't expect and there for didn't bother to guard it.

@@ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman when you're dealing with a cocky enemy this is one of the best possible moves

All the land in Asturias is a narrow valley surrounded by rugged mountains.

@@youwilldie8835 you'd think a noblemen on the run would rather be cautious than cocky

Im pretty sure there are a lot of times going through norrow valleys successfully but it's not just well known since no enemy is there

The mountains would've spoken either a Celtic language or Latin.

And those mountainers are now protesting for independence 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Melso Ok I see! Your profile pic is great! May I know how you found that!

The Reconquista was over Spain and Portugal

@@Catubrannos and Basque

Kings and Generals and thanks to you too!

Great day I guess. Uploads from both Kings & Generals and BazBattles.

Kings and Generals dude have you considered using the same box shaped battle units like bazz battles it would be really cool. i love your vids 2.

I agree a very informative and interesting video as always.

Excited for those Napoleonic Wars battles. Keep up the great work

That's not due to mixing though, the Basques were never conquered, either. Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece have always been genetically more similar to the Middle East and North Africa than to Northern Europe.

Mateo G.de A you are wrong lmao, we have more northern blood than you think. These are the northerns that came to here : Indo-Europeans,Celts,Suebis,Alans,Vandals,Visigoths,French nobles and Englishes that came here to help us defend ourselves from Napoleon and many of them started lives here and married and had children.

You have no idea. Phenotype and genotype are diferent things.. Greek and spanish ended up looking "similar" just because both countries are around the same lattitude. Spain is mostly celt, if you look for dna maps, the spanish, french, british, portuguese and northen italians are the most related, then you start to get germanic dna past france, in big quantities. To the contrary of what the english has been saying, the original population of britain wasnt really removed. All these countries are basically of celt blood while east europe is germanic and slavic. In spain, You will find all kinds of "shades" all over spain, the "south" isnt any "darker", not really, it just happens they get more sun, so they get nice sunbaths. You should visit spain in winter, almost everyone looks like a ghost, paper white. Then the summer arrives and the ones who can afford the beach, get a tan. But this is not really that special from spanish people, even people from sweeden and norway tan, i have seen some of those, in spain, darker than moroccans hah.

@@Mateo-oq7ui That is false.

@@heavysaber9431 maybe its why the south is the most backwards,..

Viva Espana :)

Viva españa! Deus lo vult!

Viva Portugal!!!

TheDinisPT jajajajajajajajajajajajaja

@@TheDinisPT Portugal español!

YOU ARE HERE!

KING IN DA NORF !

King in the North!

king of Spain!

Hey, I heard that in a TV show once! I forget what it was called, but it was about a bunch of people playing a game, and whoever won got to sit on a throne and rules the lands...cant remember the name for the death of me though.

A Game of Chairs

All the land is a narrow valley in Asturias, there isnt a plain in all the territorie.

@@BichoBull that’s really not true at all. I should know - I’m half Asturian. But most of the borders of the region are mountains, that is true

@@atlanticdragon4773 Man, im totally Asturian. Was born in Asturias and live in Asturias. The only flat land in Asturias is the coast line, and not all.

En español por favor, también Gracias.

Astra Ben not all heroes wear capes

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Thank you Age of Mythology thor.

This is what I came to the comments section for.

+Small Moustache Man I'll be honest mate, I hate you : it's 5am and you made me laugh so loud i just woke up the entire building....

Can someone explain?

It's a reference to Star Wars Episode III. The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise.

Oh my gosh. I just googled it and the reference is top notch hahah. Thank you.

No, muslims invade Spania

@@tombellum6815 no, they invade the entire Iberian Peninsula (except Asturias)

@@pacorodriguez320 los Musulmanes invaden Spania, que ocupaba más o menos lo que hoy conocemos como península ibérica y que en aquella época era un Reino único visigodo autodenominado Spania (que obviamente deriva de la denominación de la provincia romana Hispania) A Portugal lo reconquista el Reino de León y hasta la época de Alfonso X, es un Reino vasayo o tributario de León. Curiosamente, cuando a finales del siglo XV los Reyes Católicos comienzan a denominar en sus documentos a la Unión de sus reinos como España, protesta el Rey de Portugal, porque esa denominación también incluiría a Portugal

@@pacorodriguez320 except Cantabria...

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yl8iWejuZmM.html

And it lasted 8 centuries!

Lol. 2020.

@@zorusiusprinsus6260 To be fair the last two were basically Castille finding it more profitable to milk Granada for tribute then conquering (and thus having to manage it) directly.

@@TheSunderingSea they tried but they lost So they chose to take tribute

The narrator is also really good but in my opinion the animator is a bit of a underdog (unless it is the same person but that is not the point ;P)

Fortnite sucks.....

Princess Theodora the Channel is about history, not about current affairs

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They wouldnt depress us with these videos if it wasnt to built up to a Reconquista series :)

hannibal barca like the original conquest of spain by the muslims wasn't a slaughter of christans amd jews... dude war and history. At least one side has stopped killing for god.

A video about the siege of Lisbon would make my day :)

Too late. :(

😨 but not Portugal ! 😛 Porrugal is not spain !

Terror portugal is spaim

@@terror1234 Portugal is just little Spain to be honest

@@terror1234 No one said it was?

Comeback💀

​@@Omarrah3214kinda This win is the sole reason reconquesta worked properly

Like a sir!

The narrator seems to be shockingly neutral and non-biased - I am quite shocked. Hell, he even mentioned how the Jizya levied on the Spanish got too high and the people rebelled

Weren't there Vikings left in North Africa that made some pickled fish juice? Or salted fish juice? I read about it years ago.

@@alexanderstrickland9036 They say Vikings even reached Constantinople from northern Europe through rivers , boy these guys went places. They kind of remind me of Mongols.

@@elumiomerk4013 That's the interesting thing about history. A kingdom's borders only represents the physical boundaries of the realm and even those were more loose boundaries dictated by conquest rather then actual physical entities. It's people however went great distances, either as merchants, travellers, mercenaries or in exile/pilgrimage to many places, didn't cathage at one point employ Vikings as their most elite units? That idea made the world seem much more well travelled then just a school education could ever provide. That and the 1st crusade honestly reminds me of most DnD groups I've been in. XD

@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 Thanks for the reply man. I wish I could somehow gather all the wonderful people I encounter in these youtube comments into some kind of forum. I am so hungry for intellectual conversation, the people around me either do not have such inclinations or do not possess a multi-faceted view of life. Oh and about the first crusade, yes they seem like a disfunctional group of people who always make a jab at each other but..... who actually got things done.

amazing joke!

Boom boom!

Miguel Secades The reason they attacked France is because the caliphate put an arab leader instead of tariq ibn zyad who was a berber. If it was for the berbers they would’ve never attack France.

Who cares... Modern France is half muslim lol

@@SAADOFFICIAL436 about 10% actually...

same

what? ck2 has no military strategy whatsoever, maybe if it was total war

Just imagine a mix of both... damn someone has to make it possible

Jordi, imagine the economics and politics of EU4, the dynastic considerations of CK2 and the battles of Total War. If something like that existed... Well, then I might as well quit my job.

Thanks, even if it is 2 years late...

Thank you memet

true, I am one of them...

Primarch Roboute Guilliman Yes I'll also write .. allah akbar

hannibal barca Begone Saracen!

Primarch Roboute Guilliman DEUS VULT

Deus Ackbar

Allah Vult

que horrible letra

Asturias is Celtic land and always will be

@@deanfirnatine7814 ...Yeah? And?

Spanish traitor us descendants from swabians, Castella never was great as Portugal and lusitans around the world. They're until now, our nowadays.

​@@deanfirnatine7814las Asturias son Ibericas ante de ser como usted dice Celtas

Just borrow from the Lannisters :p

También la de Cartagena de Indias

@@felipeordonez2883 El que hace los vídeos creo que es británico lo veo jodido.. jajaja

looks like a desert expanding all over the peninsula

Exactly; comparing to other parts of the world, the best most civilised era of this region was under Islam control (8 centuries)

I think he means it because Green is the Color of Islam, but here is depicted as the color of Christians troops

Eu4.exe has stopped working

Ck2 i know.

OverSizedMidget isn't that just a regular sized person

Is the Battle of Covadonga even taught in spanish schools today?

I would not know I went to an international school.

Yes, it is taught.

of course!

You've hit the nail on the head

And the Basques are Orkney, then?

Much closer to the welsh, i'd said.

+Andrés What makes you say that?

Capricho both are principalities which are given to the heir of king. Also, Welsh were the remaining britons after the anglosaxon invasions. It is not a perfect analogy, though. Climatology and stuff is similar too.

Y quien te dice que tienes sangre visigoda tambien puedes tener sangre pura Iberica . Igual que PELAYO Tambien podia tener sangre pura Iberica o visigoda a lo mejor celta .Saludos d' un lusitaniano Hispanico😅

Los iberos no estaban en Asturias. Era tierra celta, los iberos estaban en el levante. En Asturias había celtas y después suevos y godos.