The History of Iberia: Every Year 

I feel like Iberia is always underepresented in world history. The peninsula had a very rocky history before the 1500s, but nobody really talks about it.

I'm honestly surprised that you did not show the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in more detail.

Spain is a badass country! Respect from Poland 🇵🇱

Hi Spain it's your nieghbour, Portugal. We are still here, much love!

Spanish history deserves more attention. Celts and Iberians, Greek and phoenician colonies, Rome, visigoths, muslims, christian kingdoms, disvoverement of a new world, conquest of America, Philippines, even the Netherlands were Spanish!

Greetings from Italy latin brothers, may our nations be great again

Where is the roman conquest? you just skipped 200 years of war...

Love Spain and Portugal from your latin brother Romania 🇷🇴❤️🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸

I was very surprised when I saw the sudden change for the blue Territories. Then I remembered- Oh Napoleon, how could've I forgotten.

Greetings to our friends from Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain from your neighbour 🇦🇩🇬🇮🇵🇹🇪🇦

Im from Spain, and im so proud of our history and i feel proud of having been conquisted by those states that make Spain be like Spain is now ❤️Love Portugal too 🇪🇸🇵🇹

The Suebian peoples of North Portugal, Galicia and Asturias has left a unique taste in the Iberian Peninsula

Finish The Reconquista ( x ) Iberian Wedding ( x ) The Portuguese Crown ( x )

curious fact: the word Spain (España) It derives from "Hispania" which was the name that the Romans gave to the peninsula, during the Middle Ages the entire peninsula was called Spain despite having several kingdoms, since Spain was the name of a geographical region and not of any country second curious fact: the kings of León used the title of "emperor of Spain" although Spain was not yet a country, this happens because, as I said before, Spain was a geographical nameThey used it because León was the most powerful kingdom in the peninsula, that is, the most powerful kingdom in Spain. This is why when King Felipe II unites Spain with Portugal, he calls himself "emperor of all Spain." And if Spain is called like that, it is because the objective with which Castile and Aragon were united was to unify the entire peninsula, something that could not be achieved by the Portuguese restoration war. third curious fact: the word "Al-Andalus" descends from the word "Vandhaucia" which means "land of vandals" since the Germanic vandals came to Africa from the peninsula, and at that time it was used to name the entire peninsula, not just Andalusia. fourth curious fact: the Greeks called the peninsula iberia, like the area that is now Georgia, they did so because the Iberian indigenous people reminded them of the Georgian indigenous people, since both peoples lived on the banks of the rivers Fifth curious fact: in Spain, specifically in the south-western area, the kingdom of Tartessus developed, the first organized state in western Europe and One of the first states in Europe, surpassed only by Greece, ate a lot with Greeks and Phoenicians sixth curious fact: the word Gibraltar does not come from Spanish or English, but from Arabic, it means "the stone of tarik", it was given that name in honor of General Tarik, who led the conquest Of the peninsula, originally it was called "Gilb Ar Tarik" but the word was deformed Fun fact: Muslims called the Iberian Peninsula al-Andalus and called the rest of Europe "Hispalis"

Love from France 🇫🇷 ❤️🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸

1:46 top 10 saddest anime deaths

Spaniards we want our colonies back . :D Greetings from Greece to Portuguese and Spanish friends !

respect from eastern iberians (Georgia)

Gadir (Cádiz) its a city founded by phoenicians around 1100 bc

There is a spanish surname (Matamoros) that means literally "Moors slayer".

Great detail showing the conquest of Lisbon by Alfonso II riding 700 Kms from Oviedo around the 800 CE!!!! It really impressed me, it reveals a profound researching work. You got my 10!

The land on the edge of the Mediterranean, a stones throw away from Africa. I plan to learn Spanish one day and go there. The history is incredible.

only one mistake that the English speakers always make: Castile and Aragon had not joined after Fernando and Isabel got married. Both Kingdoms would unite after the establishment of the Bourbon dinasty in the 18th century.

Hello from Caucasian Iberia. We were Christian warriors of the East. God bless both of his Iberias!

This geographic style map look really good. Keep on with it. Nice work.

Did you actually not include TARTESSOS??? And neither Viriato... Technically, you skipped all the Ancient Age. Also, you didn't show the civil wars of the XIX century (the Carlist Wars).

The first parliament in history was in the Kingdom Of Leon. "The cortes of León from year 1188 was a parliamentary body in the medieval kingdom. According to the UNESCO, It is the oldest documentary manifestation of the European parliamentary system with some temporal continuity".

Greetings from Greece , Love Spain so much 💘

Do people not realise that the vast majority of the Muslims in spain were ethnic iberians who converted to Islam? Although the ruling class of the Muslim kingdoms were foreign Arabs/Berbers the vast majority of the Muslims living in spain were ethnic iberians who simply converted to Islam after years and years of Muslim rule. They mostly reverted back to catholocism after the inquisition though.

جدك الغيثُ إذا الغيثُ همى يا زمان الوصلِ بالاندلُسِ لم يكون وصلُك إلّا حُلما في الكرى او خِلسةَ المُختلسِ 😢😢 حب الاندلس في قلب كل عربي محترق 😢

5:19 -5:39 France goes from Kingdom to Republic to Empire to Kingdom to Republic to Empire to Republic.

Classical Era: 0:35 Medieval Era: 1:04 Renaissance Era: 3:54 Industrial Era: 5:09 Modern Era: 5:42 Atomic Era: 5:53 Information Era: 6:03

Not a single video goes by without the British Empire showing up on the map somewhere...

Good choice of background music. The maps super job.

Very nice job amazing to see the changes in this way. Thanks👍

I want to remark several mistakes on the video. The first one is related to the Kingdom of Navarre, between 1198-1200 Navarre lost the Basque territory instead of 1344. In the south Spain there are two kingdoms that were formed in 1233 when Ferdinand III of Castille conquered the most part of the south, Jaén and Córdoba were called kingdoms and these kingdoms don't take part from Toledo. Seville, Cordoba and Jaén and Granada were called the four kingdoms of Andalusia.

And thus some of the biggest empires and my two personal favorites were born in Iberia....

Awesome video and soundtrack. Props up from Portugal

Undoubtedly one of your best videos.

1:45 Don't mind me, just some *FREEREALESTATE!*

It is funny how most of people who get butthurt in the comments because of the Muslim invasion is not even Iberian. Well, turns out I am, and I don't think the invasion was specially a wrong thing. Of course almost any kind of war isn't good at all, but it is true that Muslims brought cultural enlightenment and economic development to Iberia (Cordoba became the second most populated city in Europe, following only Constantinople). However, I don't mean they should have stayed, because the Christian Spain (and also Portugal) after the Reconquista achieved great things too. And we have to bear in mind that the ultimate result of history is our existence, so it is a total stupidity to waste your time insulting present people because some of our ancestors killed each other. Just relax and enjoy the video, please.

I love the underlying map that you used! I adds a lot to see mountains, hills, flat terrain and rivers.

There’s is a error the kingdom of asturias was never fully occupied there a couple of years when it off the map when it shouldn’t

*Blas de Lezo, para vosotros ingleses*

I'm Spanish and it's ridiculous to feel angry against muslims for invading the peninsula 500 years ago. Spain didn't even exists as a nation. There was a piece of land conquered several times by different empires and kingdoms. Every tribe and every empire is part of us today. Our architecture, our culture, even our language is what it is thanks to the mix of cultures who lived in our actual country. Lastly I want to say that the muslim empire who conquered the peninsula was far more advanced in culture, science, astronomy, and many other aspects than the tribes like visigoths who were settled in here. You should visit Cordoba or Sevilla for example. Compare it with visigoth architecture and you will notice who were the barbarians immediately.

You know what? I first only wanted to see yet another of Your fine map animations (is my impression wrong or are the ancient years in a less resolution - never mind). But what really made my day was this MUSIC!!! It triggered me to spend some hours to find more about it, there are many versions on RU-vid. So You gave us a double joy: the maps and the music. THANK YOU!

The video is way more interesting and useful than the comments. You ain't gonna find as many useful comments below, trust me. Just a few, that's it.

Just a few corrections I'd like to add. From at least the countship of D. Teresa, and reafirmed by the Treaty of Tuy, Portugal owned the lands of Astorga (assuring them to D. Afonso Henriques). D. Afonso Henriques took several galician castles, which lead to the Treaty of Tuy, after D. Alfonso VII fought back. Portugal didn't have the same borders, in the Treaty of Alcanizes, there were some land swaps between both realms. For 4 years, D. Fernando I of Portugal was the king of Galicia and Leon. The Kingdom of the Algarve of Beyond the Sea in Africa included other territories other than Ceuta. Though it is small, you could also include the microstate of Couto Misto

You should do a video about "History of Eurasian Steppes". I really think it would be interesting because of its influence it had on Europe, the Middle Eat and Eastern Asia.

Hey Ollie, Great video but it'd be awesome if you could slow down the year by year rate. It's a bit to fast. Maybe that's just me but I really liked to be able to grasp all the border shifts in a single year instead of a general idea. Once again, great video thanks!

Good vid and amazing music

I like how you decided to include olivença as part of Portugal, very good job indeed

Morocco, my God 500 years in Liberia A lot of Spaniards believe that these buildings were built by the Spaniards and do not know that the Moroccan Muslims built it

Andorra, being like "try and invade us, we strunk

Respect Iberian people From Georgia SAKARTVELO 🇬🇪

Lusitani extremeno ❤️🇪🇦🇵🇹 tribe of warriors im proud of my amcienty

Great work, Ollie! (p.s, Personally I do not think your intro is too long)

One slight problem. The Anglo Dutch actually captured Gibraltar during the Spanish war of succession(1704) not the British. It was later ceded to the British empire 9 years later(1713) not instantly. This is a very slight mistake and doesn't really matter. I would just like to inform those who care.

You forget the native civilization of Tartessos, between the gulf of Cadiz and Sevilla, which was famous between greeks and phoenicians, and maybe the start of the "Atlantis Legend".

After 1910 Portugal was always a Republic. In the video Portugal appears for a brief period as a kingdom around 1950 (there was military dictatorship until 1974 but not only Portugal was still not a kingdom at the time, but also this regime lasted much longer than the "kingdom" in your video). I believe there is no basis for that, and I am sure it was a mistake. Apart from that, I enjoyed this video very much. Thanks!

There's one problem, Portugal was never part of the Spanish Kingdom. The Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain made a Union with the same King, but separate kingdoms. Like nowadays Canada and UK. The 1640 rebellion that ended the union started precisely because the Spanish King wanted to end the Portuguese kingdom has an independent country( and empire). So the map should be in the same color, but with the note "Iberian union", and not "kingdom of Spain" in it. Cheers

your intro is way too long.

Greetings from your German friend to my Spanish and Portuguese Brothers. Love you and the Reconquista.

excellent, as usual.

4:39 this union betwen spain and portugal happened because of morocco

Celtic speakers were probably already in Iberia prior to 700 BC. In fact, that's probably where the first Celtic languages originated

I liked the way you presented it

Extremely interesting accounting of the history of Iberian peninsula.

Between 1580 and 1640 Portugal and Spain remained two different kingdoms. It was a crown union, not a merge.

Love Spain from Serbia! :D

Great video but just a small correction: The municipality of Olivenza was ceded to Spain in 1801 in the treaty of Alcañices and you left it under Portugal up to today

Portugal land of templars ⚔️⚔️⚔️ The frist global empire in history 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

I have to say, with its own errors, I find this video the most accurate I've ever seen in YT when it comes to tell the history of Leon, which is often wrongly depicted in almost every video. Can't really get why Leon is divided into Leon and Extremadura since those two were in the same kingdom for a long time.

5:24 France: just to mess a little bit the borders. Bye!

Thanks for the vacation spots you Iberians have given to us Northern Europeans

This was amazing to watch, even though there is a mistake regarding the Olivenza region. It should be Spanish from 1801 onwards, as it was given to Spain for their victory alongside France in the War of the Oranges against Portugal. For everything else, you earned yourself a subscriber!

3:34 PORTUGAL CARALHOOOOOOO

I love how on the 90% of these type of video there is Roman Empire for many years

At around 2:55, "SETELLA SPLENDIS IN MONTE" begins, a splendid medieval Iberian song with a beautiful lyrics in Latin. Good choice, Ollie Bye! A good tune for me to keep going as I map the 1200s in Age of History II.

Imagine a united Iberia again. So much shared history among the people of this extraordinary peninsula.

Glad to see that the physical map is back! Not glad to see the comments, though.

Hey, where did you get that information about "Country of Barcelona" in 900 d.c and what does "Oso." stands for? Thank you, I appreciate your work.

As a Mexican American, its very interesting that I as well as all Hispanics (and Portugal and Brazil) are a huge genetic mix of different cultures in one. Especially the Latinos, with Native American blood.

July 26, 1139 when Dom Afonso Henriques of Borgonha, then count of Portucale, was acclaimed King of Portugal

Good. Only a correction: Kigdom of Algarve (1249-1800s) corresponded to modern Algarve limits. Not occupying the majority of Southern Alentejo (Lower Alentejo province formally also Kingdom of Portugal), as it is shown in the map, and some territories along the expanded border of both Beiras (Center, from Durius to the Tagos) were only integrated in Portugal in 1297 (agreements with Castile and Leon). "Kingdom of Portugal" (until 1800s) also not confused with Portugal (Portugal and Algaves etc.) as a Crown and Nationwood (including Nationality since Lower Middle Ages - there was no Algarvians, Islanders, Brazilians etc as a nation, but Portuguese Naturals - People, States and provinces (all of them) in the Law - Ordenações). Also the Setubal Peninsula in Portugal (the only South of Tagus at that time and the isolated enclave of Évora) were held against the temporary Almohad reconquest of the south. Also other pormenors in the Spanish today territory, but it was much things and changes. Taking this and so much complexity into acount, as a whole very very good indeed, correct and informative.

1587: 🅱️ig Spain

Thank you so much for giving us full history of iberian peninsula!

西葡的历史真是一言难尽，我们崛起于半岛，我们勇闯大洋，我们一条纬线划分时间，我们的帆舰鳞次栉比，我们的金银堆积如山，我们第一个见证永不落下的太阳，我们执掌全球一切航线。然而在多年之后，我们退守在那个欧洲一隅的半岛上，有如回到五百年多前那帝国大梦开始前的样子，远航结束了，我们回来了，然而世界却变了。。。

4:52 Catalonia: I want to become independent. 4:53 Rest of Spain: Nope.

Great video as always; surprised to see how long Islamic Empires held Iberia. I know it's a difficult one, but I'd really like to see a video on the Andes. Andean Civilization, incredibly, stretches back over 5,000 years, and continues right up until the 16th century. Obviously, with the lack of research and record-keeping, it's difficult to do videos on the Americas, but I've seen the detail in your videos and I imagine you can pull it off.

Très précis, remarquable. Bon travail. Òsca !

The music is Llibre Vernell-Stella Splendens

You're just too good at mapping. xD

One good thing you did with your map. Recognizing that Olivença is portuguese! Like for this one.

1:45 Visigoths have left the game

Great video. Congrats! However, it should be corrected (a) the Greek colonies were settled as well in the south of Iberia and (b) Aragonese Kingdom (different than Aragonese Crown) was independent from the frankish power before 1257.

I was in Murcia a month ago, a beautiful place. :)

Religious zealously in the comments is very saddening. Its history. If you want to discuss this stuff, discuss it somewhere else, not on a video literally meant to just show people what happened territorially in the past.

There's a small mistake, you show Olivenza as part of Portugal up to nowadays. Although Spain recognized that territory as portuguese in the XIX century it never effectively returned it to Portugal.

You show how Olivenza becomes Spanish in the early 19th century, but then goes back to Portugal. It never went back. Olivenza is Spanish since then. This is not a nationalist statement, nor anything to annoy Portuguese people, is just reality. The same reality that makes Gibraltar British.