The Golden One - September 28, 2019


The Visigoths and the Reconquista

Topics
Reconquista and Visigothic Kingdom
Hosted by
Marcus Follin
Mentioned
Reconquista Charles Martel Manzanares Berbers Gaul
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5 minutes

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108.7

Word count

616

Sentence count

41

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A brief introduction to the Reconquista and the history of the Iberian Peninsula. A few hundred years before the Spanish conquests, the Visigoths, a Germanic tribe who along with other tribes during the migration era, carved out kingdoms from the crumbling Western Roman Empire, fought on the same side against Attila the Hun in one of the most pivotal battles in world history, the Battle of the Catalonian Plains.

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00:00:00.000 Greetings and salutations from
00:00:29.800 Spain. I am in Manzanares a bit north of Madrid and I thought to take this opportunity to
00:00:36.920 give a brief introduction to the Reconquista because it's one of the most inspiring events
00:00:43.080 in history in my humble opinion. So basically in order to understand the Reconquista we have to go
00:00:49.000 back a few hundred years before it began to see the situation in the Iberian Peninsula.
00:00:55.560 And even before that we have to discuss the Visigoths, a Germanic tribe who along with other
00:01:01.720 tribes during the migration era carved out kingdoms from the crumbling western Roman Empire. That being 0.97
00:01:08.840 said it's important to point out that the Visigoths and the Romans fought on the same side in one of
00:01:13.880 the most pivotal battles in world history, the Battle of the Catalonian Plains.
00:01:19.000 Attila the Hun has begun storming through Gaul, sacking numerous towns. Fearing an attack on
00:01:29.560 northern Italy, magister militant Flavius Aesius has mustered an army in an effort to resist the
00:01:35.560 Hunnic advance. The Romans have found an unlikely ally in the form of Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths. 0.85
00:01:45.480 Intercepting Attila on the Catalonian Plains, the two sides meet in battle.
00:01:50.600 The battle was won by the Roman and Visigothic forces and soon afterwards the Visigoths began to 1.00
00:01:58.920 take over formerly western Roman territories in France and Spain
00:02:03.240 and eventually they had conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula.
00:02:11.400 Unfortunately, the Visigothic Kingdom couldn't last because the 1.00
00:02:16.200 ever-expanding Muslims came into the European scene during the 700s. They got stopped at Tours by
00:02:24.440 Charles Martel in 732 but they managed to conquer most of Spain, most of Iberia.
00:02:31.960 However, there was one last area in Spain that remained unoccupied in Asturias.
00:02:40.200 In 722, the Visigothic nobleman Pelagius won a decisive battle, the Battle of Covadonga against the
00:02:48.440 Muslim invaders. That was seen as the beginning of the Reconquista and he is seen as the founder of
00:02:54.840 the Kingdom of Asturias.
00:02:56.280 So even though it took about 800 years for the Reconquista to be complete,
00:03:06.200 the majority of land gains were won during the central part of the Middle Ages. As seen on this map,
00:03:13.320 the absolute majority of the Iberian Peninsula was reconquered by the year 1270.
00:03:20.920 And then Granada in the south, which is the deep purple in this map, held out the longest.
00:03:27.080 The Reconquista began almost immediately after the Muslims got stopped in northern Spain. And even 0.99
00:03:35.160 though it was a conflict between European Christians versus Muslim Arabs and Berbers,
00:03:40.840 the conflict was not black and white. There was plenty of infighting between both the Christian
00:03:46.440 sides and the Muslim side. So during the Middle Ages, the general trend was that the Christian kingdoms
00:03:54.120 took more and more lands back from the Muslims, but there was some setbacks as well. And again, 0.97
00:04:01.480 there was fighting between the various Christian kingdoms because they obviously wanted a larger
00:04:07.480 slice of the cake, the geographical cake, so to speak. And the same thing with the Muslims, 1.00
00:04:13.640 they also fought for power in the south.
00:04:43.960 Then of course, after the Spanish, the Iberian Peninsula was united, or at least Spain was united
00:04:50.440 completely, a golden era for Spain awaited with new territories to conquer in the new world.
00:04:58.600 And that will have to be a video for another time. I thank you kindly for watching and wish you a great day ahead.
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