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

The Iberian Peninsula has had one of the most tumultuous and volatile histories of any region in Europe and artefacts from that period can be seen in the architectural language and even in the

people

who inhabit the countries of today, the area was the zero of the largest and most successful large-scale invasion of the European continent by North African forces and this conquest in seven hundred years of occupation was possibly the second most influential event to impact the European Mediterranean region after the rise of the Roman Empire and the various invasions and migrations on the European continent.

The Iberian countries

have

had a great impact on the countries of Spain and Portugal and in turn

have

had an even greater impact on many reasons in the world that the two have invaded and colonized, including two entire continents, so It is important to learn about the roots of the Spanish and Portuguese

people

. After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire around the year 400 AD. C. a large power vacuum arose in the ancient Roman provinces of Iberia that was soon filled by groups such as the Visigoths and the Germanic Vandals who also conquered parts of North Africa.

Furthermore, various European groups from all over Europe had been mixing and interacting in the Iberian Peninsula for about 300 years until one of the greatest changes in European demographics began with the rising tide of Islamic expansion as a reference to how quickly the that the Islamic faith spread. After its birth in Arabia in 610 AD, the Umayyad Caliphate, the largest of the Islamic empires, would take only one hundred years to completely sweep away the Iberian Peninsula, the last time continental Europe had been invaded by Africans, the Wars being Punicas where the Empire was founded. of Carthage attempted to conquer the Roman Republic, the Iberian Moors remained in the region for the next seven hundred years and, despite their name, were not an ethnically homogeneous group, as they were made up of various Muslim groups from across the Middle East in the North Africa, most of The invading Moorish forces were composed of native North African converts to Islam, like the many super peoples, while a smaller number were Egyptian Arabs or other Semitics, for the most part they were united in the use of the Arabic language and in adherence to Islam.

In addition to its goal of pushing Islam into the heart of Europe and an attempt to possibly convert the entire continent, its seemingly unstoppable expansion finally came to a halt in 732 AD. at the Battle of Tours, which took place just 150 miles from the city of Paris, so it is quite possible that if this battle had been lost, the Muslim forces would have converted most of the population of southern France to another Muslim nation, although the Moors of North Africa had a very large impact on the genetics of the Iberian Peninsula. It did not change it completely and most of the pre-invasion Latin speaking Christian groups remained in the occupied area and some converted to Islam to better integrate into society, while others retained their Christian and Latin heritage in the following 700s. years.

The italic Iberian and Germanic peoples of the Middle East merged into a new gene pool in the Iberian Peninsula, one of the largest genetic changes of any European region. The various European kingdoms on the periphery of the region put aside their differences to eventually begin their slow march southward. recovering their Iberian homeland the last year of Arab presence in 1492 coincided with the same year that Christopher Columbus, who by the way was Italian, not Spanish, sailed for the first time to the American continents, which began the new wave of European exploration, discovery and imperialism that we mentioned.

In the last video, similar to the situation of the original Iberian people, the Moorish population was not completely expelled from Spain and Portugal, but many were allowed to stay if they converted to Catholicism and integrated with the emerging Spanish population, For this reason the populations of Spain Portugal. Today they have overwhelmingly Western European DNA; However, on average, the Spanish and Portuguese have between two and ten percent North African admixture and those from the North have virtually no admixture, but this increases greatly the further south you travel on the peninsula, many Iberians They look like other years and look good. many others clearly have a bit more of a non-European mix, but this does not make them any less European than other groups on the continent.

The Iberian Peninsula today contains approximately 60 million people and is divided into countries independent of Spain, which dominates both lands. area and population Portugal, which is a little smaller but still very influential, and Dora, on the border with France, one of the few remaining microstates in Europe, and you, larger, which is a tiny but monumentally important territory that It actually still belongs to the UK, it's pretty universal. Spanish and Portuguese are known to be Latin-based languages, meaning that they descend from the ancient Latin language originally spoken in the Italian province of the Roman Empire, and other members of the Romance family are

modern

Italian, French, and Romanian.

However, linguistic and ethnic boundaries. do not exactly correlate with

modern

political lines on the western coast of Spain is the region of Galacia, where the majority of the nearly 3 million residents speak Galician, a Romance language more closely related to Portuguese than to Spanish, and Many wingless classify it as a Portuguese dialect rather than a separate language, the Spanish language can be quite confusing at times as it has many dialects in both Spain and Latin America, with the differences between Latin American and European Spanish being similar to the differences between English and known American and British Spanish.

Like Spanish, not all people in Spain speak Spanish, although there are many important Romance languages ​​that are originally native to the country, with Austrian in the

north

west corner near Galicia and Aragon along the border with France, although comparatively very few people still speak them as a first language, the language and the largest minority people in Iberia today would have to be the Catalans, who despite the best efforts of the Spanish government still largely speak their original Catalan and Valencian dialects and They have a strong sense of nationalism having held many independence rallies in recent years. The Catalans inhabit the eastern coast of the peninsula compared to that of the Portuguese and Galicians, as well as the Blair Islands and a very small enclave on the Italian island of Sardinia, the only non-cursive language native to the peninsula would be through the Basques. and interestingly, no one really knows where they came from, although several theories indicate a positive connection with Celtic languages ​​or perhaps even a pre-Indo-European ethnic group and if you thought the Catalan people really wanted independence, the Basques are on a completely different level. different on a tangent, although very little is known about this, it might surprise some people to learn that a branch of the Italicized Romance language family was once widely spoken in the Maghreb of North Africa or the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

This language was probably a late form of Latin. of the Roman Empire, which is probably the closest to the Portuguese or Spanish or perhaps Sardinian neighbors, but unfortunately, after the Islamic expansion around 700 AD. C., all traces of these romantic-speaking peoples were erased from the face of the continent and were assimilated by the invading Arab wave. Had it not been for this victorious assimilation, it is very likely that this African Latin would have evolved into a modern Romance language and perhaps the people of the Maghreb would be more similar in culture to Western European groups such as the French Spanish or the Italians.

The Canary Islands are a region in Spain that has a slightly different genetic history to the rest of the country, which should be glaringly obvious when you consider its position less than a hundred miles off the coast of Africa and almost eight times that distance from Spain. continental, although The two million inhabitants of the Canary Islands today are considered an integral part of Spain. The original inhabitants of the island were of North African Berber origin, known as Gotchas, who had inhabited the islands for more than 2,000 years before the arrival of the Spanish due to their isolation.

From the rest of North Africa, the Go Inch people were still animistic compared to neighboring Muslim Morocco and the Spanish were able to conquer the islands fairly quickly and Spanish settlers from mainland Europe soon began arriving in large numbers and it was not long before that the original settlers The People of God were completely assimilated into Spanish culture. Modern Canarians today are probably the most sworn Spaniards. Ethnic Canaries have between 10 and 40% native North African admixture. Major macaroni show island chains like Madeira and the Azores actually didn't have them. a native population when Portugal discovered them, as they were a little further from the African coast and it was extremely common for the Portuguese and Spanish from this region to emigrate to the American continent.

The conquest and subjugation of Iberia by Islamic Muslim forces was a decisive event in Portuguese Spanish history had a great effect on the linguistic culture and even the genetics of modern Spaniards and Portuguese and, as such, had a great effect on the dozens of countries conquered by the United States, as well as in Latin America and other regions of the planet and for this reason it is very relevant to hundreds of millions of people with some degree of Hispanic ancestry, the Reconquista was truly an impressive feat and, according to look, it was a very bright moment in European history or a sad chapter in Either way, Islamic history, the racial composition and the attitude of the Spanish and Portuguese were forever altered by their history and that makes them one of the most interesting ethnic groups in Europe.

Be sure to let me know your thoughts on the Spanish and Portuguese and the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula as always Mason thanks for watching everyone. See you next time. Hey guys, quick announcement. I have made a second channel called Mason, the man, yes, creative name I know, but all the channels we are going to Talk about demographics in geography and a slightly less professional environment would make some live streams or podcasts feel free to subscribe and the first video will probably come out that day. We will be talking about the US Census and how we could improve again, thanks for watching, everyone had a good time.