O Começo da Reconquista: Os Visigodos que Fugiram para o Norte

In 711, the Umayyad Caliphate conquered almost the entire Iberian Peninsula in less than three years. Toledo fell. Seville fell. The Visigothic kingdom disintegrated within months. But there was one territory that the Muslim armies decided not to contest: a cold, difficult-to-access, and sparsely populated mountain range in the far north of the Peninsula. That's where it all began again. In this video, we tell the story of those who did not surrender—Visigothic nobles, bishops with relics of their saints, and nameless populations in history who fled to Asturias and unknowingly created the conditions that made Portugal possible. The story of the Reconquista does not begin in 1249, when the Algarve was conquered. It begins here, in the Cantabrian Mountains, with a handful of fugitives who decided there was nowhere else to run. This is the second video in the series about the Visigoths. If you haven't seen the first one yet — 711 AD: The Betrayal that Delivered Iberia to the Moors — the link is here: [   • 711 d.C.: A Traição que Entregou a Ibéria ...  ] HISTORICAL SOURCES USED: — Albeldense Chronicle (c. 881) — Chronicle of Alfonso III (c. 883–910), Ad Sebastianum version — ​​Ibn Hayyan, Al-Muqtabis (9th century) — Roger Collins, Visigothic Spain 409–711 (Blackwell, 2004) — Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Orígenes del Reino de Asturias (1972) — Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity 400–1000 (Macmillan, 1983) #Reconquista #Visigoths #HistoryOfPortugal #EmpiresAndLegends #MedievalHistory #MedievalIberia #Covadonga #Pelagius #PortugueseHistory #MedievalHistory #Asturias #711AD #HistoryOfEurope #ChalifatUmayyad #PortugalHistory Grave Matters by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Land on the Golden Gate by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/stuntisland/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Two by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/