Reconquista is fake

>Historians point out that this term was never used during that period
>They claim this term gives a distorted and anachronic vision of history.
>It was supposedly used after the fact as political propaganda, when Spain in fact didn't exist as a nation in 1492 when the last muslim city was captured by the christians.
>The reality is that the Iberian peninsula was never united politically again after 711 when the muslims invaded. The old Hispania was the entire peninsula. Spain is not that.
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who gives a shit lmao

I thought it was reconquista as in reconquest in the name of christianity

I thought it was public knowledge that reconquista was the name used by historians afterwards and chauvinists.

the christian kingdoms fought each other, they didnt just fight muslims
they weren't really united allied to fight the moors, thats a modern misconception

The reconquest was guided by God

They didn't give a crap about christianity.
The quintessential reconquista hero, el Cid, got exiled from Castille because he basically accused the king of murdering his brother to get the kingdom, then he went on to work as a mercenary for the moorish king of Zaragoza, defending it against christians, mostly. Then when the king who had exiled him laid siege to the city they reconciled. Then he got expeled again because he basically decided not to help the king in a battle against north-african invaders. Then he decidade to basically invade the levante region and the moorish kingdoms there allied with the christians count of Barcelona to stop him, el Cid won. He became the baddest motherfucker in the east of Spain and with his buddy the arab king of zaragoza he raided Castille (the kingdom that had exiled 2 times, and where he was from btw).
Then he conquered Valencia and had his personal kingdom. There he actually allied with christians, the count of barcelona he had defeated earlier, but only because the north-african invaders he was supposed to fight before were invading the peninsula hard and didn't want to los his new possesions and status.
Another example of this is the kingdom of Navarra and the Banu Qasi, the Banu Qasi were hispano-romans who converted to islam and formed an independent province in the south of navarra and zaragoza. The kingdom of navarra was the christian kingdom in northern navarra. The first king of Navarra, Iñigo Arista was the half brother of the Banu Qasi ruler Musa ibn Musa.
So basically nobody really gave a crap about religion, especially when the caliphate imploded.

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So I'm a moor?

>canadian
No, you're a dirty angloid

Also, your article reads like it was written by a Jew.

I have Iberian antecessors.

This is common knowledge. The reconquista was and is used by españolazos to ultimately kill the national identities of Iberia in favour of fake country.
The reason the moors stayed in Iberia for 700 years was simply because the Iberians of the north did not consider the south to be part of their nation, making them feel nothing towards those muslims.

the OP is a moroccan

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No.

How do you know all this?
Are there books about this time period that you recommend?

And since when does unity is necessary for a christian reconquest?

It was a reconquest for Christendom. Neither of the Christian kingdoms existed before the muslim invasions, but the Christian population did exist since Roman times.

The reconquista was in the name of Christians, not the kingdoms that were built on top of that.

>The reconquista was and is used by españolazos to ultimately kill the national identities of Iberia in favour of fake country.
I don't see how anybody can defend the unity of spain using a series of medieval military religious conflicts that lasted for centuries but there's plenty of retards so it may be possible.
>The reason the moors stayed in Iberia for 700 years was simply because the Iberians of the north did not consider the south to be part of their nation, making them feel nothing towards those muslims.
The concept of nationality did not exist back then and if the chirstian kingdoms didn't take it all at once it's because they were too weak to do so and only managed to push in times of division of the muslims such as the taifa periods or when they all coordinated (which was rare because they had their own conflics among themselves). The motivation for the attacks was both religious (zealous kings such as James I) and political (aquire new land), they didn't care if it was north, south, east or west.

Of course the concept of nationality existed back then, what kind of meme is this that nationality is a modern invention? People gather around of people that look and act and speak like them and stay away from those that don't.

Nationalism existed since forever. The middle ages wasn't different, made really evident on the tensions between latin speakers and germanic speakers of the empire of Charlemagne.

El Cantar de Mio Cid in Spain is like the chanson de Roland. But instead offers a very idealized image of the man.
I knew he served under the arab king of zaragoza and fought the catalonians because it is mentioned in the romance and because of Age of Empires. Then checked wikipedia and read about a bit more.
Idk any books, I guess there is something good out there but I learnt it mostly from high school and dicking around the internet.

Spain campaign was so shit.
yeah, Saladin 2.0, that's exactly what I wanted in my Spanish playthrough.

idk played them for the last time when i was like 6 and only remember the BASED CID one.

Nationality didn't exist? Bonkers statement.
The Christian kingdoms had no interest in the south, it wasn't until Castilla realized her own less than desirable geographical position that imperialism was born, but the nation of Castilla was nationalistic from the beginning.

In the modern way of seeing it it is. If you want to call liking people who are similar to you and disliking being ruled by foreigners nationalism then it existed.

The idea of nation-state wasn't even formalised until the end of the thirty years war and the conquests against the muslims happened on a regular basis and were carried out by all the christian kingdoms. The "castillian nation" was a bunch of nobles and a king ruling over peasants as was any other medieval state.

>as was any medieval state
Indeed, nationalistic like any other kingdom.
>regular basis
Actual lie. It took 700 years to conquer the whole of Iberia precisely because nobody cared to actually conquer anything.

>Actual lie. It took 700 years to conquer the whole of Iberia precisely because nobody cared to actually conquer anything.
Lmao just look at OP's map you fucking idiot

There was more to Medieval Europe than just Nobles and Peasants

Ok, OP's map is shit I notice, here a better one
Yeah, priests and craftsmen

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were moors ever expelled from spain then? or just absorbed into population?

Intitially they remained since workforce was needed in the conquered territories but they were expelled in the 1600s for colaborating with the north african pirates and revolting.

The reconquista was real from the 8th century it just wasn't a political reality.