The End of the Reconquista

[Cernunnos]

Suebis>>>>Visigoths

[Cristiano viejo]

Suebis>>>>Visigoths

Both were retard Germanic people but no way, Visigoths dominated and defeated suebis very hard.

Carthagians/Phoneciains>>>>Moors

obvious.

[Avicii86]

Muslims are the ultimate enemies of us Europeans and Iberians did their best to protect the rest of western europe from this bullshit religion. The same applies to other southern europeans (especially greeks and italians).

Greeks and Italians didnt put up much of a fight unfortunately

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Mudéjar Song From Spain - Romance de Granada, paseábase el rey moro

Paseabase el rey moro" is a ballad that Perez de Hita (1544-1619)
The Moorish king was strolling Through the city of Granada Letters came Saying that Alhama had been taken ¡Ay de mi Alhama!
He cast the letters into the fire And killed the messenger He ordered the trumpets to be played His trumpets of silver ¡Ay de mi Alhama!
Friends, you must know of a new misfortune Ferocious Christians have seized Alhama ¡Ay de mi Alhama!
A wise man of law spoke A mand of long, white beard You got what you were due, good king Good king, you got what you were due ¡Ay de mi Alhama!
You killed the bencerrajes who were the best of Granada You chose the turncoats of famed Córdoba ¡Ay de mi Alhama!
For that, king, you deserve a double-edged sorrow You lose, and you lose your kingdom and here is lost Granada ¡Ay de mi Alhama!

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Entrada de Los Reyes en Granada · Joaquín Díaz & Javier Coble · Javier Coble Romances de la Reina Isabel ℗ 2004 Fundación Centro Etnográfico Joaquín Díaz Released on: 2012-03-09 Producer: Fundación Centro Etnográfico Joaquín Díaz Composer: Joaquín Díaz Lyricist: Joaquín Díaz Music Publisher: Fundación Centro Etnográfico Joaquín Díaz

[Damião de Góis]

While going through the list of battles Portugal was involved in, i noticed something very curious:





How Portugal would have battles with Castille or Leon, and shortly after both would join forces against the moors like it was nothing. This was really driving out the common enemy while settling territory among themselves.

[Cristiano viejo]

While going through the list of battles Portugal was involved in, i noticed something very curious:





How Portugal would have battles with Castille or Leon, and shortly after both would join forces against the moors like it was nothing. This was really driving out the common enemy while settling territory among themselves.

Typical fight between brothers that join forces when a strange faces one of these brothers.
Happened often. In the battle of las Navas de toolosa the leonese King refused to participate because he was angry at that moment with th king of Castilla, but allowed that any leonese knight did... and so there were several hundred leonese Knights fighting the moors...

[Tietar]

Originally the queen in chess was "the vizier or adjunt", the usual guy that every boss needs to have at his side to do the dirty work, usually a stupid ass lick. It was a piece with very limited movement that only one square could be moved diagonally, and therefore useless. The pathetic piece was replaced by a queen due to Isabel's power, becoming the most powerful on the board



All this changed with Isabella the Catholic’s dramatic intervention in the siege of Baza, in 1489, seven years into her ten-year war of reconquest of the Muslim Kingdom of Granada. Her husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon, was one of the best generals of his time and he had excellent generals helping him in this siege, but it all seemed “a bridge too far.” The city was too powerful, defended by a strong, 20,000-man garrison, and well provisioned to withstand the longest siege. The Catholic troops and artillery seemed woefully disproportional to the task and after six months of siege warfare, the King called his generals to a council of war, and they recommended lifting the siege and withdrawing. Before striking camp, however, Ferdinand sent a messenger to Isabella who was then at Jaen, 90 miles away. She sent back word that a retreat would demoralize all Spain. They should continue the siege and she would go herself to their assistance.

The Queen’s arrival at the camp sent the Crusaders into transports of joy and enthusiasm, while inside Baza, the Muslim garrison despaired, seeing in her arrival the fatal seal of impending doom. Three weeks later they surrendered and were given all the honors of war.

As the news of Baza’s fall was carried everywhere, the Crusaders’ enthusiasm at Isabella’s arrival at their camp reverberated throughout Spain, and among the manifestations of joy, the rules of chess were changed, with the Queen becoming a most powerful piece, sweeping and majestic in her moves. A few years later, Luis Ramírez de Lucena enshrined the new rules in Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez, the oldest printed book on chess we have today, and the new rules were here to stay.

When we play chess, perhaps while enjoying a piece of chess pie, we should remember Isabella the Catholic, the greatest Queen Spain ever had, and how her Crusading zeal 500 years ago changed this ancient game forever.


https://nobility.org/2014/12/18/isab...ange-to-chess/

[Egyptian]

Egypt is probably the strongest army in Mediterranean area, let's make a vice versa reconquista.

[gixajo]

Egypt is probably the strongest army in Mediterranean area, let's make a vice versa reconquista.

You have not been able to beat Israel by joining several Muslim countries and you intend to invade a European country?

Where do you think you get weapons and war technology?