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Eurogenes K13: North_Dutch + Spanish_Murcia + West_Scottish + West_Scottish @ 4.395628
G25 Ancient + Modern: Distance: 3.0211% / 0.03021062
48.2 VK2020_England_Dorset_VA
19.0 VK2020_Isle_Of_Man_VA
16.2 Spanish_Pais_Vasco
10.0 French_Paris
6.6 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
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What about the frequency of French DNA in North Africans?
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But that map is from a different time from Al-Andalus when the caliphate of Cordoba ended.
For me there are two clear stages in Al-Andalus.
1st Stage from the Dependent Emirate until the end of the Caliphate, which was a great time of prosperity and development thanks to the tolerance of the Islamic leaders with other religions.
This stage is characterized by a cultural and linguistic Arabization of the Hispanic-Romans and the Hispanic-Goths.
Voluntary Arabization because Arabic in these years was a vehicular language with the rest of the Mediterranean and therefore with wealth, commerce and culture.
Arabic in these years would work like English today.
Everyone wanted to know Arabic, and Arabic fashion & culture was the trend.
However, the Arab and Berber racial contribution was minimal. The reason ?, North Africa was also prosperous and rich, there was no need to emigrate to the peninsula except for activities such as those already mentioned, commerce or culture.
2nd Stage, disintegration of the Caliphate and the invasion of the Almoravids and Almohads fanatics. which is the map that you have put.
This stage will be the one that will form in the Castilians the "romantic" vision of The Reconquista.
In a way, The Reconquista doesn't really start with Don Pelayo, but with the disappearance of the Caliphate.
In the first stage, thanks to the tolerance of the Islamic communities with the Christians, they never saw the need to convert to Islam, their faith was more powerful than the fiscal savings that this supposed.
However, the intolerance of almoravides and Almohads will made a persecution of Christians and forced conversions.
This will made a massive emigration of Iberian Christians from the territories of Al-Andalus to the territories of the Christian Kingdoms.
These Christians will told their tragedy to everyone, and will join the troops of the Christian Kingdoms.
This contribution will be essential for La Reconquista, because from that moment on, it will no longer be a battle between Christian Iberians against Muslim Iberians, but rather that of Christian Iberians against Muslim Berbers.
In fact, today there is still a Christian Medieval Order that testifies to these events.
The Order of the Mozarabic Knights of Toledo.
http://www.mozarabesdetoledo.es/cmt_constituciones.htm
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Most of what you said here is correct but you shouldn't underestimate the berber presence during the umayyad caliphate (most of their soldiers were north africans especially in the first centuries and there are plenty of testimonials of the elite giving lands to berber tribes especially in the north)
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