Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "What happened with the Muslim Majority of Spain?" video.

  1.  @antoniorangel8277  Basks have a historical tendency to not be conquered by anybody. Indeed, the rule of the Visigoths over the basks whas not as firm as over the rest of their Kingdom. It is said that in SOME places of the Baskland they also never got to see a roman tax-collector law enforcer, or soldier (althoug this was probably more to beeing places so poor and so isolated, that simply nobody cared enough to make the effort.....)
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  2. The islamic method to convert people was in fact insidous and cruel: THEY TAXED NOT-ISLAMIC PEOPLE. It`s a win-win. Either you get money, or you get a new islamic fellow......
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  3. The "battle of Covadonga" is a fake. It is based on a chronicle hunderts or more years away from the events depicted by a writer trying to trace the ascendence of the (then) actuall King of Asturias from a noble called "Pelagious" whose right to reign (and so that of his descendants) was sanctioned by a divine intervention in this mithycal batlle. Pure propaganda. Islamic chronicles, written by the time of the suposed battle ( although obviously biased) mention some thoug resistance to islamic tax-collectors, and how the rebels seeked refugee in mountains and deep valleys, easy to defend, from where they harrased the troops send to defeat them, till they had no other option than to retreat. This scenario (a desperate a seemingly lost guerrilla-warfare againts an overhelmig and aparently invincible invasion simply refusing to surrender against all odds) is, in my opinion, much more epic (and much more likely to have happened) that some battle nobody mentioned ever, till it was politically convinient, hunderts of years later. Also, the last "Visigoth King" (or the last pretender) fought till 719-720, when he died campaining against the invasion, and his visigothic stronghold of Narbona was conquered, all the men killed, and the woman and children enslaved. Some other strongholds even hold out till 725 (Carcasone for example) guided by local chieftans ending FOURTEEN YEARS of campain, where, along with some peacfull pacts, there were also some fierce resistance in mayor cities, that sufered the same fate of Narbona ( also. by then, the local islamic governor of Asturias had already been expelled and never returned, making this territory effectively the first one to recover its independence from islamic rule even before the conquest of the rest of the Kingdom was fully achieved......) Indeed, the resistance was so fierce, that around 720, the islamic goverment in Hispania thought about just leaving the territory, because the conquest was to expensive to make and to keep, and numbers simply didn´t fit..... No need to belive in mithycal battles. The resistance against the conquest was fierce and bloody, even epic, althoug sadly disorganized
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