#Visgoths

[ancientorigins]

Researchers have unveiled the legacy of a sword dubbed ‘Excalibur’ found in Valencia, tracing its path from Visigoth hands to the Umayyad Caliphate's reign. The captivating saga of a historic sword reshapes our understanding of Islamic influence in medieval Spain.

[ego-sum-arbor]

Mad that I just recently confirmed that Stephen’s bathtub DOES have a canonical backstory that invalidates all the research I’ve already done!

[sleepingfancies]

funny as hell to me that antiquity rome had a term for what is essentially toxic masculinity and it fucked them back then too. history repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats

[f0xd13-blog]

I've read it somewhere that cataluna also got colonized pffffff what do you mean also got colonized? The natives were celt and that part got influenced by phoenicians who emigrated there for some reason then it got sacked by visigoths then ancient rome colonized europe entirely and then the moors who I think was only white people that were living in north africa probably even turks but not the native ones or visgoths with turbans which makes sense since they were sacking places and they could have went to turkey and then went around the middle east and then north of africa, so yeah they were white people with arabic culture and then catholics expelled all the muslims and jews so all that culture went back to their native land and in the end the people that stayed in here are descendants of all of those societies so how in the hell are they considered any different from the rest of spain? Portugal was the only place in the peninsula that survived spanish homogenization althought our royals were always married with spanish royals for them to maintain control of our country... so if there's people that got the end of the stick it is the portuguese.

[andreas-hutman]

Visgoth warriors

[saniahamza-blog]

Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History

Yves here. It may well be that the circumstances where nonviolent protest can succeed are more limited than Gandhi and Martin Luther King fans would have you believe. Getting a ruling elite to cede significant power historically does seem to require violence. Ask the Visgoths in 476 AD, who I understand stormed Rome after seeking the same status as Roman citizens following many years of doing…

[theodosianwomensuggestions]

Convince your new hot barbarian husband that sacking Rome is bad and that he should work alongside Rome instead.

- Galla Placidia 

[jewishvirtuallibrary-blog]

Tunisian Jewish people pose near the synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia; 2005. x

Tunisian Jewish people are said to have been in Tunisia since before the destruction of the First Temple, having first come there as merchants.  Their numbers were greatly increased after the Romans expelled a large portion of the Jewish population of Judea to North Africa.  The number of Jewish people in Tunis was deemed too much for local churches there, who felt it necessary to enact restrictive measures on the Jewish population there after 429 B.C.E.  In the seventh century, Sephardi Jewish people escaping forcible conversions to Christianity by the Visigoth King Sisebut fled to Tunisia and joined the sizable Jewish community there.  Following Tunisian independence in the 1950′s, Tunisia’s National Jewish Council was dissolved and many historic Jewish buildings were seized by the government and destroyed.  Many Jewish people fled during this period .  In 1948, Tunisia’s Jewish population was estimated at 105,000 people.  Today, it is under 2,000 - most of whom live on the island of Djerba.

[misfit-among-the-angels]

365 days of music challenge - Day 351 - Favorite song by a band/artist that begins with the letter V

[peonycats]

“But what luck I have to call a man like you my son. It is an honor you cannot understand. One day you will have children and if you have just one who is as dear as you are to me, you will understand how blessed my life has been.”

(from left to right, top to bottom: al-andalus/umayyad, spain, portugal, bby cuba, spain)

historical footnotes (and a bonus comic!):

obligatory disclaimer that spanish colonization of Cuba and other places was Bad, to put it lightly- just because i portray two nations having a relationship analogous to family does not mean the two have good or even healthy relations

al-Andalus was the name of the Iberian Peninsula while it was under Muslim rule. The Umayyad Conquest of Spain took place in the 710s AD, and succeeded largely due to the fragmented nature Iberia and Visgothic rule, who had taken control after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Under Caliphate of Cordoba, al-Andalus was a cosmopolitan center of learning and culture, with advancements in trigonometry, astronomy, medicine, and art. Muslim rule in Iberia eventually fell to the rising Christian kingdoms in the Reconquista, which concluded with fall of the Emirate of Granada in 1492, the same year Columbus made that fateful landing in Hispaniola.

(technically, Spain and portugal have other iberian sibs at this time (and continue to do so!) but just imagine that they’re off playing while port decided to stay to see tonio’s weird music shenanigans)

tried really hard to research to make the clothes historically accurate, but my research wasn’t really satisfactory, so i can’t attest to how accurate they are, especially the first part! and i will be the first to admit that I made portugal’s coat periwinkle blue mostly because i thought it looked nice lol

(…..also spain’s breeches would most certainly not be skin tight but i claim artistic liberty on that one) 

In the first panel, Spain is playing an oud, which is a short necked, pear shaped lute. It was brought to Iberia in the Ummayyad conquest, and fused with the previous lute tradition under the Romans. There have been many depictions of musicians playing the oud throughout Umayyad Spain, which would go onto influence European music traditions, and it continues to be a popular instrument in the Middle East, Turkey, and Iran! 

(now that i’m looking at it, this oud must’ve been custom made for spain because it’s rather small for compared to their typical size LMAO)

In the second panel, Spain is playing a vihuela, which is 15th century string instrument that is shaped like a guitar, but tuned like a lute. It was brought over to the New World and is often used in Mexican mariachi bands!

The quote is technically a wee bit off base because it implies that Cuba was Spain’s fave which…… wasn’t really the case until spain lost his other colonies in the Latin American wars for independence WHEEZE

BONUS:

rest in piss tonio

[thelasttemplar]

~Sinclair Family History~

Clovis I, grandson to Merovee was the most influential and most powerful of all the Merovingians kings. Hes the one who forged an alliance with the Catholic church in 486, thus converting the Franks to Roman Catholicism. This did two things: First, It helped The church spread its influence throughout France allowing Rome to establish her undisputed supremacy in western Europe, an authority that would go unchallenged for a thousand years. Second, It gave the anointed royal blood line of the Merovingians power but since The church officially Recognized Clovis as king. The Church bound itself not only to Clovis but all his successors, a bloodline that would forever link them to the thrown of France.

When Clovis died in 511 the territories were divided in customary fashion and turned over to his four sons. As time went by territories spread and the Merovingian influenced lessened. No more evident that when Dagobert II, grandson to Clovis was kidnapped as an infant. Upon his Fathers death in 656 extravagant attempts were made preclude his inheritance from the throne. His captures did not kill him like originally believed, he was exiled in Ireland where he grew to man hood only to return to France when he married his second wife, Gizelle of Razes. Gizelle was the daughter of the count of Razes and niece ti the King of the Visgoths. In other words the Merovingian Bloodline was now allied to the royal bloodline of the Visgoths. Herein lay the seeds of embryonic empire that united much of France, spreading from the Pyrenees to the Ardennes. This also put this unified empire directly under Roman Rule.

Dagobert II and Gizelle were Married at her official residence at Rennes-le-Chateau. There they remained until they gave birth to Sisgisbert IV in 674 thus continuing the bloodline. This line would remain in the south of France all the way up until the uprising Between the Catholic Church and the Templar Order. This was important because it was here at Rennes-le-Chateau where the line of the Merovingians and the Royal Family of the St. Clairs united when Sisgisbert VI married into the Royal House of Lorraine. Of course the 'Ordre de Sion' knew this and kept this a secret not wanting the Church to know there was a link between the Templar Knights and the Royal Bloodline of The Merovingians.

When the Templars were hunted down in the 1307 this small group of templars Still living at Rennes-le-Chateau were able to escape with the help of Bertrand de Blanchefort and his knights From Bezu. They left the south of France with precious cargo in tow. In order to protect the bloodline a baby was taken on the long journey to Scotland. This infant was Henry St. Clair who would change it to Sinclair at a later time to protect his ancestors from further persecution. Henry's family and the Templar legacy would Flourish in Scotland and with the help of the 'Order de Sion' He learned of his family linage and the secrets he needed to protect.

It was long said that the Templars were expert navigators and explorers. with a small navy at their disposal Henry's grandson William had been exploring the old viking routs of the north Atlantic form some time looking for a new place to settle. It was now their position to Keep in secret. As far as anyone knew the Order of the Knights Templar died back in Europe. The only way to protect the Bloodline and its secrets was to pretend it didn't exist. So when the Sincair's Sailed for the new world, led by Henry I, they would leave their past in Scotland. They would only exist in secret, and in history, no further family lineage would be recorded, no records of their travel would be made. They would only exist through the whispers of secret societies that would continue through time.

Henry Sinclair I landed in what is now modern day Nova Scotia in 1394 some one hundred years before Columbus supposedly discovered the americas. The only evidence of this was left as stone markers that were used to mark their geography. These markers were found as far south as what would now be considered Maine. The Sincair's settled in this land after finally migrating into the American colonies settling in New England where they would remain until present day. The Sinclair bloodline is survived only by the last known member, a man named Haytham Sinclair, an antiquities dealer who lives on the outskirts of Boston.

[weepingwitch]

you've heard of visgoth, now consider

...vimgoth

[heavymetalalbumart]

Visgoth, The Revenant Ring

[vampire-himbos-of-santa-perdita]

I was watching Sweeney Todd last night (as one does when it’s their favourite movie of all time and it’s their birthday), and it reminded me of the Titus Andronicus visgoths canibalism novel I definitely have in mind some time down the line when I’m in the headspace to do that kind of historical research on the earliest European vampire mythologies...

[angualupin]

sixth-light wait shit Alexandria still exists? I thought it...

I’m sorry but this is going in my file as the opposite of the engineer friend who thought Trojan horse was a computer term and that the wooden horse was an elaborate metaphor

I can draw, from memory, how Italy was divided into different provinces during the Late Republic but have absolutely no idea what modern Italy looks like. I have to  look up, every time, what modern country Tyre belongs to. (Syria? Lebanon? Israel? I DON’T KNOW I think it might not even be called Tyre any more?) I find the fact that Anatolia belongs to modern Turkey extremely confusing because I’m a little... unclear... on the existence of Turkey. I don’t know how the modern line between Iran and Iraq squares with the map of Parthia in my head. I asked my husband a few months ago if the Nile still flooded annually and he stared at me like I had grown a second head.

Basically my knowledge of the Mediterranean and its environs stops about the year 600. Are you sure the Visgoths aren’t still running Spain?

[abitofafatass]

((What if. What if its sixth century BC not AD.

Instead of the Visgoths and Ostrogoths and Byzantines and Lombards, Grif is dealing with the motherfucking monarchy of Ancient Rome