Honestly the most overlooked part of Portuguese history, the suebic kingdom layed the foundations for the County of Portugal by increasing the relevance of Bracara Augusta and Portus Cale, centralizing political and religious power. The spaniards pay a lot of respect to their visigothic predecessors, its about time Portugal does the same with the Suebi.

As a Portuguese man, thank you very much for this video. Not enough people mention the Suebians.

The Suebi are one of the most undercovered kingdoms in Iberia, and especially after the post-Roman period, great to see a video on this level of detail and visuals / music made from one of the greatest late-Antiquity creators.

A group of Suebi/Suevi crossed the Mediterranean into North Africa, gone to Carthage And when Justinian sent Belisarius who defeated Geleric the Vandal king of Carthage many Vandals and some Suebi fled to the Mountains of then Numidia and the région became known Sueva- Zveva and Zweva. Currently Kabylia....a whole clan from the Kabylian Tribe is still called Zweva and Zwewa. Bringing the last name Zwewi/Suevi widespread from Kabylia to Northern Tunisia . Zwewis are white Blue eyed and red hair ..and they are very phenotypically distinct even from other white North Africans. It is just a genetica héritage they passed even when they married Arabs or Turks especially in The Town of Bizerta... Northern Tunisia.

An episode on the Briton-Breton migrations to Galicia would be interesting.

Not a lot of channels talk about these small obscure but interesting monarchies, This is why i love this channel.

Portugal was built from Braga, wish shows the importance of our Swabian dna. Every people wanted to live here because even during the coldest winters, oranges grew in january, so there wasnt the thousands of famines who invaded Europe. The swabians helped Portugal to be independent. Thank you very much.

The lands northeast of Braga (Bracara) are still called Terras de Bouro ( The Buri Lands).

Excellent work. I've never seen this level of detail about the Iberian Germanic tribes. Everything I've seen about this period of time in Iberia is usually very vague, short of text books.

Thanks for sharing light on this brother. Most only focus on the visigoths. The artistic style is very pleasant to the eye and the narration is easy to follow. Keep going!

Good video! Not many are interested in the Suevian Kingdom when compared to the Visigoths but they're also interesting.

Great video! I have been looking for something like this for a long time.

Finally another video from Ancient Sight! Keep em coming please.

Nice! I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these stand alone videos

Well made video concerning the history of a small but interesting ancient Iberian kingdom! Not a whole lot of history related channels like yours out there!

Outstanding video, well done

I've been waiting for so long... finally

Thank you very much for this interesting and informative video. You did an excellent job and I look forward to more of your videos.

Wow awesome video, great editing, you deserve way more subscribers my guy!

This is a great video to watch and serves as a good prelude to a CK3 867 Fates of Iberia Start . Learned a lot: the political and religious landscape makes much more sense now. Thanks and subscribed.

That’s why the Spanish and Portuguese languages are related but different! Spanish was influenced by the Visigoths and Portuguese was influenced by the Suebes! Thank you!

Finally a video on the Suebi, they are one of the most if not the MOST underrated barbarian kingdom of Post-Roman Europe. This is the first real video on the Suebis. I have so many questions to ask thou, lol

Great Video! I would love to see similar videos done on other Germanic tribes, like the Ostrogoths in particular. From their settlement in Pannonia to their acquisition of Italy their timeline is very obscure. Especially when looking on maps for dates like 476 CE and still seeing them settled in Pannonia even though Theodoric and his father had likely taken the bulk of the Ostrogoths into the Eastern Roman Empire in 473 CE.

This is an amazing video, and quite a lot of content and information presented, with a very appealing map, for such an obscure period in time of a mysterious Germanic tribe in Hispania

The other Suebi that remained in what today we call Germany, settled in the region they called Swabia.

Looking great!

Kinda cool to see the slow transfer from the the late Roman Empire into the early middle dark ages

great videos thankyou! i subscribed.

Great breakdown of the sub tribes of the Vandals

Your videos are awesome!

Outstanding video!

Hahaha Three of my grandparents are from Galicia (two from southern Galicia) and the fouth was from Leon. Finally it seems that the internet has discovered the ancient Suebian migration to Iberia. They set up a kingdom there and stayed. They did leave us kings with funny names and of course their genes.

I enjoyed your video immensely, so much information crammed into a short space of time 🔥 Y.N.W.A 🔥

Fantastic video

This is amazing.

The Portucalensis County existed since 868 AD, but much before that the people and the region was united and fought the Romans as no one else did. The Celts Bracari were described by Roman and Greek writers. If we just consider a country as it is today, so Germany didnt exist before the end of the 19th century.

Why so many peoples from North Europe went to Iberia? GERMANIC FAMINES -Famines affected all Germany areas for many times. In a regular way existed great famines especially from 1315/17 until the worst famine of 1845/48. The Volga Germans experienced periodic famines brought about by both natural and man-made causes. FAMINES IN NORTH EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL AGE Famines caused by crop failures and poor crop years were an ever present danger in medieval Europe. It was often not possible to relieve a famine in one area by importing grain from another area as the difficulty of overland transportation caused the price of grain to double for each 50 miles it was transported. One study concluded that famines in Europe occurred on an average every 20 years between the years 750 and 950. The principal causes were extreme weather and climatic anomalies which reduced agriculture production. Warfare was not found to be a major cause of famine. A study of crop failures in Winchester, England from 1232 to 1349 found that harvest failure occurred an average of every 12 years for wheat and every 8 years for barley and oats. Localized famine may have occurred in years in which one or more crops failed. Weather was again identified as the chief cause. Climatic change may have played a part as the Little Ice Age may have begun between 1275 and 1300 with a consequent shortening of the growing season. Warfare was apparently responsible for a major famine in Hungary from 1243 to 1245. These were the years in the aftermath of the Mongol invasion and widespread destruction. Twenty to fifty percent of the population of Hungary is estimated to have died of hunger and war. The best known and most extensive famine of the Middle Ages was the Great Famine of 1315-1317 (which actually persisted to 1322) that affected 30 million people in northern Europe, of whom five to ten percent died. The famine came near the end of three centuries of growth in population and prosperity. The causes were "severe winters and rainy springs, summers and falls." Yields of crops fell by one-third or one-fourth and draft animals died in large numbers. The Black Death of 1347-1352 was more lethal, but the Great Famine was the worst natural catastrophe of the later Middle Ages. - In Iberia, there was no such famines as in North Europe, because the weather was much better, warm temperature , long day light, mild winters, without the frozens, ice, snow and hard cold winds of the North and because of the Arab Agricultural Revolution, the Arab Muslim rulers of much of Al Andalus (8th through the 15th centuries) introduced or popularized a large number of new crops and new agricultural technology into the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The crops introduced by the Arabs included sugar cane, rice, hard wheat (durum), citrus, cotton, and figs. Many of these crops required sophisticated methods of irrigation, water management, and "agricultural technologies such as crop rotation, management of pests, and fertilizing crops by natural means." During many famines in North Europe, Portugal exported grains, meat, olive oil, wine, sardine and several other products to England and several other European countries who were usually hard affected by these famines.

Fantastic

Great to hear you fixed your pronunciation of Suebi for this video. Otherwise, I was already a big fan of your videos. There's otherwise not much good coverage of late antiquity on KZfaq!

Long time no see.

Most interesting. I always thougjt the Suebi played second fiddle to the Vandals and Visigoths.

I don't know why this was suggested to me, but damn, that was detailed! I always wonder about those peoples who swept across Europe, had their time, and then disappeared.

The Suebi built the first churches with overcast bows, which style would become prominent during the Arabic period.

Still waiting for Heraclius tragic story, but nice vid !

Nice

Excellent video. Thanks for your work. From this content and what is known, I'm guessing northwest Iberia remained in Visigoth control after the fall of the Suebi for only around 100 years before the Moors invaded? This means that, in that particular area, the Suebi occupation was longer and probably had more influence in local language and culture than the Visigoth. Interesting. People should dig deeper the connection between the Suebi and the portuguese/galician.

And that is one of the reasons why people from the region of Minho, portugal are know to be relentless and indomitable, invictus.

Such and interesting tidbit that a few Brits settled in Galicia.

This small piece of land never gave up fight for the dominance of what today is Portugal!!

Put this on double speed, it's just out of control

Ah, the Suebi, a tribe whose history with Rome dates to the Late Republic. With how frequently the tribes of Germania seemed to subsume one another over the centuries, seeing them establish their own kingdom alongside relative newcomers like the Goths and Vandals is a bit surreal.

Great History lesson

Yout videos look so amazing What tools do you use

I always forget about the Suebi.

this was a rollercoaster of emotions, loved every second!

These maps are beautiful! Did you make them on photoshop?

Lets go

Question: When Hermenegild rebelled against his father, was he controlling some sort of territory during his revolt. I am just a little confused because the video seemingly shows his controlling much of the south-west of the peninsula.

What about Phocas?

Ótimo!

Yes in Minho there are much more Blondes. Portuguese Phenotype The physical anthropology of the Portuguese people. Blonde hair is the type of hair corresponding to an unequal sexual figure, where female individuals imply a greater emphasis on the opposite of the male sex. This hair class accounts for 17.75% of males and 23.23% of females. The average percentage of blonde hair in the general population is therefore 20%. Blondes exist all over the country. But from a general point of view, the entire mountainous region of the north of the Tagus, with the exception of the coast and the mouth of the Douro, is where the population is significantly blonde. The southern provinces - Extremadura, Alentejo and Algarve, are generally comparatively micrometric. By districts, the northern provinces are significantly blonde in the districts of Viseu, Guarda, Braga, Bragança and Viana do Castelo. In the southern and coastal region of the country, small differences are noted in Faro, Lisbon, Santarém, Coimbra, Évora, Portalegre and Beja, respectively. In short, the country is heterogeneous when it comes to the distribution of blonde hair. On the Beirão plateau, in the mountains of Trás-os-Montes and mainland Minho, is where the population is significantly blonde. In the coastal regions and plains of Alentejo there is already a relatively small percentage of this type of hair. The adjacent islands still show an equally vulgar percentage, where only the district of Angra do Heroísmo has another excess of blonde hair.

Man if I missed this

Charles Kos covered this years ago

Great video, just one criticism it's Ourense not Orense

Joana Schenker the beautiful Luso Swabian girl was Bodyboard World Champion! She was born on October 1987 in the beautiful Costa Vicentina, Algarve. She is the oldest daughter of four girls, her German parents live in Portugal, where they raise the family in a natural and relaxed environment. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdqZpK6Qrq2shJs.html

Are these Suebi same as Swabians in Germany ?

Why "Orense"? It is Ourense, or Auria for the time

This is cool too, but I was hoping for Heraclius

Have you noticed the surprising morpheme-to-morpheme and phoneme-to-phoneme similarity of such ethnonyms as SUAVI/SCHWABEN (Germans) < SKLAVI/SKLAVENI (Slavs)? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osyUq8KinsiUZJ8.html

Among the invaders everyone knew who the real vandals were.

What is calcedonian christianity?

where are the coins dude?

Rather dramatic music for events that happened 2000 years ago. It’s like Mark Felton music.

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So the suebi speek spanish!!🤔🤔

Spain used to be German and also Celtic.. it fell to Islam who erased a lot of the history... I feel a lot of Spainish people do not have family trees going back very far because of it.. They even had tp pay a tax for not being Muslim. My actual tree goes back to the King of the Suebi.. 2 of them as a matter of fact.. I am directly releated..

11:03 why was Theodomir an Arian? You mean Chalcedonian? Otherwise it clashes with the rest

Hispania, not 'Iberia Peninsula'.

Those bloody germans.

Thanks for this video I am from Braga! :D My history teacher many times said the reason why there´s so many blonde people in the north of Portugal is probably due to Germanic invasions :D

Good video, although the insistance on the term "Calchedonian christianity" surely is a disservice to the viewer from the overall situation of Christian Church.

Hello brother nice to see you

Idk if I commented before, but it's always an iffy sight to see "Wikipedia" listed as a source. It would be better to list what they cite as a source (and verify that source if it's actually saying what the article says).

I think that Suebi are Serbs ( Srbi on serbian language). I heart "Svebi" in this video, lowercase letter v is very similar lowercase letter r. There is the river Ibar in Serbia. We, in Serbia say for Portugal, Portugalija. Two words: porta, which means the main door or entrance and galija which means big ship.

They were very successful ravagers, by the account of a seventh-century traveler referenced by Gibbon destroying every town and city in Hispania, virtually obliterating centuries of civilized development and reducing the population by at least half. Not the kind of legacy to be celebrated, but observed and reviewed nonetheless.

Great video - Great info. TERRIBLE SOUNDTRACK!

Lusatians and Suebi is clear that are Lusatian Serbs as their name in today east Germany.

The area of Aqua Flavie from where i came from {about 30km to the east} should be difficult to take due to its geographical psositon and the river in the middle.One could defend the are with a few well trained men.Today the place is rot with ''democratic'' corrupt thugs.

Vandal, Suebe-Srbi, Alanians, all just different Serbian tribes...

You say south west and show the people you're talking about settling in the northwest. Not impressed.

The map would be a lot more informative if the chosen colors weren't literally the worst - the creator's selected shades of red and green couldn't be less distinguishable, even for people with some green cones. The content seems decent, but the map is useless for viewers without perfect color vision. I can only imagine how annoying it must be for dichromats. Please look up colorblindness and learn how color vision works so you can produce content that's accessible to everyone instead of only full trichromats.

Se a ancestral capital Braga fosse hoje capital, o bilionario litio nao estaria nas maos dos corruptores estrangeiros. Lisboa é territorio Al Andalus.

Çhrist / divine central authority unity ordering substantive human rights choice is emperor

Its obvious that nazis didnt know nothing about arianism...

Both Suevi and Vandals were Slavic and spoke Slavic language, yes they were Germanic but all ancient Germania spoke Slavic language. The proper ancient, both Roman and Greek, spelling was "Suevi" which was deliberately altered in XIX century by Bismarck propagandists to "Suebi" in order to fit their false imperial legend. Alans were a part of Sarmatians and Scythes who also were close both genetically and linguistically to Slavs.

Suebi were Slavic. Do some research. They influenced Portuguese language and it explains why it sounds "Slavic like" for English speakers.

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