Wow! My brother did his DNA, along with our parents. We have middle Easter blood, along with some Jewish, Spanish, Portuguese, and norther African blood. We are from Mexico.

I love the information you are providing and the tonality of it because there is no purity, not because we mixed. Rather we re-mixed for whether you are religious or not, there is one truth. All of us human beings come from one pool.

This is an excellent video loaded with valuable information. Very helpful.

In Cuba one of the most famous rice is "Moros y Cristianos" which is Black Beans and Rice

Great video. Awesome. My family is from Portugal and Spain

I want to congratulate you on this video. I am of Spanish ancestry and certainly must have a cocktail of ethnicities. This is due to the fact that not only my ancestors came from various parts of Mother Spain but that the Iberian Peninsula has always been a melting pot a crossroads of different empires, peoples and cultures. This makes my ancestral homeland one of the most interesting, unique and marvelous countries not only in Europe but in the world. I really enjoyed your video. Hope that the future ones are as informative and interesting as this one. Greetings from Puerto Rico.

Good job, Ali. I am currently researching 16th century Spain. I learned a thing or two from your video. I subscribed and am looking forward to your next one.

I am Paraguayan of Spanish ancestry, the product of endogamy among the descendants of the first conquistadors of the Rio de la Plata. These were 16th century Spaniards, from the time the Moors were still in Spain. However, I have no North African or Middle Eastern ancestry: not on paper and not on DNA results.

I love history, thank you so much for all the very interesting information. ❤️

Great video. Thank you. Quito-Ecuador 🇪🇨

In Spanish you would spell the name of the city Córdoba, where the ó with the accent mark tells you it's the emphasized vowel. So you would pronounce it "CORdoba" with the emphasis on the first o

Soooo glad to have you back. Let’s do all we can to make it possible for you to continue producing these excellent and educationally valuable videos. Now, I have a request for you: Kindly present us with a thorough DNA review of that smaller, and therefore relatively neglected Iberian country - PORTUGAL. Why, you may ask. Well, Portugal was a huge colonizing power during the age of colonization. GOA, situated on the West coast of the Indian Subcontinent, was the capital of Portugal do Orient. Like their Roman ancestors, the Portuguese tended to intermarry with those whom they colonized. How profoundly valuable it would be to learn about the genetic makeup of the Portuguese, apart from what History tells us. And then perhaps, someday, having learned about the Portuguese two-staged colonization of Goa, the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa, and the intricacies of Goa’s Caste System, you will be inspired to venture out to study and do a similar video of Goan people, who are increasingly being outnumbered, in Goa, by Non-Goan Indians. Welcome back to your enormous Fan base!

I love how you included the genetic aspects here. Keep up the good work

It’s funny how the video diminished the fact that the label “North African” includes those of many ethnicities, including sub-Saharan African. e.g. “North African populations show a complex and heterogeneous genetic structure that has been described as an amalgam of at least four different ancestral components from the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and also indigenous North Africans who are distinct from these three.”

I 'M from Morocco and recently I did a test DNA .The result was 75,7% north African and 18,5 Iberian

if you go further back in time there was even more mixing. Carthage was also in all of southern spain. before them were the greeks. after them, the romans. after the romans, the visigoths. so that huge mix resulted in the gorgeous spaniards we see today, pale to olive skin, dark hair, and often light eyed. strikingly beautiful. most gorgeous in europe i think.

Great video.

Great video! I visited Spain and Morocco in 1976, when I was a kid. I''ve always wanted to go back, but never had the opportunity. I remember well the Alhambra and the cathedral that was once a mosque.

Thank you! Very informative and scientific!

Thank you for this video. I am an American and I’m learning about my mother’s family’s history in Malaga, Spain and this makes a lot of sense to me. My son looks very much like you and whenever he meets people from North Africa, they always ask him where his family is from originally.

There's a great book about the war of the Alpujarras, (granada) which besides the battles also shows the common person's experience of the turmoil at the time. It's called "El Ultimo Morisco" by Diego Ramos. It's available in spanish right now (I listened to it on audio) but I heard the author is almost done with the english translation!

Great video!! I have visited Cordova and loved it but didn't make it to Alhambra but hopefully in the next few years. I'm Mexican and when I checked my DNA, most of it is Iberian (87%), with Mexican Native American (7%) , Celt (5%) and small percentage of North African ( 1%)

Amazing Video ❤

Good onya mate great video I really enjoyed it👍

I don't understand how black people can claim moor's history when the moor's family names, history, architecture and musical styles are still present amongst Northern African only...

Amazingly done! Thank you, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Brilliant docu mate...

Spain is very diverse, all people came and conquered. I was born in Barcelona and they called my( avi ) pop the Viking, he was tall, blue eyed and very fair, his 3 daughters too, my mum was the youngest, the 4 grand kids, we are the same, and 2 of my adult children too... so, who knows where people come from, we are all mixed.

My DNA indicate significant Iberian and Caucuses genetic makeup. My mother's parents are from The Abruzzi, Italy. My father's father was Scott Irish born on the boat crossing from Scotland and his mother, my grandmother Eliza, was a full blooded Eastern Band Cherokee Indian. I have very light olive colored skin, chestnut colored long hair with green eyes.

That was very interesting. Thanks.

Great video ! Thanks !!!

Is it normal in English to pronounce _Córdoba_ with stress on the ‑do‑ syllable: /cor-DO-ba/? In Spanish, the stress goes on the first syllable Cór‑ as the written accent indicates: /CÓR-do-ba/.

there is a small mistake on the translation of "Limpieza de Sangre" on 3:19 - in english, it would be ""cleanliness of blood"" - but yeah, it has the meaning of what it sounds

I enjoyed watching this magnificent video, as I am a descendant of Baniu Nsr of Granada Alhambra). Thank you Ali 🌷

I enyoyed watching this video and this Dude; he's good at making all this feels interesting

Great video. I wish a new Video about descendend from Romania, becouse the otoman imperium was there very long.

Moors = Morrocan and from Morocco entered the Muslims that why for all the Spanish it were The Moors, the first step of conquest from the Land of Moor which was in the past (before the coming of Islam) a kingdom called "Mauritania Tenjitana" with capital Tanger, which is today the Current Moorocco. The architecture of those in Andalous still exists only in Morocco and only Moroccans who can make it the same and better than those of the past ( you are in morocco take a look to it).

Bro's look fits in to many of the countries he visits, now you look like your ancestors were conquistadors. Yo brother, congrats on your series, you deserve it, and more. I remember your first video on "are Iranians European" lots of love to you dadash, peace out bro.

I enjoyed this documentary. Please more

I fell in love with a north African ancestral Portuguese girl when i was traveling in Évora Monte, Portugal in my early 20's so many years ago, and she was so wonderful and fantastic! I serenaded her from her bedroom window that night we kissed under the ancient roman pillars over looking the region from the peak of town, and enjoyed coffee in the medina on that night of magic together-whispering words of fascination and admiration for one another. But my ignorance and nativity won and I left on my continued travels only to one day realize what I lost and suited the failure in love to come, but I will never forget her! Bless her soul and may she be happy and content today with her life as it followed!!!

Although what said is true, North African DNA in Iberia is there in the same amount as today (or even more) since the Roman times, like you can see in the monte da nora samples of Portugal.

Excelente documental! Muchos éxitos

Great video man very accurate.

My family and I visited the Cathedral, formerly the Mosque of Cordoba and were amazed at the architecture and history. We loved the experience. Preserved within the structure you will see pillars and portions of the Visigothic Church that was there before the Mosque. To think Spain was part of the Roman Empire before the Visigothic and Moorish invasions is incredible. Parts of Southern Spain (Andalusia) were colonized by the Phoenicians and the Greeks. Bottom line is, every country has been invaded and left their mark. The Spanish people retook their Country from an invading force. While some Muslim Caliphates were tolerant of other faiths, in the 12th and 13th centuries a new more fundamentalist sect took over. The Christians faced with this fundamentalist had to make a choice and they chose to fight. I’m glad they did and I’m glad they preserved Christianity in the Iberian peninsula.

I came across one record saying the ancestors of the present Bedoin of the western North African coast were the multiglot Cartheginian Phoenicians. After Rome destroyed Carthage, some of those Carthaginian peoples/tribes melted away into the background of that general area. Note that North Africa was green fertile prairie at that time according to the Roman historians Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. Egypt, the Sinai, "Palestine", Lebanon, and the Fertile Crescent were lush green fertile for millennia up until 600 years ago when the area started turning into desert. Yes caused by serious abrupt climate change mid 14th century.

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sooo cool and so glad i found

Some inhabitants were indistinguishable from current Spaniards because a large part were Hispanic converts to Islam, not because they necessarily had North African blood. It is more than proven that in Spain there was hardly any genetic trace left, only in specific areas and the percentage is minimal. That is really what is surprising and that we have not lost our cultural identity, the one left by Rome makes sense because of everything that happened during and after (expulsions, etc.), he need and constant effort to highlight something like this begins to seem quite strange, obsessive not to say absurd, which also only serves to create confusion in historical issues, especially taking into account that Spain was not the only place in Europe occupied by Muslims.. By the way, those words stuck 800 can be found in English, French, Italian... that is because the Arabs were dedicated to commerce and those words were acquired in common use by the population

I'm Brazilian with no connection with Moors since I have Japanese background, but what is interesting is that many words in Portuguese we speak in Brazil has Arabic roots, very similar to Spanish, which shows a great influence of that culture, linguistically speaking, in the Iberic peninsula. Also, I always wondered why the typical dish here is rice and beans, especially rice. I suppose it has the Moor influence as well.

Please do Cypriot DNA History! You would have to factor in at least the 2 main populations, but it would be so worth it I think!

Great info 👍

Be careful of thr Afrocentrists who may come to this channel and try to say Moors were Sub Saharan Africans

Si fuera cierto que hay más gallegos que tienen más ADN bereber (la diferencia sería pírrica, si es que la hay que no tengo claro que sea cierto), sería por su cercania geográfica con Portugal (no se expulsó tanto por allá) o quizás por los flujos migratorios de los conversos, pero culturalmente Galicia no tiene absolutamente nada que ver con los musulmanes y predomina la simbología celta y cristiana. Por otro lado tener uno u otro ancestro suelto o tener algo de ADN de fuera no habrá afectado lo más mínimo al fenotipo. Incluso la mayor parte de canarios, que sí tienen gran aporte guanche, no son físicamente tan diferentes de los peninsulares. Finalmente, Andalucía al margen de ADNs tiene un rico y precioso legado arquitéctonico/cultural de Al-Andalus, que es un orgullo para todos. Saludos!

thanks a lot ,really enjoy learnung from your Chanel and your knowledge, 😊 by the way you're so handsome too

Very cool!

If you look at contemporaneous depictions of Moors, most show relatively fair olive skin with some darker individuals - pretty much what you'd find in North Africa today. It wasn't until the Renaissance that you really see "Moors" depicted as sub Saharan Africans, probably because by that time slavery and increased trade were bringing more sub Saharan Africans to Europe, and they got lumped in with the Moors.

As a spanish, and a fan of our history this video is very well explained and quite fair on the dates and politics (to my knowledge) gracias por la precisión. This is quite a talking point in Spain in general, so info comes in handy.

So good 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Bello video con una nuova moda. Sono eccitato per il nuovo documentario.

You have to admit that Muslim Architecture is great. They were centuries ahead of the barbarian Goths that lived in houses with dirt floors. One more thing about this period of time: The Jews in Spain that didn't convert had to leave all their property and valuables when they left Spain. Two things came of this: One) Columbus had a hard time finding ships because most were being used by Jews leaving Spain. Two) the "family jewels" Queen Isabella sold to pay for Columbus' trip were actually Jewish jewels that had been taken from Jews escaping from Spain. So, Columbus' trip to the New World was actually financed by the Jews.

congratulations for this video man, absolutely brilliant

Very good job ❤️

Very interesting!❤😂

Iben Sina and Ben Maimon met in Cordoba for establishing the very first medical centers 🎉

Cuban American here. Interesting to hear re higher African roots in Canary Islanders. My fathers family have roots there and my sister showed a significantly high percentage of African dna. You also did not mention the deep Arabic roots of our surnames as well.

Very Interesting!

Good job 👍 thank you

Congrats, awesome video !! Being a native of Gran Canaria I totally agree.

top notch video Ali

Well done 😊

BEEN THERE AND LIVED IN SEVILLA AND BEEN DOWN TO GRANADA THE ALHAMBRA. TRULY AMAZING TIME, AND MISSING THAT TIME IN MY LIFE, VERY MUCH XXXXXXX TO SPAIN 🇪🇸

This is a great video. One thing we have to understand, though, is that the “Moors” were a heterogeneous group who interact with Europe for several hundred years. They also interacted with parts of Europe besides Spain. SOME of these Moors were indeed Sub-Saharan African.

You seem to forget or misunderstand the key role of Algeria (historically called Central Maghreb) in the Andalusian history and culture in Iberia. Algeria was the starting point of the Andalusian epic and today it is still the main receptacle of Arab-Berber-Andalusian culture ( the legacy of the Moors) because it welcomed the largest flows of Andalusian Moorish refugees. It was in Tlemcen that Tariǫ Ibn Ziad, an Algerian Berber, began negotiations with Count Julien, governor of Ceuta to prepare for the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. A large number of the troops engaged to prepare for the conquest of Hispania came from the Central Maghreb (Algeria) The “Algerian” coast was the destination chosen by Moorish refugees fleeing the Reconquista after 1492, notably because the “Moroccan” coast could not accommodate them. The main ports on the Moroccan coast were attacked by Spain and Portugal. Tlemcen, like many other cities in Algeria (Constantine, Annaba, Bougie, Oran, Miliana, Médéa, Collo, Dellys, Algiers, Koléa, Blida…) shares a large part of the memory of medieval Arab-Berber-Andalusian civilization. The toponymy refers to the Andalusian past. Families of Andalusian descent are much more numerous than you seem to believe. Just for Algiers, historians estimate that in the 17th century, out of 100.000 inhabitants, 25.000 were Andalusian. In Algeria, the repertoire of Andalusian music is rich and varied. It is the only country in the Maghreb which has three schools (three styles) of Andalusian music. Wearable, culinary, musical art, to name but a few, are a heritage of Arab-Berber-Andalusian civilization... Finally, it is really no coincidence that the last king of Granada took refuge in Tlemcen with his family and found his final home there. (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtyXeciTpqfWlH0.html)

This video was very informative. Thank you so much for sharing.

Please do Portugal next!

I believe the Moors were descendants of the Carthagians who were descendants of the Phoenicians who apparently were themselves descendants of the Caananites who themselves were descended from Minoans and or Ammorites. I believe they intermarried with local populations along the way which would make their ancestry appear very diverse from essentially all over the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Because the phonecians & romans are literally the same Levant, Mediterranean dna long before any of those names or ppls self identified as Muslim Arab or Christians its hard to use these titles as such. It just confuses the situation id imagine. I've often read that Sardinia has some of the entire world's most recently shared dna that's found far and wide . Idk where these studys ended its been a long time since it was mentioned

My Great, Great, Great grand parents came from San Sebastián North Spain where we weren’t mixed with moors! Although when my great grandparents came to Ecuador that was called La Grand Colombia their kids mixed with the Native American people that live in Ecuador making us Mestizó Half white half Native American.

I made a similar video a few years ago. It is important to note that North Africans are Amazigh and they speak Tamazight in Addition to Derija( a lingua Franka with loan words from Tamazigh, Arabic, French, and Spanish).

A great post, Ali! Boy, you’re brave. In one post, you managed to burst the bubbles of most Arabs, the Amazigh nationalists, the Afrocentric crowd, and the Spanish themselves. DNA doesn’t lie and whilst the culture was Islamic and Arabic, the population was by and large Iberian.

The equivalent in Spanish to the English phrase "the coast is clear" is "no hay moros en la costa" meaning "there are no Moors on the coast".

Gracias hermano, shukran bro

Do you have any videos on the Black Irish? I heard N Africa had a substantial influence there. My sister had a DNA test done & found N African ancestry. My uncle was black haired & olive skinned, & my sister & I had very dark hair & olive skin, though we have a very Irish last name. Take care, your channel is interesting.

I'm from Brazil and I have about 10% North African Admixture component in my autosomal DNA. Be as it may that Iberian Catholics tried to 'purge' , as you yourself mention, Moorish and Middle Eastern influence, in architecture, cuisine, borrowed words, music as well as genetics, have stood the test of time and are well represented especially in the southern parts of the peninsula.

So cool, I’m Mexican but my great grandparents from both my mom and dad’s side were Spanish. I would love to do a dna test

The city to which my ancestors go back is a city on the western coast of Algeria. It is a very ancient city since the era of the Phoenicians. For several continuous centuries, Andalusians migrated to it even before the Reconquista until it became an Andalusian city par excellence

This video represents all of half my DNA - N. African Canary Islands, Middle East Levant, Egypt Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Galicia Asturias Cadiz Madrid Andalusia Castile and Leon !

I love your videos. You are the best person to learn about the genetic history of peoples I hope you will make a video about the genetic history of Egypt that is clearer than what I presented

Born in CHILE... 1975 i dont speak french at all... à Montpellier j'ai connu la femme de ma vie et elle me dit : my name is Sophie Mauret >Moros... alors "avec le temps"... j'ai réveillée toutes mes racines... voici le résultat : Jorge Alfredo Himaya Tapia del Campo Vischi = Alfredo Jorge Himaya Muret de la Campagne Soudan MERCI INFINIMENT Ancestralbrew pour cette video MAGNIFIQUE 🖤🤍🖤🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤

Really amazing fabulous plus like.

Its worthwhile mentioning that during the inquisition, the contingents of "spanish" that migrated to the so-called new world were in fact way over represented in Jewish and Muslim converts (over 25%). Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico were countries populated in large part by people who fled persecution in Spain. It explains why so many latinos are often indistinguishable from middle easterners in appearance.

North Africans and moors are not sub Saharan and never have been. The North African input has been in Spain since ancient times up to 10% of Spanish dna can be North African depending what region.

Nice vidéo my friend ❤️love from moors

I know the Moors, my mothers maiden name was Moor but her ancestors were English from the south coast of England, Cornwall I think. Does that count?

According to my grandpa, I have mourish DNA but from Portugal rather then Spain. It is also etched in the Portuguese and even Brazilian populus. As for less expulsions from the Portuguese inquisition, that's not true, they'd send new christians, mainly jewish forced converts, to the colonies so a large part of the Brazilian population is jewish and doesn't even suspect it.

Visigothic church According to traditional accounts, the present-day site of the Cathedral-Mosque of Córdoba was originally a Visigothic Christian church dedicated to Saint Vincent of Saragossa,[30] which was divided and shared by Christians and Muslims after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.[31][32][18][10] As the Muslim community grew and this existing space became too small for prayer, the basilica was expanded little by little through piecemeal additions to the building.[11]: 136  This sharing arrangement of the site lasted until 785, when the Christian half was purchased by Abd al-Rahman I, who then proceeded to demolish[9][11] the church structure and build the grand mosque of Córdoba on its site.[32][33] (Wiki)

Did anyone bother to figure out when did the common ancestor of Pasiegos M81 and Berber M81 live? M81 could be 14 000 years old anyway.

How about an examination of the DNA identity of the so called Xueta (Chuetos) of Majorca ?

What about the portugal? Lol love to learn about the DNA makeup of the people from the Azores

A mí me gusta mucho el morisco.. sobre todo las gambas 😂