Ancient history

• The looting of Almanzor to Santiago de Compostela.

  On August 10, 997 there was one of those events that represent a before and after in historical processes. The looting, by Almanzor, of the city where one of the most important Christian relics in Europe was found, the remains of the Apostle Santiago, was a turning point in the so-called Christian R

• Sisebuto, (612-621), the pious, cruel and intellectual Visigoth king.

  The endless list of Gothic kings of Hispania deserves a quiet stop when you arrive at Sisebuto . We have been given the vision that the Visigothic kings were deeply religious and had great talent for war, but also that they were somewhat bloodthirsty and with a certain allergy to the cultural field.

• The War of the Two Peters, 1356-1367. Spain at stake.

  In the middle of the fourteenth century the peninsula was divided into five different kingdoms. One of them, Portugal , licked the wounds of his last civil wars. Meanwhile, Navarra he was content to meddle in the affairs of France, his neighbor to the north, from her shrinking territories. If we loo

• 13th century. From Al-Andalus to Andalusia, a land of cruelty and opportunities.

  The 13th century had just begun, when the year 1212 marked a turning point in the history of what we know today as Andalusia. For the first time, after more than five centuries, a contingent from the Christian kingdoms in the north of the peninsula decisively defeated the Andalusians in the south of

• Urban II's speech, which gave rise to the Crusades.

  Between 1097 and 1293, the medieval world saw involved in two almost continuous centuries of war between Christianity and Islam. Two ways of seeing the world, with the only separation being the Mediterranean Sea, and even the Iberian Peninsula, or the Byzantine Empire, separated by a diffuse land bo

• 14 key dates to know the history of the Vikings.

  The word Viking comes from the ancient Norwegian language; “viking” What does pirate mean? The fascinating Vikings of the Middle Ages were not a new phenomenon in history. Nordic peoples have sought to move to Europe since prehistory. Already in the first century, the Gothic people crossed the Bal

• Isabel I of Castile, the woman who believed in Christopher Columbus.

  At the end of the fifteenth century the Atlantic Ocean was still a dark sea As Al-Idrisi had pointed out four centuries before, teeming with huge monsters. Travelers arriving in Compostela approached Finisterre convinced that nothing existed on the other side. Despite that, it had already been explo

• The Good Guzman, by Juan Luis Pulido Begines.

  I cannot begin without pointing out that this fictionalized biography of the life of Alonso Pérez Guzmán, written by Juan Luis Pulido Begines and published in November by Editorial Almuzara, was totally necessary. Guzman the good. A character who lived through one of the most important periods of th

• From the Battle of Mantzikert to the arrival of the Crusader armies.

  Alp Arslan cover image, turned into Turkey as a kind of medieval hero for his victory at Mantzikert At the end of the 11th century, in what we know today as Turkey, a series of events would profoundly change the rich history of the Anatolian Peninsula. A land that saw the birth of the worlds first

• Crusaders, the story of the first Castilians on their way to Jerusalem.

  Not long ago, in Walking Through History I We were talking about Urban IIs speech that gave rise to the Crusader movement. No matter how many times we want to give it, the crusades were one of the biggest changes in the history of humanity. Two territories united by the Mediterranean, and until rela

• Gosvinta. Rebel, Visigoth and defenestrated by history.

  Gosvinta is another great example that history It is not written by women. She, without a doubt, was one of the most important characters in the history of the Visigoth Kingdom , not only in the 6th century, but possibly during the entire period of survival of the great kingdom of Toledo. But bein

• Pedro I of Castile. The king who ordered the construction of Muslim palaces.

  In the middle of the fourteenth century, in the middle of the century , one of the most unique reigns in the history of Spain begins in Castile. Pedro I of Castile left, or sought, enemies everywhere. From the perspective of time, we can think that Pedro I of Castile received a Castilian Crown in th

• Leovigildo, the sword that forged Visigothic Hispania.

  Year 568. The Visigoth kingdom of Toledo is engulfed in a deep social, economic and political crisis. King Atanagildo had died without leaving a clear heir. Meanwhile, his wife Gosvinta was left a widow and at the head of one of the most important Gothic factions of the Visigothic state. But of cour

• the druid A trip to the dark post Roman Britain.

  5th century AD C. is a century of profound changes in Western Europe. The Roman Empire disappears from the game board, leaving its western provinces in the hands of the barbarian peoples. In Walking Through History we have touched on the subject on numerous occasions to talk about the events in the

• The Visigoths. The archeology of an eminent religious kingdom.

  Although it sounds a bit weird, it can be said without fear of being wrong that the Visigoths are in fashion. For nearly three centuries, the Visigothic kingdom of Hispania led the passage from antiquity to the Middle Ages in our country. Despite this, there were very few publications in the 20th ce

• The mythical foundation of Rome, from Aeneas to Romulus.

  Today, September 4, 2018, is celebrated by first time of the “Day of Romanity”. I invite you to learn more about this act at the following link:diadelaromanidad.com An act that aims to vindicate the common past of millions of people from three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. From Walking Throug

• The Achaemenid dynasty, kings of kings.

  It is evident that the figure of Xerxes presented to us cartoonist Frank Miller, and filmmaker Zack Snyder is far from reality. Especially the image of him, since the fourth king of the Achaemenid dynasty Rather he seems to have come from some African kingdom than to be a descendant of the Iranian

• Brief history of the Hittites.

  At the beginning of the II millennium BC, the heart of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) will see the birth of one of the most important empires in ancient history. The Hittites, to whom they attribute important advances such as being the first to dominate the elaboration of tools and weapons with iro

• The world that Alexander the Great left us

  Few figures in ancient history have been as influential as Alexander Magno in the mind of emperors, kings, or strategists of the different historical periods. We can say that Alejandro had a dream and they lived the rest for him . Alexander the Great, the young king of Macedonia (22 years old) depar

• Put in the skin of a Roman legionnaire.

  “Valerio, who was engaging in close combat for the first time, decided that the best option he had at that time was to stay behind his shield and not show his head, in case when he did so to attack he received a thrust in the face. Therefore, he limited himself to enduring the attacks and the blows