“The Loss of Spain” — 711 AD History remembers this moment as the Perdida de España — the fall of the Visigothic kingdom and the rise of Al-Andalus. When the Black African Moors entered Iberia under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr and Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, the old Visigothic order collapsed. This was not chaos — it was the transfer of power. The Chronicle of 754, written by a Christian eyewitness, confirms it clearly: “Spain was taken by the Arabs and Moors sent by Musa.” What followed was nearly eigh

At the Council of Basel in 1434, a fierce debate on heritage ignited between two ambitious kingdoms. The Swedish delegation asserted their claim as the true heirs of the Goths, citing their direct lineage on the ancestral land. To them, this connection was the most valuable historical property a nation could possess, a pure origin story of a formidable people. The Spanish envoy, representing a kingdom flush with success, presented a different narrative. He argued that true Gothic spirit was defi