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On Language, Culture and Diversity in Spain
Ariadne de Villa
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2018.01.005
Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, Texas, USA
The Iberian Peninsula was first inhabited by Celts, Iberians, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, and later Berbers. How is it possible that in a spam of only 50 years, the Berbers were able to go pass the Pyrenees and practically ruled what today is Portugal, Spain, and the region of France? This article attempts to uncover the sociological aspects that helped the Berbers and Arabs govern the Iberian Peninsula. It was due to the commonalities and not the differences that Spain’s political leaders went from Arian Visigoths to Muslims for the next 800 years. Ignacio Olague’s book La Revolución Islámica en Occidente (The Islamic Revolution in the West), also translated as Les Arabes N'ont Jamais Envahi l'Espagne (The Arabs Never Invaded Spain), serves as one instrument to shed light to how this historical event took place. The result of this fusion of cultures not only created a rich civilization that would plant the seeds of the Renaissance three centuries before it started in Italy, but also contributed to the formation of a new language (between 720-750 AD), El castellano o español (Spanish language), which today is the official language in twenty one countries.
multiculturalism, diversity, medieval Spain, Visigoths and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, convivencia, contributions of Islamic Spain in the West
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