Visigothic Kingdom of Toletum

The Visigothic Kingdom was a Western European power in the 5th to 8th centuries in Hispania, it used to be the most advanced kingdom in West Europe until musllims conquered it.

Muslim monuments as the Mosque of Cordoba and the Alhambra are worldwide known, specially by the push of muslimphile french and brit scholars from 19th and past century.

What many persons don´t know is that these buildings were built over Visigothic buildings.

Long time before Franks built the palatine palace of Aquisgran, visigoths ordered to built not only palaces using as model roman villas (something muslims cpied later in Alhambra) but entire basilicas and palatine cities such as Reccopolis following roman-byzantine urbanism and decorating them with rich frescoes and polychrome columns, as well as solar, christian, geometric and vegetal symbols.

None of these ruins survived to our days, muslims not happy with degrade the local population, also used the roman and visigothic monuments to build their own mosques and palaces on a massive Damnatio memoriae campaign against the most prosperous of early medieval kingdoms of Europe, stealing in the process many artistic motifs created by the visigoths such as the Horseshoe arch, roped shafts, polychrome columns, Pointed archs, etc. Motifs today linked to Islam but that originally were used by thee visigoths.

We must remember, all this was made in West Europe during dark ages peak (5th-8th centuries), Islam and semites were and are the racial enemies of europeans, no matter the type, latin, germanic, slavic, hellenic, etc. They are a plague in a world, a plague that must be cleaned from this world.

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> it used to be the most advanced kingdom in West Europe until musllims conquered it.

That's not saying much. The Germanic hordes were called barbarians by the Romans and Greeks for good reason. The only part of the Iberian peninsula you can consider advanced was the southern part during the Justinian's reconquista.

>muslims not happy with degrade the local >population, also used the roman and >visigothic monuments to build their own ??>mosques and palaces on a massive >Damnatio memoriae campaign against the >most prosperous of early medieval kingdoms

They did this to the Byzantines too - Fatih Mosque was built on top of the Church of the Holy Apostles and is a note for note replica of the Hagia Sophia. Too bad the United Faggot Kingdom protected their faggot Turk friends in the 19th century or Constantinople would have been liberated and much of their damage and vandalism undone.

A lot of Romans lived under them for a long time; so Roman culture was somewhat preserved.

The Germanic successor kingdoms were very much advanced societies in their own right, the notion that they were all mud hut-dwelling snowniggers is just the Enlightenment philosophers assuming that the fall of the Roman Empire was an Armageddon-tier catastrophe that left Western Europe a smoking crater

you're a fag dude. people like you live in cities and write poetry about wet assholes

>Enlightenment philosophers assuming that the fall of the Roman Empire was an Armageddon-tier catastrophe that left Western Europe a smoking crater
yes, they jerked off over how enlightened they were that they invented the myth of the "dark ages" to make their ideas look good in comparison. despite the myth being rejected by historians for the last 10+ years, it is still commonly believed

Just going to copy wiki here ignore the numbers

Reccopolis (Spanish: Recópolis; Latin: Reccopolis), located near the tiny modern village of Zorita de los Canes in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, is an archaeological site of one of at least four cities founded in Hispania by the Visigoths.[1] It is one of only two cities in Western Europe known to have been founded between the fifth and eighth centuries.

that was an israelite kingdom

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Reccopolis was founded in the year 578. The date is given in chronicle of John of Biclaro:

Luivigildus rex extinctis undique tyrannis, et pervasoribus Hispaniae superatis sortitus requiem propiam cum plebe resedit civitatem in Celtiberia ex nomine filii condidit, quae Recopolis nuncupatur: quam miro opere et in moenibus et suburbanis adornans privilegia populo novae Urbis instituit.

A cache of coins was discovered in the city's palace, fixing the date of construction between 580–83. Coin variety indicated cultural reach, with gold coins of the Merovingian series, Suevic coins from Galicia and of Justinian II, as well as from Visigothic Hispania itself.[3] Reccopolis had an active mint, coins from which have been found dating to the reign of Wittiza, in the early eighth century.[4]

The city was named by the Visigothic king Liuvigild to honor his son Reccared I and to serve as Reccared's seat as co-king in the Visigothic province of Celtiberia, to the west of Carpetania, where the main capital, Toledo, lay. As a post-Roman royal foundation the city's only European rival in the sixth century was Ravenna. In the eighth century the Visigoths at Reccopolis welcomed Muslim over-lordship in return for Muslim protection. The Moors conserved the city as Madinät Raqquba and though they reused building materials to construct a fortification on a hill facing the city, the city declined and was burned, looted, razed, and incrementally abandoned in the tenth century. It lay forgotten until the twentieth century.[5]

Today Reccopolis is a large field of ruins[6] in the Cerro de la Olíva. There are plans to protect the partially excavated site as Parque Arqueológico Recópolis.[7] In 2007, the Museo Arqueológico Regional in Alcalá de Henares mounted an exhibition called "Recópolis: un paseo por la ciudad Visigoda" and published an accompanying catalogue.

Design
Archaeological excavations at Reccopolis have revealed traces of city walls with towers every thirty metres, an aqueduct,[8] commercial and residential quarters covering 30 hectares, several markets, and a mint. Its urban core was centered on a palace with administrative as well as royal functions, connected with a palatine chapel, an arrangement that has Byzantine parallels. On the western wall, a single entrance gate provided access. Within this a second gate formed an entrance to an "upper city" of the palace compound and its attached chapel. The "lower city" outside contained lodgings for the ordinary citizens, commercial districts and a barracks.

The palace was two stories tall. The lower story was a single space, perhaps a granary, with column bases supporting the story above. Flooring remnants indicate the second story may have been the piano nobile. The roofs were tiled, as they had been in Roman times. The palace chapel is possibly the last of the Visigothic Arian churches, but it was overlaid by the Romanesque hermitage of Nuestra Señora de Recatel, which was constructed on the ruined site. It was of basilica construction, with a central nave separated by solid walls from the flanking naves. These exited into the transept, but did not communicate directly with the nave. Its hemispherical apse was rectangular in outer appearance. A deep narthex was entered by a single central door.