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Question:some would, its not possible to lose it (except to records). spain has, however, been intertwined (occasionally taken over) with many other nations in its history. including some from the middle east, and africa, so don't expect it to be there 100% of the time


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: some would, its not possible to lose it (except to records). spain has, however, been intertwined (occasionally taken over) with many other nations in its history. including some from the middle east, and africa, so don't expect it to be there 100% of the time

with all respect, your question is more a historical generality than genealogical 'fact'. Persons in Spain will have various factors in their ancestry. Your ancestor(s) are your ancestors.. they don't change.

No, not at all. Even before there was a Rome, there were people living on the Iberian peninsula (of course wasn't Spain at the time). These included people known just as Iberians and also Celts. Even Phoenicians and Greeks settled there.

Romans did show up, I believe about 200BC or so. But subsequent, you had the Visigoths, Alans, Suibi, etc. Then there was the big Moorish invasion that included the Berbers from North Africa.

The armies that were responsible for the fall of Muslim rule in Iberia were collected from all over Europe.

So with all these influxes over time, I would suspect that very few Spaniards have Roman ancestry as a percentage of the population. But honestly, over the centuries, I would imagine that pretty much each "family" would have had someone from each of these inhabitant populations in their genealogy.

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