The demonstrations in the Canary Islands due to the saturation problems of Tenerife have led social networks such as X, the old Twitter, to thick debates about the differences between what in the Canary Islands they call peninsulars or Goths. It has nothing to do with the religious conversion process of the regnum Gothorum from Arianism to Catholicism, as Santiago Castellanos points out in his study 'The Goths and the Cross. Recaredo and the unity of Spania' published by Alianza Editorial in Madrid in 2007. German, peninsular, and British tourists who come to the south of Gran Canaria to reside for a long stay outside the vacation rental circuit usually send emails or messages on social networks to this Maspalomas24H editorial office because they see graffiti that says "goths out" and are They ask if this has to do with tourismphobia. Absolutely. What is a goth? According to the Canarian Academy of Language (ACL), a goth is an adjective that means "derogatory, peninsular Spanish." And he gives as an example: "Years ago a Gothic doctor was here."
En Quora this issue is also debated. For Víctor Lopez "the use of the pejorative expression goth in the Canary Islands refers to those people from the Peninsula predominantly who came with arrogance and claiming to have more knowledge of the Canary Islands than the Canarians, and the Canarians are even called arrogant, that is the Goths. But on the contrary, the Canarians are as Spanish-oriented as the majority of Spaniards, in fact many consider themselves more Spanish than Canary Islanders, let alone more European than African, even when they live in insular Africa.
Germans who live in the south of Gran Canaria or German tourists who know Spanish from having been Erasmus already know the difference but many others are confused because the Goth concept has Germanic origins. He Professor of Ancient History Santiago Castellanos, through the multiple sources available regarding the history of the Hispanic Visigoth kingdom, has analyzed the fundamental bases of its functioning and its end, focusing on aspects such as the keys to the consolidation of the kingdom in the 6th century or the process of its religious conversion from Arianism to Catholicism, thus carrying out a kind of balance of this cycle of conferences.
As a starting point, we will start from the keys to the consolidation of the kingdom in the 6th century, advancing in the process of religious conversion of the regnum Gothorum from Arianism to Catholicism. The contradictions and conflicts of a process that is far from linear, that presents multiple faces depending on the sources we focus on, will allow the public to appreciate the richness of nuances of the Visigothic era in Hispania. The fundamental bases of the functioning of the Spanish Gothic kingdom and its end will be explained, and, ultimately, a balance of the most important aspects of the history of the Visigoth kingdom of Hispania will be offered, as a balance of the cycle.
The Visigoths were a branch of the Goths, who belonged to the East Germanic peoples. When the Roman Empire fell, the Germans dedicated themselves to conquering territories such as Spain, which until then had been in the hands of the Romans. The Visigoths spoke the Germanic language, although in official documents they used Latin, and they completely dominated the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 7th century.
The Visigoths emerged from Gothic groups that invaded the Roman Empire starting in 376 AD. In 378 AD they defeated the Romans in the Battle of Adrianople, and under the command of Alaric I, the first king of the Visigoths, they sacked Rome in the year 410 AD
