[pepsi_junkie]

And Andalusia was controlled by the Moors for the 700 years just prior to Columbus setting sail and in those 700 years at least a few native Spaniards may have ... and I’m just speculating here ... may have consorted with the North African muslim conquers. In this admittedly unlikely event of two peoples living together for 700 years possibly intermingling in a bilibal sense, it’s possible that some of that North African / arabian bloodline seeped into the Andalusian one. Again, pure speculation.

[SaveFerris]

[And Andalusia was controlled by the Moors for the 700 years just prior to Columbus setting sail]

I’m sorry but the correct answer is “the Moops”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0uYJjDHeDU

[cll]

it’s possible that some of that North African / arabian bloodline seeped into the Andalusian one. Again, pure speculation.

Oh, that much is obvious. Carthaginian heritage, we call it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Iberian Peninsula was a major melting pot with peoples arriving from all over Europe, the Med, Middle East, and North Africa.

Genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula

DNA study shows 20 percent of Iberian population has Jewish ancestry, by Nicholas Wade, December 4, 2008. Spain and Portugal have a history of fervent Catholicism, but almost a third of the population now turns out to have a non-Christian genetic heritage. About 20 percent of the current population of the Iberian Peninsula has Sephardic Jewish ancestry, and 11 percent bear Moorish DNA signatures, a team of geneticists reports.

Not surprisingly, there is a strong flow in the other direction and a lot of Andalusian blood in Morocco.