[HPforGrownups] Re: Pure Blood Parentage

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 75829

Caipora:

 [..No Jews or Arabian folk. The rule was if you could prove your four
 grandparents were clean, your blood was clean.]

 >>From which time dates the decline of Spain.

 Pretty much, yes.

>> Salazar Slitherin's first name is Iberian. Is he Basque? The founding
> of Hogwarts is about the time of the Song of Roland. Did Slitherin
> flee Spain just ahead of the invading Moors?
>  - Caipora

It can't be a Basque name. I don't live there, but I hear and read (not saying 
I understand) Basque enough to know there isn't a syllabe in Salazar matching 
Basque, wich is a pretty extrange idiom on its own. If you see a linguistic 
tree ordering idioms by similitudes, you'll find a category for Basque (and 
only other one, I think, we studied that at high school, but was 10+ years 
ago).

Salazar is and Arabian name, as Seville, Guadalajara, Guadalquivir (anything 
starting with Gua has a big chance), Granada, Azofaifa, ... Espanish has 
lots.

The whole Peninsula wasn't invaded (ok, maybe 95%), so the Reconquist started. 
That's when I need an Historian, because the Peninsula wasn't an easy 
territory to conquer so frontier lines moved along a wide period, but I've 
found some references

AD 1035 Sancho the Great splits Aragon in two
AD 1118 Alfonso I of Aragon conquered Zaragoza (Saragossa)
AD 1094 El Cid conquers Valencia (only took 5 years to be recaptured, cause he 
died in 1099)

Depending on what means 'about a thousand years ago' Salazar could have flee 
Spain, perfectly, or could've find a safe place in some Muslim city. There 
was territory to live at both sides.

silmariel