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The term "Moors" has also been used in Europe in a broader sense to refer to Muslims, especially those of Arab or African descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa. During the colonial years the Dutch introduced the name "Moor", in Sri Lanka. The Bengali Muslims were called Moor. [2] Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people. Medieval and early modern Europeans applied the name to the Berbers, North African Arabs, Muslim Iberians[3] and West Africans from Mali and Niger who had been absorbed into the Almoravid dynasty.[4]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors]Moors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
Moors artifacts and coat of arms show that not only they were Negritos but negroids. In Spanish moor is Moreno. Which meant black one it's means darker, not speaking particularly to a religion but in the skin and physical featuress sense.
Bro don't get black confused with negroid. The Afrocentrics believe there was a time when everyone was negroid. Black just describes people with a high and/or medium amount of melanin from my understanding which could include not only negroid people but also a good amount, if not most, arabs, some asians, aborigines, hispanics, Polynesians, etc.
Moors artifacts and coat of arms show that not only they were Negritos but negroids. In Spanish moor is Moreno. Which meant black one it's means darker, not speaking particularly to a religion but in the skin and physical featuress sense.
Moors artifacts and coat of arms show that not only they were Negritos but negroids. In Spanish moor is Moreno. Which meant black one it's means darker, not speaking particularly to a religion but in the skin and physical featuress sense.
Wow, you really like to drop into threads late, not read what came previous, and repeat stuff from page one.
Please take a look at post 177 where, with exactly three minutes of research, we found that a majority of depictions of moors DO NOT depict them as black.
They were depicted as all colors, including white.
Dutch painter Jan Mostaert's "Portrait of a Moor" painted in the 1520s.
The word "Moor" is derived from the Greek word Mauros which means Black, dark-skinned.
Except that no word "mauros" (Μαύρος) exists in Ancient Greek: there is μαυρουσιος which means an inhabitant of Mauretania (which is μαυρουσια).
There is μαυροω which means to hide, to weaken but nothing else.
Alas, the region Mauretania does NOT correspond to the actual Mauritania (where Black and Arabs are more or less the same) but to Morocco and part of Western Algeria which was NEVER inhabited by Blacks.
The Greek word for Black is "melas" from which it derives "melanin".
"Moor" means usually an Islamic Berber from Morocco and/or Algeria.
There might have been Blacks (whom Arabs didn't treat very well by the way) among Moors but they weren't certainly the majority.
Berbers are the indigenous people of North Africa and they are absolutely not Black (on the contrary, they might even pass for Europeans).
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Except that it is all crap.
The Renaissance happened through Italy re-discovering classical Greek and Roman sources, mostly though the Catholic Church and its monastic outposts. Most of what this article is claiming as Spanish via the Moors is actually Greco-Roman via Italy.
And again, the Moors weren't exclusively or even largely black, so the title of the article is drivel as well.
I just got done watching a special about the dark ages and in the reenactments they show the moors that invaded Spain and Italy as looking Mediterranean or Arab. I've always been under the belief that the moors started out more black than Arab looking from the paintings and other art work I've seen.
The Moors no doubt had blacks conscripted or voluntarily serving in their army who were Islamic by birth or conversion. But the Moors were not black people per se.
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Except that no word "mauros" (Μαύρος) exists in Ancient Greek:
The word is derived from Latin, not Greek. Mauro in Italian means "dark skinned" or "Moor". In Spanish, it mean "Moorish". The word is also used for the inhabitants of Mauritius.
The word is derived from Latin, not Greek. Mauro in Italian means "dark skinned" or "Moor". In Spanish, it mean "Moorish". The word is also used for the inhabitants of Mauritius.
"Mauro" in Italian doesn't mean "dark skinned", it means either a proper name or the ancient name of the inhabitants of the Roman region of Mauretania.
"Moor" is "Moro" in Italian but it doesn't mean "dark skinned", it means someone olive skinned or someone with brown hair.
The Moors were of African American stock. See European bigots and christian infidels hold a deep hate and been dividing people for hundreds of year. They have no history before 711 a.d. And paid taxes to roam the 7 seas.
The Moors were of African American stock. See European bigots and christian infidels hold a deep hate and been dividing people for hundreds of year. They have no history before 711 a.d. And paid taxes to roam the 7 seas.
This post doesn't even deserve a response it is so out there in left field that it is pure rubbish good for lining a trash can not based on any accurate facts. You do realize that African Americans are of mixed ancestry primarily West African with significant European and a minor Native American admixture that is unique to North America. The first recorded child of African ancestry born in America was born in St. Augustine, Florida on January 3, 1606 that is about 900 years after 711. You signed in to post this rubbish and label people bigots and infidels what a joke, you must have been looking in the mirror.
The Moors were of African American stock. See European bigots and christian infidels hold a deep hate and been dividing people for hundreds of year. They have no history before 711 a.d. And paid taxes to roam the 7 seas.
African Americans ey? You gotta lay off the medical marijuana, man.
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