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Definitions of moors in various dictionaries:
noun - one of the Muslim people of north Africa
noun - open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
verb - secure in or as if in a berth or dock
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| Heather lands |
| 'Wuthering Heights' setting |
| Ties up |
| Alhambra's builders |
| Makes fast |
| Peatlands |
| Secures with cables |
| Secures in the harbor |
| Othello's people |
| British Isles wastelands |
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| In 1212 victory at Las Navas de Tolosa ended Alfonso VIII's 40 years of warfare against them |
| A golden age of Jewish culture began in the 10th C. under these people who ruled Spain |
| The Morisca, a popular dance of the 15th century, originated with this group in Spain |
| In 1492 Spain took Grenada, the last kingdom of these people in Spain |
| The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain |
| This group's nearly 800-year rule of Spain ended when Ferdinand took Granada in 1492 |
| We can wend our way through the Alfama, an area largely built by these people who ruled Lisbon from 714 to 1147 |
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| a member of a NW African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century. |
| Plural form of moor. |
| Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moor. |
| A tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather. |
| Make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor. |
| A member of a north-western African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century. |
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| The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the Berber autochthones of the Maghreb. The name was later also applied to Arabs.Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people, and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that "The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value." Medieval and early modern Europeans variously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, and Muslim Europeans.The term has also been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims in general, especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa. During the colonial era, the Portuguese introduced the names "Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors" in Sri Lanka, and the Bengali Muslims were also called Moors. In the Philippines, the longstanding Muslim community, which predates the arrival of the Spanish, now self-identif |