1) Moors. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Moors, nomadic people of the northern shores of Africa, originally the inhabitants of Mauretania. They were chiefly of Berber and Arab stock. In the 8th cent. the...
2) Bolton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bolton, or Bolton-le-Moors (bol´tn-l-moorz) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 143,960) and metropolitan district, NW England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area. Since...
3) Moriscos. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Moriscos, (moris´koz) (KEY) [Span.,=Moorish], Moors converted to Christianity after the Christian reconquest (11th-15th cent.) of Spain. The Moors who had become...
4) Moros. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Moros, (mor´oz) (KEY) [Span.,=Moors], group of Muslim natives, numbering about 3.8 million, of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, and Palawan in the Philippines and...
5) Mudejar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mudéjar, (mootha´har) (KEY) , name given to the Moors who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquest but were not converted to Christianity, and to the style...
6) Ourique. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Beja dist., S Portugal, in Baixo Alentejo. Although tradition says Alfonso I defeated the Moors there in 1139, the battle of Ourique was actually fought at some undetermined...
7) Peter Gonzalez, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Saint, (gonza´lis) (KEY) , 1190-1246, Spanish Dominican priest. He worked first among the Moors, then among the mariners of NW Spain. As a patron of sailors he acquired...
8) Albacete. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(1990 pop. 129,002), capital of Albacete prov., SE Spain, in Castile-La Mancha. Under the Moors, Albacete was a part of the Kingdom of Murcia, with which it was incorporated...
9) Mauretania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., ancient district of Africa in Roman times. In a vague sense it meant only "the land of the Moors" and lay W of Numidia, but more specifically it usually included...
10) Aviz. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in Alto Alentejo. The Castilian order of the Knights of Calatrava assisted in driving the Moors from Portugal and in 1166 settled at Evora. Alfonso II granted (1211)...
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