It is perhaps in Spain that the personification of the black as demonic threat first entered the consciousness of medieval Christian Europe. In this image the black Moor takes center stage in a ...

Elda, Spain – Wearing a fake plastic animal ... Aroca spend two hours a day transforming 15 men into Moors with red, white and black faces. Elda, like scores of other towns in southeastern ...

The 19th-century African-American actor Ira Aldridge, depicted here in the title role, was the first black ... of Moors has been used to describe alternatively the reign of Muslims in Spain ...

The Arabic numeral system was transmitted to Europe via Spain. And while the rest of Europe in the 14th century was dying in large numbers of the black death, or plague, the Moors opened their ...

Black Moors dominated and civilized Spain for nearly 800 years. Vicente Guerrero, a Black man, was one of the great heroes of Mexico, and briefly served as its president. In Spanish legend ...

Lively account of how the Moors created the culture of Al ... And alus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain by Jason Webster (Black Swan, £7.99 ). In the boisterous company of a Moroccan ...

By 1492, the Moors were defeated in the Reconquista, making Spain Catholic once again. Over the next decades, their population was driven out completely by the gruesome Spanish and Portuguese ...

Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted ...

Prof. Philippsen calculates that the Moors carried out of Spain, in gold and silver coin and in movable valuables, property to the amount of about three and a half millions of ducats. And as the ...