The Moors were Muslims who invaded Spain and part of France in 711 AD, in the very early days of Islam. This force of Berbers from North Africa and Syrians from Damascus created an exquisite ...

In the following year Spain and France combined against the Moors. Abdel Krim surrendered in 1926 and was ... The majority of the tribesmen eke out an existence tilling small lots of land in the most ...

Like scores of other towns in southeastern Spain, Elda marks the battles of the past with a very 21st century festival. The four-day pageant in Elda involves groups divided into Moors and ...

noted that during the eighth century there was no land “more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a rich African civilization which took shape in Spain”. The Moors ...

While Cordoba was the first of the great Moorish cities in Spain, the Moors' 800-year presence left its mark extensively across the country. They may have left five centuries ago, but the legacy ...

A group said to be close to bin Laden's al-Qaeda, the Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri, sent a message to a London-based Arabic newspaper saying: "This is part of settling old accounts with Spain ...

Arab influence in Spain dates to the early 700s ... continent — the North African homeland of the original Moors, and the land to which many of the expelled Jews and Muslims fled — slowly ...

Spain is a land of contrasts and a time-worn patchwork of cultures! Over the course of its long history, the peninsula was ...

Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively the reign of Muslims in Spain, Europeans of African descent, and others for centuries. Derived from the Latin word “Maurus ...