--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.

From roughly 711 to 1492, the Moors, or North African Muslims, controlled parts — sometimes large parts — of Spain. The mosques and fortresses that remain are some of the country's most ...

Pedro Serrano, president of the Moors and Christians organising festival in Elda, said despite the black face make-up, the festival was “inclusive”. “We welcome all parts of the community.

Jumilla’s Moors and Christians Festival ended with the traditional castle capture. Find out more about the event and what ...

This week’s features in Spain’s civil war were hurry-up efforts by South Rebel General Franco to take Madrid with his Moors, and the apparent inability of North Rebel General Mola to save from ...

Eventually, the Moors were expelled from Spain. The Alhambra, a Moorish palace and fortress in Granada, Spain, was described by poets as a "pearl set in emeralds." Photograph by Joe Scherschel ...

Exploring the country’s Arab influence is an impossibly romantic journey, involving palaces with intricate geometric designs, castles and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.

I’m lucky to be alive, all right, because you can imagine how those Moors felt about enemy airmen. “I got a clubbing right away from the first who reached me, and I could not very well blame them.

Thousands of Jews who stayed in Spain converted to Christianity. Over the next decades and beyond, many Conversos left Iberia, heading not only to North Africa, Italy, and the eastern ...