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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 ...
Party with controversy: Spain’s festival of Moors and Christians Some see the annual festival marking the reconquest of Iberia from Arab rulers as racist and disrespectful.
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.
The Moors, along with the Romans, were the invading populations that exerted control, in one form or another, over Spain for the longest period. The Iberian Peninsula was first conquered by the ...
The person who operates the Twitter account claims to be an Islamic fundamentalist living in Spain, empathizing with violent extremists and longing for the days, more than six centuries ago, when ...
Discover the dramatic history of al-Andalus, from its rapid rise to its eventual fall.
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The statement serves as a lexical axe on the impact of Islam in Spain and its presence in the Iberian peninsula, which spanned over 800 years.
It was founded by the Moors, Muslim settlers from North Africa who rules over much of the Iberian Peninsula, which Spain founds itself in, for several long centuries-you know, the same guys who ...
A far-right movement in Spain that is opposed to Muslims and immigrants has found a home on Twitter.
A far-right movement in Spain that is opposed to Muslims and immigrants has found a home on Twitter ...