--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.

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.

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.

One of the most unique spots in Spain, this unbelievable village is a can’t-miss stop on any southern Spain itinerary or road ...

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 ...

Land of the Moors . By Angela Corrias Source:Global Times Published: ... Although the Moorish presence in Spain ended in the late 15th century with the Christian Reconquest, ...

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 ...

It is the Spanish workers and peasants, on the one hand, and the Moors, on the other, who are paying with their lives for this treachery. This is the price of Popular Front Government in Spain and in ...

But between the 13th and 15th centuries, the Catholics in the north slowly started to take land from the Moors, and by 1492 the entire country was ruled by one Christian crown.

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.

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 ...