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The precise origin of the Moor's head as a heraldic symbol is a subject of controversy. The most likely explanation is that it is derived from the heraldic war flag of the Reconquista depicting the Cross of Alcoraz, symbolizing Peter I of Aragon and Pamplona's victory over the "Moorish" kings of the Taifa of Zaragoza in the Battle of Alcoraz in 1096.
On May 8, 2010, a Moroccan flag with a size of 60,409.78 square metres (650,000 sq ft; 14.9 acres), weighing 20,000 kilograms (22 short tons), was set in Dakhla, a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. It was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest flag ever draped. [8]
Ibn Hazm, a Moorish polymath who was considered one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim World and is widely acknowledged as the father of Comparative religion studies. Ibn Idhari, a Moorish historian who was the author of (Al-Bayan al-Mughrib) an important medieval text on the history of the Maghreb and Iberia.
According to some, the flag derives from Alcoraz's victory of 1096, is linked to the Crown of Aragon, and represents the Spanish Reconquista against the Moors who occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula. It is composed of the cross of St. George, also a symbol of the Crusaders fighting at the same time in the Holy Land, and the four severed ...
The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
Jun. 14—Police stopped to help stranded motorists and came face-to-face with a family of Moorish Sovereign Citizens, some of whom fought with officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
According to legend, George appeared on the field of battle at Alcoraz. The heads of four decapitated Moors found on the battlefield were added to George's familiar emblem, creating the Cross of Alcoraz (the basis for the Flag of Sardinia). Argent, cross of gules with four heads of Moorish kings in the quarters. Known as the "Cross of Alcoraz ...
Flag Date Use Description 1912-1956: Flag of The French Third Republic, the French State, the Provisional Government of the French Republic and The French Fourth Republic: A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 3:2). 1942-1944: Flag of Free France: A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red with The Cross of Lorraine ...