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Moors are not a single, distinct or self-defined people. [2] The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that the term had "no real ethnological value." [3] Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, Berbers, and Muslim Europeans. [4]
The origins of both the term Cagots (and Agotes, Capots, Caqueux, etc.) and the Cagots themselves are uncertain.It has been suggested that they were descendants of the Visigoths [1] [2] defeated by Clovis I at the Battle of Vouillé, [3] [4] and that the name Cagot derives from caas ("dog") and the Old Occitan for Goth gòt around the 6th century. [5]
It is a two-part series on the contribution the Moors made to Europe during their 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal ending in the 15th century. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 Saturday 5 November 2005, [ 2 ] and was filmed in the Spanish region of Andalusia , mostly in the cities of Granada , Cordoba and the Moroccan city of Fes .
The Barbary corsairs, Barbary pirates, Ottoman corsairs, [1] or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) [2] were mainly Muslim corsairs and privateers who operated from the largely independent Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. [3]
History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, With a Sketch of the Civilization Which They Achieved, and Imparted to Europe. Vol. II. Gorgias Press. ISBN 1-931956-94-4. Cowley, Robert and Parker, Geoffrey (Eds.). (2001). The Reader's Companion to Military History. Houghton Mifflin Books. ISBN 0-618-12742-9
Pair of Italian figures in painted wood, 18th century "Moor with Emerald Cluster" by Balthasar Permoser in the collection of the Grünes Gewölbe. Blackamoor is a type of figure and visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African descent, usually in clothing that suggests high status.
The English name "Normans" comes from the French words Normans/Normanz, plural of Normant, [17] modern French normand, which is itself borrowed from Old Low Franconian Nortmann "Northman" [18] or directly from Old Norse Norðmaðr, Latinized variously as Nortmannus, Normannus, or Nordmannus (recorded in Medieval Latin, 9th century) to mean "Norseman, Viking".
The situation of the Moriscos in the Canary Islands was different from on continental Europe. They were not the descendants of Iberian Muslims but were Muslim Moors taken from Northern Africa in Christian raids or prisoners taken during the attacks of the Barbary pirates against the islands. In the Canary Islands, they were held as slaves or ...