Crossword clues for moors
moors
- Iberian invaders
- Heather-covered lands
- Ties up, in a way
- Ties up, as to a pier
- Ties up to a pier
- Ties up in the harbor
- Ties up at a pier
- Ties to the dock
- Spanish invaders
- Ship securers
- Secures, as a boat
- Secures in the harbor
- Secures firmly, as a boat to a pier
- Othello's kinspeople
- Othello's kin
- Othello et al
- Othello and his countrymen
- North Africans disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question
- Keeps from drifting
- Historic figures disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question
- Heathcliff's hangout
- Heath-covered wastelands
- English wastelands
- Eighth-century conquerors of Iberia
- Brontë-esque setting
- British Isles wastelands
- Bleak landscapes
- "Wuthering Heights" scenery
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" milieu
- Othello's people
- Heather lands
- "Wuthering Heights" setting
- Ties up at the dock
- Makes fast
- Heaths for Heathcliff
- Ties up in a slip
- British wastelands
- Heathcliff's milieu
- Alhambra builders
- Setting of some Hardy novels
- Anchors
- Invaders of Spain
- Othello's kinsmen
- Secures, in a way
- Moroccan natives
- Drops anchor
- More than one fell in love with men in the script
- Open heathlands
- Low rains emptied uplands
- Ties down
- Marshy tracts
- Othello and kin
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" setting
- Secures, as a ship
- Secures with cables
- Secures a ship
- Peaty wastelands
- Othello and others
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
The term Moors refers to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages, who initially were Berber and Arab peoples of North African descent.
Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people, and mainstream scholars observed in 1911 that "The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value." Medieval and early modern Europeans variously applied the name to Arabs, Berber North Africans and Muslim Europeans. The term has also been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims in general, especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa. During the colonial era, the Portuguese introduced the names " Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors" in Sri Lanka, and the Bengali Muslims were also called Moors.
In 711 the Moors invaded the Iberian Peninsula from North Africa and called the territory Al-Andalus, which at its peak included most of modern-day Spain, Portugal, and Septimania. The Moors occupied Mazara on Sicily in 827, developing it as a port, and they eventually consolidated the rest of the island and some of southern Italy. Differences in religion and culture led to a centuries-long conflict with the Christian kingdoms of Europe, which tried to reclaim control of Muslim areas; this conflict was referred to as the Reconquista. In 1224 the Muslims were expelled from Sicily to the settlement of Lucera, which was destroyed by European Christians in 1300. The fall of Granada in 1492 marked the end of Muslim rule in Iberia, although a Muslim minority persisted until their expulsion in 1609.
Usage examples of "moors".
The sole remaining state of those which the invaders, finding independent, conquered one by one, is the little Pyrenean Republic of Andorra, still enjoying privileges granted to it for its brave defence against the Moors, which made it the high-water mark of their dominion.
Further east a distinct race of pirates flourished, including Turks and Greeks and ruffians from every shore, but they were not Moors, of whom the Salli rover was the type.
Europeans, if, indeed, they possessed any, in the eyes of the Moors, and the slaves up country received worse treatment than before.
So little did the Moors understand the position of things abroad, that at one time they made war upon Gibraltar, while expressing the warmest friendship for England, who then possessed it.
The piracy days of the Moors have long passed, but they only ceased at the last moment they could do so with grace, before the introduction of steamships.
Yet for many years more the nations of Europe continued the tribute wherewith the rapacity of the Moors was appeased, and to the United States belongs the honour of first refusing this disgraceful payment.
They address the Moors with a villainous, cringing look which makes the sons of Ishmael savage, for they know it is only feigned.
Instead of increased relations between Moors and foreigners tending to friendship, the average foreign settler or tourist is far too bigoted and narrow-minded to see any good in the native, much less to acknowledge his superiority on certain points.
The claims most frequently made against Moors by foreign countries are for debt, claims which afford the greatest scope for controversy and the widest loophole for abuse.
Were not this thing of everyday occurrence in Morocco, and had I not examined scores of such papers, the way in which the ignorant Moors fall into such traps would seem incredible.
It is usual to blame the Jews for it all, and though the business lies mostly in their hands, it must not be overlooked that many foreigners engage in it, and, though indirectly, some Moors also.
Oriental, and the rulers of Morocco would hardly be Moors if they resisted the temptation to procrastinate, for who knows what may happen while they delay?
The effect, however, on the Moors, among whom the affair grew more grave each time it was recited, was out of all proportion to the real importance of the incident, which otherwise might have passed unnoticed.
One of the first things which strikes the visitor to this country is the universality of the slipper as foot-gear, at least, so far as the Moors are concerned.
In this way only do the Moors shine as politicians, unless prevarication and procrastination be included, Machiavellian arts in which they easily excel.