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Encyclopedia > Moros y cristianos (disambiguation)

Moros y cristianos, ("Moors and Christians" in Spanish) may stand for: Moors is used in this article to describe the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. Origins of the Name Juba II king of Mauretania The name derives from the ancient Berber... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ...


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Moros - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Moros (184 words)
Converted to Islam in the 15th century, the Moros were traditionally sea traders, fishermen, pirates, and slave traders.
In the early 1970s, the Moros formed the Moro National Liberation Front, a guerrilla organization demanding a separate Moro state.
In January 1995 an agreement was reached with the Philippine government to establish a Moro independent autonomous government provisional on congressional approval.
Moros y cristianos (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (226 words)
Moros y cristianos, ("Moors and Christians" in Spanish) may stand for:
This game must have come to the Philippines after the conquest by the Spanish after 1521, where the Moros are the Asian Muslims who came to Southeast Asia a century before the Spanish exploration of the New World.
A Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican recipe for fl beans (or red beans) and rice, presumably because the fl beans represent the Moors (moros) and the white rice represents the Christians (cristianos) - an allusion to when the Moors occupied the Iberian Peninsula.
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