The influences can be seen with the prison mining set of Unisen minors ( Fleischer Studios ), Pincho and other creatures dancing with a mop ( Disney's Fantasia ) and the reference to Pinocchio when Olga is given new life.

There are Spanish girls who look like Tommy Momoyama, brunettes with a Moorish hint of the Orient in their faces ; ;

The Almoravid power was at its height at Yusuf's death, and the Moorish empire then included all North-West Africa as far as Algiers, and all of Iberia south of the Tagus, with the east coast as far as the mouth of the Ebro, and included the Balearic Islands.

Hitherto, his father Sancho I and his grandfather Afonso I were mostly concerned with military issues either against the neighbouring Kingdom of Castile or against the Moorish lands in the south.

Around this time, El Cid, with a combined Christian and Moorish army, began maneuvering in order to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

King Ferdinand of Aragon gave Innocent 100 Moorish slaves who shared them out with favoured Cardinals.

In the context of the relative isolation of the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe, and the contact with Moorish culture, geographical and cultural differences implied the use of military strategies, tactics and equipment that were markedly different from those found in the rest of western Europe during this period.

The papacy and the influential Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy not only justified the acts of war but actively encouraged Christian knights to seek armed confrontation with Moorish " infidels " instead of with each other.

The rest of the plateau comprises a number of Moorish palaces, enclosed by a fortified wall, with thirteen towers, some defensive and some providing vistas for the inhabitants.

* 1212 — The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia sees the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, mainly from 1230 – 1248, with the defeat of Moorish forces.

Basiliscus escapes with his surviving fleet to Sicily, harassed all the way by Moorish pirates.

He is appointed to governor ( Exarch ) and pacifies with success the Moorish tribes.

Another related term is moresque, meaning " Moorish "; Randle Cotgrave's A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues of 1611 defines this as: " a rude or anticke painting, or carving, wherin the feet and tayles of beasts, & c, are intermingled with, or made to resemble, a kind of wild leaves, & c ." and " arabesque ", in its earliest use cited in the OED ( but as a French word ), as " Rebeske work ; a small and curious flourishing ".

The Almohad influence on architecture is preserved in the area of the city called the Albaicín with its fine examples of Moorish and Morisco construction.

The religious difference of the Moorish Muslims led to a centuries-long conflict with the Christian kingdoms of Europe called the Reconquista.

Legend says that Mauregato was Alphonse I's bastard son with a Moorish woman, and attributes to him the tribute of a hundred maidens.

In the story, a married noble man with two children chastises his Moorish servant, who vows revenge.

* Santa Clara monastery, Gothic and Baroque monument where is located a Museum with the Moorish palace's remains from the 13th century, called Alcázar Seguir.

* San Juan de Dios church-museum, Baroque and Rococo circular church with the remains of the Moorish palace mosque from the 12th century in the basament, called Alcázar Nasir.

Following the Moorish conquest of peninsular Spain, Minorca was annexed to the Caliphate of Córdoba in 903 and given the Arabicized name of Manûrqa, with many Moors emigrating to the island.

James built and consecrated the Cathedral of Lleida, which was constructed in a style transitional between Romanesque and Gothic with little influence from Moorish styles.

In Spain, barbecued meat pinchos previously marinated in a spicy garlic and red pepper mixture are known as Pinchos morunos ( Moorish skewers ).

In 1999, a small sample of the blade underwent metallurgical analysis which confirmed that the blade was made in Moorish Córdoba in the eleventh century and contained amounts of Damascus steel.

With the increase in contact between Christians and Muslims through the Crusades and the Moorish occupation of Spain, various magical ideas and concepts originating in the Islamic world made their way into European grimoires.

As before independence, the sedentary lifestyle of these groups made them more receptive to and useful in state formation, and they quickly came to dominate state administration, even if the Moorish groups built up by the French remained in charge of the political process.

The presence of a large number of Sahrawi nationalists among the country's dominant Moorish population made the Mauritanian government's position yet more fragile, and thousands of Mauritanian Sahrawis defected to Polisario.

By contrast, the Dominican order, a teaching order founded by St Dominic in 1215, to propagate and defend Christian doctrine, placed more emphasis on the use of reason and made extensive use of the new Aristotelian sources derived from the East, and Moorish Spain.

The people of Moorish Spain often made casseroles of rice, fish and spices for family gatherings and religious feasts, thus establishing the custom of eating rice in Spain.

All this made possible the emergence of a sparsely populated and ill-organized area that isolated the Asturian kingdom from the Moorish assaults and allowed its progressive strengthening.

The northernmost part of Catalonia was briefly occupied by the Moorish ( Muslim-ruled ) al-Andalus in the VIII century, but after the defeat of Emir Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqiwas's troops at Tours in 732 local Visigoths regained autonomy, though they voluntarily made themselves tributary to the emerging Frankish kingdom, which gave the grouping of these local powers the generic name Marca Hispanica or Spanish March.

The seating in the choir is made of parquetry of fine woods, onyx and ivory of Moorish design.

It is alleged that to provoke a rebellion which would give him a proper reason to expel the Moriscos of southern Spain, Philip II broke his promises previously made in treaties made with the Muslims and issued an edict requiring Moriscos to give up their Arabic names, their traditional Moorish dress, and even prohibited the speaking of Arabic and Berber.

Even as King Afonso Henriques advanced to the south, the Christian Reconquista never made it into Algarve and Alentejo, and remained under Moorish control.

During the Arab period it was known as Lurka and the old part of the town, made up of narrow streets and alley-ways, achieved its present shape under Moorish rule.

From prehistoric cultures, to its Pre-Roman civilizations ( such as the Lusitanians, the Gallaeci, the Celtici, and the Cynetes, amongst others ), passing through its contacts with the Phoenician-Carthaginian world, the Roman period ( see Hispania, Lusitania and Gallaecia ), the Germanic invasions and consequent settlement of the Suevi and Buri ( see Suebic Kingdom of Galicia ) and the Visigoth ( see Visigothic Kingdom ), and, finally, the Moorish Umayyad invasion of Hispania and the subsequent Reconquista, all have made an imprint on the country's culture and history.

During the course of the retreat, the Moorish King lost his crown ( made of silver and adorned with leaf in sparkling metal ), after leaving it along a hedge-row while battling the defenders.

Together with the Regulares ( Moorish colonial troops ), the Legion made up the Spanish Army of Africa.

Recesses in the walls were divided by wooden arcades of the Moorish onion shape and there were many beautiful objects made of brass, as well as other rarities displayed in a glass-fronted cupboard.

In 1484 a German traveller mentioned vessels " which are made by the Moorish potters ".

In England, the Glastonbury chair made an X-shape by crossing the front and back legs, while in Spain X-chairs were inlaid with ivory and metals in the Moorish designs.

Moroccan style is a new trend in decoration which takes its roots from Moorish architecture, it has been made popular by the vogue of Riads renovation in Marrakech.

Sambari ( 137, 20 ) says that a new pact was made at the instance of letters from a Moorish king of Barcelona ( 1309 ), and the synagogues were reopened ; but this probably refers only to the reissuing of the Pact of Omar.

At the beginning of the 10th century the Moorish Caliph, Abd ur Rahman the Third, made a special trip from Cordoba to collect over a hundred medicinal herbs from the slopes of Montgó.

While the name of the famous house of pleasure in the game " Alhambra " comes from a former pleasure-castle of the Moorish Nasriden royalty of Granada, named for the red bricks from which it is made.