In fact, the name Moros ( the Spanish word for " Moors ") was given to the Muslim inhabitants by the Spanish.

Matamoros ( Spanish: " Killer of Moors ") – the original Spanish mercenary – was created by Francesco Andreini.

sa ), rather than the standard Catalan " el " and " la ", common to other Romance languages ( e. g. Spanish el, la, Italian il, la ), corresponding to a form which was historically used along the Costa Brava of Catalonia, from where it is supposed that the islands were repopulated after being conquered from the Moors.

: The first documented European voyage to the Americas by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus ; the end of the Reconquista, with the final expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula ; the Spanish government expels the Jews.

During the presence of Moors in Hispania, Spanish was sometimes given the name cristiano to distinguish it from the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

Raymond's third wife was Elvira, the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile, the Spanish king who also campaigned furiously against the Moors.

During the Spanish Reconquista, there were periods when the Christian kings were more militarily powerful than the Moors, but lacked the population to settle and defend the conquered territories.

It was awarded to William of Gellone, a grandson of Charles Martel and therefore a cousin of Charlemagne, around the year 800 for his services in the wars against the Moors and reconquering southern France and the Spanish March.

One of the best examples of the Moors ' lasting impact on Spanish architecture is the Alcázar of Seville.

( Morisco became the common term used for descendents of Iberian Moors in Spanish and Portuguese territory, regardless of their adherence to Christianity.

( The Spaniards call the Sultan of Sulu's army as Moros, Spanish for " Moors ", the word Moor was in turn derived from Morocco a North African country adjacent to Spain, and peopled by Muslims which conquered and ruled Spain for 800 years )

Christian Mozarabs from Al-Andalus had come north to populate the deserted frontier lands, and the traditional view of Spanish history has been that they brought with them the remains of Visigothic and Classical culture, and a new ideology of Reconquista, a crusade against the Moors.

Lázaro leaves his wife and child with the priest, in Toledo, and joins the Spanish army in their campaign against the Moors.

The Spanish proselytized many natives, and labelled those who remained Muslims as Moro, a derogatory term recalling the Moors, an Islamic people of North Africa who occupied Spain for 800 years.

The Guatemalan Baile de la Conquista (" Dance of the Conquest ") is a traditional dance borrowing its structure from the Spanish Baile de los Moros (" Dance of the Moors ") which commemorates the expulsion of the Moors from Spain.

The Moors introduced the daf and other Middle Eastern musical instruments to Spain, and the Spanish adapted and promoted the daf and other musical instruments ( such as the guitar ) in medieval Europe.

Blue blood is a translation of the Spanish phrase sangre azul, which described the Spanish royal family and other high nobility who claimed to be of Visigothic descent, in contrast to the Moors.

The Ottoman Sultan, Beyazid II-whose navy had helped Spanish Moors and Sephardic Jews expelled by the Spanish Inquisition in 1492-supplied Egypt with Mediterranean-type war galleys manned by Greek sailors and Ottoman volunteers, mainly Turkish mercenaries and freebooters.

Spanish Moors and Muslim adventurers from the Levant, of whom the most successful were Hızır and Oruç, natives of Mitylene, increased the amount of raids around the turn of the 15th century.

Most of the biosecurity concerns in synthetic biology, however, focused on the role of DNA synthesis and the risk of producing genetic material of lethal viruses ( e. g. 1918 Spanish flu, polio ) in the lab.

The beginnings of the Spanish musical were focused on romantic Spanish archetypes: Andalusian villages and landscapes, gypsys, " bandoleros ", and copla and other popular folk songs included in story development.

Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors largely ignored St. Vincent and the smaller Grenadine islands nearby, but focused instead on the pursuit of gold and silver in Central and South America.

On January 10, 2012, The Residents released " Coochie Brake "; it focused on an ambient, slightly ethnic sound, with lyrics in Spanish spoken by, apparently, a new singer.

This parallel course focused less on Greek and Latin, instead focusing on English, French, Spanish, chemistry, economics, etc.

The first decisions of these goals focused Lannes: Attack partly Spanish right flank ( Tudela ), recognize and deepen the center ( mountains to the shore of Queiles Urzante ), for which he left in reserve divisions and Granjean Morlot, and third: throw the mass of his cavalry against Cascante to prevent General Lapeña Tudela corriese to their lines and to allow time to reach the Division Lagrange thought to face the Andalusians.

Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross were Spanish mystics and reformers of the Carmelite Order whose ministry focused on interior conversion to Christ, the deepening of prayer and commitment to God's will.

* Barataria, a Spanish language academic journal in Latin America focused on children's literature

By the beginning of the 5th century, the Spanish poet Prudentius had written " From the Heart of the Father " where the ninth stanza focused on the Nativity and portrayed Jesus as the creator of the universe.

By the 1840s, colonial interests other than Spanish focused over western Mindanao, particularly the territories under the Sulu sultanate.

The market, which has focused historically on fruits and vegetables, has in recent years added stalls dealing with the fine food retail market, including some of the market's most famous traders Artisan Bakers DeGustibus, Furness Fish & Game Supplies, Peter Gott and Sillfield Farm, and the Spanish company Brindisa.

Influenced by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Great Depression that followed, and the Spanish Civil War, it focused on depression and isolation, reflected in the dark nature of both the set and costumes.

Largely arranged by Carla Bley, their music was very experimental, exploring the realms of free jazz and political music at the same time ; the first album focused specifically on the Spanish Civil War.

While the Spanish Crown attempted to regulate the flow of all individuals into the Americas they focused specifically on insuring only true Christians were granted access.

Since Laforet's death on 28 February 2004, renewed critical attention has focused on her lesser known works ( essentially everything published after Nada ), yet undoubtedly the public will always think of Nada when Laforet's name is mentioned, as evidenced by the Spanish phrase, Después de Nada, nada, or After Nada, nothing.

Some focused their criticism on the physical characteristics of the cast, arguing that it should have been chosen mainly from actors of Southern European ancestries ( i. e. Spanish and Italian, according to the demographic composition of Uruguay ), instead of Northern European.

Spinola and the Spanish army were focused on the Netherlands, and the war seemed to be going in Spain's favor.

Within the parishes, the Spanish eventually focused their efforts on converting the natives to Catholicism.

Their songs, which are sung in Spanish, are focused on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, and politics.

The sandy, marshy soils of the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula discouraged the Spanish, and later Mexican governments from establishing a preeminent town there, who focused their pueblo settlement efforts in the Pueblo of San José with its extremely fertile land.

David Hurst Thomas has focused on Spanish period mission archaeology on St. Catherine's Island.

This period of reform and ' enlightened despotism ' focused on modernising the Spanish government, infrastructure, and institutions, culminating in the rule of King Charles III and the work of his minister, José Moñino, count of Floridablanca.

Having crushed the ringleaders who had led the Rebellion of 1768, the French uprising against Governor Antonio de Ulloa, ( January 12, 1716 – July 3, 1795 ) and Spanish rule, O ' Reilly sent most of his troops back to Cuba, and focused his attention on administratively getting Louisiana back on its feet, and stabilizing the food supply.