One commonly cited influence is of the arrival of the four-string oud, which was introduced by the invading Moors in the 8th century.

Mosques in Sicily and Spain do not primarily reflect the architecture of Visigothic predecessors, but instead reflect the architecture introduced by the Muslim Moors.

The Moors conquered the region in AD 711 and introduced distillation, which led to the development of brandy and fortified wine.

# the traditional pot still which in Jerez is called an alquitara – introduced by the Moors -, made of copper and heated directly by a holm-oak wood fire using a discontinuous process ( loading and unloading ).

Today Pirenópolis is known all over Brazil for its popular festivals, especially the " Cavalhadas ", introduced in 1826, in which horsemen representing Moors and Christians recreate a battle fought by Charlemagne.

Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors, it was quickly adopted and carried to all Spanish-occupied lands.

Baraja cards are also prevalent in Morocco, where Spanish card games such as Tute or Ronda were introduced by Moors fleeing the persecutions following the Reconquista.

Genetic evidence has not supported an hypothesis that the Sorraia is related to the Barb horse, an African breed introduced to Iberia by the Moors.

Filigree work in silver was practised by the Moors of Spain during the Middle Ages with great skill, and was introduced by them and established all over the Peninsula, whence it was carried to the Spanish colonies in America.

The Moors introduced irrigation and the planting of oranges, peaches and almond orchards.

Feral cats, goats and three species of rats are among the most damaging species introduced to islands ( Moors & Atkinson 1984 ).

Letterboxes can now be found in other areas of the United Kingdom including the North York Moors and have spread all over the world.

In interior policy, Haidallah sought to improve relations between White Moors and Black Moors, among other things officially decreeing the ban of slavery for the first time in the country's history, but he neither tried nor achieved a radical break with the sectarian and discriminating policies of previous regimes.

Mosques have also been converted for use by other religions, notably in southern Spain, following the conquest of the Moors in 1492.

In 1113 Pisa and the Pope Paschal II set up, together with the count of Barcelona and other contingents from Provence and Italy ( Genoese excluded ), a war to free the Balearic Islands from the Moors: the queen and the king of Majorca were brought in chains to Tuscany.

Earlier Christians fighting the Moors, such as Pelayo, could plausibly be described as natives opposing foreign invasion and conquest ; however, by the time most parts of Muslim Iberia were ( re ) conquered by Christian forces, the Muslim population there was centuries old, and much of it undoubtedly composed of converted Iberians rather than migrants from other Muslim lands.

After three years of war against Urraca and other rival claimants to the throne of León, Count Henry himself died in 1112, leaving his widow Theresa to govern Portugal north of the Mondego during the minority of her infant son Afonso: south of the Mondego the Moors were still supreme.

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.

Among Williams ' other books was the best seller Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection ( 1968 ), a semi-fictionalized account of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

Ramon Berenguer campaigned against the Moors, extending his dominions as far west as Barbastro and imposing heavy tributes ( parias ) on other Moorish cities.

The Moors, under Al-Samh ibn Malik the governor-general of al-Andalus, sweeping up the Iberian peninsula, by 719 overran Septimania ; al-Samh set up his capital from 720 at Narbonne, which the Moors called " Arbuna ", offering the still largely Arianist Christian inhabitants generous terms and quickly pacifying the other cities.

During the Al-Andalus era in Spain, the Maghreb's inhabitants, Maghrebis, were known as " Moors "; the Muslim areas of Spain in those times were usually included in contemporary definitions of the Maghreb --- hence the use of ' Moor ' or ' Moors ' to describe the Muslim inhabitants of Spain by Christian and other Western sources.

The fertile soils and temperate climate attracted settlers from other countries, notably French people and cultural minorities such as Jews and some Moors.

In 1838, as King consort Ferdinand II, he decided to acquire the old monastery, all of the surrounding lands, the nearby Castle of the Moors and a few other estates in the area.

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.

As the plot is not woven around a single pivotal action, the inextricable maze of most cunningly contrived episodes are seen to be linked, first, with the quest of beautiful Angelica by love-smitten Orlando and the other enamoured knights, then with the defence of Albracca by Angelica's father, the King of Cathay, against the beleaguering Tartars, and, finally, with the Moors ' siege of Paris and their struggle with Charlemagne's army.

In the other towns, they are intermingled with the Moors.

Europe itself had been influenced by other cultures, such as with the Moors in Spain, and thus their food was already a mix of their world.

It is enacted that all servants [...] which shall be imported into this country either by sea or by land, whether Negroes, Moors North Africans, mulattoes or Indians who and whose parentage and native countries are not Christian at the time of their first purchase by some Christian [...] and all Indians, which shall be sold by our neighboring Indians, or any other trafficking with us for slaves, are hereby adjudged, deemed and taken to be slaves to all intents and purposes any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding .”

In Germany, he published " The Rights of Moors " ( among other works ) and taught philosophy at the University of Jena.

The Moorish sultan was received with much love and courtesy and there they handed over to him his son, who had been a hostage from the time of his capture, and as they stood there, there came about four hundred captives, of this who were in the enclosure, with the cross and a solemn procession singing the Te Deum Laudamus, and their highnesses dismounted to adore the Cross to the accompaniment of the tears and reverential devotion of the crowd, not least of the Cardinal and Master of Santiago and the Duke of Cadiz and all the other grandees and gentlemen and people who stood there, and there was no one who did not weep abundantly with pleasure giving thanks to Our Lord for what they saw, for they could not keep back the tears ; and the Moorish sultan and the Moors who were with him for their part could not disguise the sadness and pain they felt for the joy of the Christians, and certainly with much reason on account of their loss, for Granada is the most distinguished and chief thing in the world …

In the High Middle Ages, the fight against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula became linked to the fight of the whole of Christendom.

The horsemen of Central Asia, such as the Mongols, used this type of stirrup, as did the Islamic Bedouin and Moors of the Middle East and North Africa.

Irrigation channels were laid out all over the country by the Moors during the Middle Ages.

Ferndown Upper School is a co-educational comprehensive school for students aged between 13 and 19 years, with up to 320 pupils admitted each year from its feeder Middle schools in Ferndown, West Moors and Verwood.

* Seville Gate, of Carthaginian origins, has the remains of later Roman additions, and was modified in the Middle Ages by the Moors and the Christians.

The hillforts that stretched from the North York Moors to the Scottish highlands are evidence of a distinctive character emerging in northern Great Britain from the Middle Iron Age onwards.

Later peoples, notably the Moors and the Spanish, also established settlements on the shoreline during the Middle Ages and early modern period, including the heavily fortified and highly strategic port at Gibraltar, which fell to England in 1704.

During the Middle Ages, the area of Sines was occupied by the Visigoths and later sacked by Moors.

By the late Middle Ages, Christian kings had begun to wage war on the Moors and recapture some of the peninsula.

Now controlling the entire Middle Niger, Umar Tall moved against Timbuktu, only to be repulsed in 1863 by combined forces of Tuaregs, Moors, and Fulas.

They take inspiration from the historic African Moors who came from north and west Africa and conquered Iberia in the Middle Ages, and who were Muslims.