Muslims who lived in the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta in the Middle Ages.
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Examples for "moors "
1 Soon they cleared the churchtown and entered the darkness of the moors .
2 The flying horizons of the moors had slipped away into the darkness.
3 The old Norfolk jacket had walked the moors that morning with Jane.
4 Afterwards you took her back across the moors to catch the wagonette.
5 The Arkwright house belonged in a Gothic novel, brooding over windswept moors .
1 In 1609 all the Moriscoes were ordered to depart from the Peninsula within three days.
2 What is a poor crippled jester compared with a powerful scullery maid or an army of heathen Moriscoes ?
3 The Moriscoes were the back-bone of the industrial population, not only in trade and manufactures, but also in agriculture.
4 His success in subduing the Moriscoes naturally designated him, in spite of his extreme youth, for this high command.
5 Lundy was then seized by the King, but forty years later the Moriscoes once more gained possession of it.
1 To the Moriscos the suffering was personal; to Spain it was national.
2 At that time we were quartered in Seville, to keep guard on the suspected Moriscos .
3 The weak point in the organization of the Moriscos lay in the character of their king.
4 That of the Moriscos was not so inhuman in its consequences, but it was serious enough.
5 Anales, año 1487.-Marmol ,Rebelionde Moriscos , lib.
6 The capture of this place, which soon followed, roused the enthusiasm of the Moriscos to the highest pitch.
7 The dispersal of the Moriscos of Granada, while cruel to them, proved of the greatest benefit to Spain.
8 In 1560 the Moriscos were forbidden to employ African slaves, for fear that they might make infidels of them.
9 The duke of Gandia in Spain owned estates peopled by 60,000 Moriscos and yielding a princely revenue.
10 Throughout the whole of Spain the poor Moriscos now began to be systematically pillaged and persecuted by whoever chose to do it.
11 The Moriscos , as they were called, struggled desperately from 1568 to 1570 to reëstablish the independence of Granada.
12 As a result many of the Moors emigrated to Africa; the rest became Moriscos - that is to say, Christians in religion, although Moors in blood.
13 Here he entered the military service, and held a captain's commission in the war against the Moriscos , and, afterwards, under Don John of Austria.
14 [Footnote: Lea, The Moriscos of Spain, chaps.
15 90.-Marmol ,Rebelionde Moriscos , lib.
16 The rebellion of the Moriscos , due to the oppressive edicts of Philip II., as stated in the preceding tale, was marked by numerous interesting events.
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