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Wikipedia: The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Muslim (and earlier non-Muslim) people of Berber, Black African and Arab descent from North Africa, some of whom came to conquer and occupy the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. The North Africans termed it Al Andalus, comprising most of what is now Spain and Portugal. Moors are not distinct or self-defined people, but the appellation was applied by medieval and early modern Europeans primarily to Berbers, but also Arabs, and Muslim Iberians and West Africans.
![[Eastern Hemisphere in 476 CE, showing the Moorish kingdoms after the fall of Rome]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/East_Hem_476ad_s.jpg "Eastern Hemisphere in 476 CE, showing the Moorish kingdoms after the fall of Rome")
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![[Reconstruction of costumes of Moorish nobility from a German book published in 1880]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PLATE1BX_s.jpg "Reconstruction of costumes of Moorish nobility from a German book published in 1880")
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