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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] Moor (n.) "North African, Berber," late 14c., from Old French More, from Medieval Latin Morus, from Latin Maurus "inhabitant of Mauretania" (northwest Africa, a region now corresponding to northern Algeria and Morocco), from Greek Mauros, perhaps a native name, or else cognate with mauros "black" (but this adjective only appears in late Greek and may as well be from the people's name as the reverse). Being a dark people in relation to Europeans, their name in the Middle Ages was a synonym for "Negro;" later (16c.-17c.) used indiscriminately of Muslims (Persians, Arabs, etc.) but especially those in India. ____________________________________________________ [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: were the original moors black?[/QUOTE]the problem here is the word "original" You are applying it to people that never called themselves "moors" So it is not who were the original moors, it's who started calling people that [IMG]http://68.media.tumblr.com/9069d7808a674943771dbdd697e115c3/tumblr_ms7g2u7D2X1ssmm02o1_500.jpg[/IMG] A number of sources call this painting Four Studies of the head of a Negro https://books.google.com/books?id=BcVSqTA_cLcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rubens+%22William+Anne+Capell%22+studies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFiP_ovJnUAhVKSiYKH Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens By Peter C. Sutton, Marjorie E. Wieseman, Nico van Hout Fig 1 ________________________________ I'm not sure if the above oil sketch was ever titled by Rubens and if somebody titled it later what the first title of it was. You have to do deeper research. Jet black moors who are identified as moors for certain are easily found in Europeans coats of arms. However jet black moors are not the only people that the Europeans have called moors. Even with the term "black" the Europeans would apply to both dark skinned Africans as well as sometimes to other Europeans who were only a light tint of brown However those whole subject, who were the Moors has been dealt with in many many old threads, some I was in also also [/qb][/QUOTE]Mohr, moor, black man and negro means the same thing "mohr: moor, neger, swart" Handwoordenboek der Hoog- en Nederduitsche talen By Johann Friedrich Fleischauer 1834 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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