moorish

For exmaple, there are definitely regions that show early adoption of arabic culinary influence eg, moorish spain.

A moorish kingdom would not have had the same approach to the new world, even if someone had discovered it.

Consider that if the iberian cavalry had been superior to moorish cavalry, the Reconquista would not have taken ~750 years.

But there’s still a lot of influence in the Andalusia region and even some crypto-moorish people may have survived to today.

Muslim rulers of Moorish Spain is very different than the Taliban of Afghanistan.

Lusitanian and hispanic horsemanship owes a lot to the moorish influence [hmm...

Anyway, I always thought 'mysterious dark-skinned bad guys from the south' was cultural legacy from the Moorish invasion & Christian reconquest of Spain.

If Moorish descendents are bereft of virtue owing to the sins of their fathers, does the same apply to the descendents of the European invaders of America?

Some other examples of this kind of thing: There's a Moorish sovereign citizen group that has a name that is confusingly similar to the US federal government.

Yeah, South Italians/moorish, close enough.

I was in Granada last month and was wondering why we don't use the same solutions that keep the Alhambra and other Moorish buildings cool in California.

I confess the man in the picture looks like more of a Turkish stereotype to me, or maybe like a Moorish pirate (what are those huge ear rings!).

Much like "though shalt not kill" didn't stop the inquisition, or the Moorish conquest.

Ten kilometers north is a village still named in local dialect “Moorish village”, and lo and behold, the people there look Arabic.

Perhaps, but according to etymonline the term comes from Spain, where certain families described themselves as having "blue blood" to emphasize that they had no Moorish ancestry.

This is why "remixing" is actually a storytelling virtue - GRR can point at Dorne and vaguely motion "bizarro Moorish Spain" and the reader will instantly get a better idea of what he's dealing with without having to read a 800-pager on Dornish culture and history.

Orange as a concept didn't arrive in Northern Europe until oranges, the fruit, were imported through (Moorish?) Spain.

Western-centric histories also frequently forget the hugely significant contributions of Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), Persia, India and China.

Yeah, and some also look Moorish, middle eastern, Sephardic, etc.