Moor

Moor may refer to:

Ethnicity

  • Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages, who initially were Berber and Arab peoples from North Africa
  • Moro people, an autonomous Muslim people in the Philippines
  • Sri Lankan Moor, a minority Muslim group in Sri Lanka
  • Marakkar, a Muslim minority ethnic group in India
  • a variant name for Melungeon in colonial North and South America

Places

  • Moor or moorland, an uncultivated upland area that is characterized by low growing vegetation on acidic soils
  • Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary
  • Moor, Nevada, United States
  • The Moor Quarter, a street in Sheffield, England
  • The Moor, Hawkhurst, a village green in Kent, England
  • Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England, situated on the Cranborne Chase plateau, five miles east of Blandford Forum
  • Moor Island, one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

People

Culture

Other

See also

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