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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Thomas Moore
• Moors
• Moore, Thomas
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Moor
Webster Dictionary
• Mooring
• Moored
• Moor
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Albert Joseph Moore
• Cleator Moor
• Edward Moore
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Brown, James Moore, D.D.
• Brown, James Moore, D.D., (2)
• Humphrey, Zephaniah Moore, D.D.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Marston Moor
• Moore, Frank Frankfort
• Moore, John, M.d.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Arthur Moore
• Henry Moore Jackson
• Michael Moore
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A general term for tribes in North Africa descended from Arab and Berber stock; they were Christians for several centuries, but on their conquest by Arabs in 647 embraced Mohammedanism; the town Moors do not hold before European settlers, but the nomad tribes show more vitality; Moorish peoples seized and settled in Spain early in the 8th century, and, introducing a civilisation further advanced than that in Europe generally with respect to science, art, and industry alike, maintained a strong rule till the 11th century; then the Spaniards gradually recovered the peninsula; Toledo was taken in 1085, Saragossa in 1118, Valencia in 1238, Seville in 1248, Murcia in 1260, and Granada in 1492; Turkish successes in the East came too late to save the Moors, and the last were banished from the country in 1609.