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    Moriscos (Spanish: [moˈɾiskos], Catalan: [muˈɾiskus]; Portuguese: mouriscos [moˈɾiʃkuʃ]; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants...
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    Expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish: Expulsión de los moriscos) was decreed by King Philip III of Spain on April 9, 1609. The Moriscos were descendants...
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    The Morisco Kiosk (Local: Kiosco Morisco, English: Moorish Kiosk) is a kiosk structure in Colonia Santa María la Ribera in Mexico City, Mexico. It is situated...
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    Aben Humeya (category Moriscos)
    as Muhammad ibn Umayyah (Arabic: محمد بن أمية), was a Morisco leader who commanded the Morisco Revolt against Philip II of Spain in the Alpujarras region...
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    The Morisco Quran describes a selection of Quranic excerpts that constituted Qurans used in Morisco communities in Iberia beginning in the early 16th...
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    Catholic population known as "Moriscos". Discontent among the new "Moriscos" led to a second rebellion, led by a Morisco known as Aben Humeya, starting...
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  • The Morisco is the 2011 novel by the Moroccan novelist, historian, and politician, Hassan Aourid It was published by Dar Abi Raqraq publishing in Rabat...
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  • Luccas Morisco da Silva (born 10 January 2004) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Coritiba. Born in Curitiba, Paraná, Morisco joined...
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  • the Spanish cognate cuarterón is used to describe cuarterón de mulato or morisco (someone whose racial origin is three-quarters white and one-quarter black)...
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  • Andrea Morisco (in Greek: Ἀνδρέας Μουρίσκος, Andreas Mouriskos) was a Genoese pirate active in the Aegean Sea in the late 13th century, who in 1304 entered...
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    Christians and Moriscos. The Morisco Revolt in Granada in 1568–1570 was harshly suppressed, and the Inquisition intensified its attention on the Moriscos. From...
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    historian, and Arabist from a Morisco background. He was one of the main proponents of Andalusian nationalism and Moriscoism, which emphasized the cultural...
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    Republic of Salé (category Moriscos)
    the Bou Regreg river. It was founded by Moriscos from the town of Hornachos, in western Spain. The Moriscos were the descendants of Muslims who were...
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    Moriscos is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2014 census (INE), the municipality had a population...
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    1499-1501 and after the Muslims were defeated and forcibly converted, a Morisco rebellion in 1568–1571. Following the annexation, The city of Granada,...
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  • Alex Morisco-Tarr, known professionally as Vibe Chemistry, is a producer from Deanshanger, England. He had two hits on the UK Singles Chart; "Balling"...
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    expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain, timed to coincide with the declaration of a truce in the war for the Netherlands. The Moriscos were the descendants...
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    Castellanos de Moriscos is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It...
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    (1993). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936. Volume V: L—Moriscos (reprint ed.). Brill Publishers. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-90-04-09791-9. Archived...
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    Aragonese and Castillian Morisco descendants deep into the 18th century, and even Catalan was spoken at the same time by Catalan Morisco descendants in the...
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    broader meaning, applied to both Filipino Moros from Mindanao, and the moriscos of Granada. Moro refers to all things dark, as in "Moor", moreno, etc....
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  • Joan Malet (category Moriscos)
    Joan Malet (circa 1510 – July 2, 1549) was a Catalan witch-hunter of Morisco origin, who operated in Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia in the middle XVIth...
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    Morisco Kiosk in Mexico...
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    Aljamiado (category Moriscos)
    languages such as Old Spanish or Aragonese. This alphabet is also called the Morisco alphabet. According to Anwar G. Chejne, Aljamiado or Aljamía is "a corruption...
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    secretly practicing their religion. Muslims who converted were called Moriscos. They were required to wear upon their caps and turbans a blue crescent...
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    ‘The Watch Tower’ (Torre de la Vela). Hall of Mosaics Courtyard of the Moriscos Courtyard of the Women Reception Hall Royal Baths of Doña Leonor The main...
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    become nominally Christian Moriscos. About four decades after the War of the Alpujarras (1568–1571), over 300,000 moriscos were expelled, settling primarily...
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    Español and Mulata with their Morisco children, 1763 by Miguel Cabrera...
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    of the Gospel of Barnabas has been discovered in a 1634 manuscript by a Morisco which was found in Madrid, and the earliest published reference to it was...
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    New Christian converts of Muslim origin were known as moriscos. Unlike Jewish conversos, moriscos were subject to an edict of expulsion even after their...
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