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The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages. [1] Moors are not a single, distinct or self-defined people. [ 2 ]
Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.
The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
The word moor here is in its old sense meaning marsh; [11] the species is not usually found in what is now called moorland. Another old name, waterhen, is more descriptive of the bird's habitat. [11] A "watercock" is not a male "waterhen" but the rail species Gallicrex cinerea, not closely related to the common moorhen.
In 1971, Indian Moors numbered 29,416 declining from 55,400 in 1963. Their decline was partly due to much of the population returning to India and some declaring themselves and being enumerated as Sri Lankan Moors. [6]
Sri Lankan Moor scholar Dr. Ameer Ali in his summary of the origin history of Sri Lankan Moors states the following: 'In actual fact, the Muslims of Sri Lanka are a mixture of Arab, Persian, Dravidian and Malay blood of which the Dravidian element, because of centuries of heavy Indian injection has remained the dominant one.' [11]
Flowering heath on Amrum, Germany. A heath (/ ˈ h iː θ /) is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.
Moor, Nevada, United States; Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary; Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England; Moor Island, uninhabited Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut; The Moor, Hawkhurst, a village green in Kent, England; The Moor Quarter, a street in Sheffield, England