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  2. Moors - Wikipedia

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    The Ceylon Moors (unlike the Indian Moors) are descendants of Arab traders who settled there in the mid-6th century. When the Portuguese arrived in the early 16th century, they labelled all the Muslims in the island as Moors as they saw some of them resembling the Moors in North Africa.

  3. Sri Lankan Moors - Wikipedia

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    Many Sri Lankan Moors are Marakkars, and share the same history with Tamil Nadu Marakkars in particular, and Marakkars from Kerala.This can be seen from the large number of prominent Sri Lankan Moors who hold the surname of Marikkar (and its variations) and through the extremely strong linguistic and cultural similarities held by these communities. [13]

  4. List of Sri Lankan Moors - Wikipedia

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    The Moors trace their ancestry to Arab traders who settled in Sri Lanka in waves beginning from the 8th century. [6] [7] [8] The population of Moors are the highest in the Ampara, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts. Kechimalai Mosque, Beruwala. One of the oldest mosques in Sri Lanka. It is believed to be the site where the first Arabs landed ...

  5. Maghrebis - Wikipedia

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    Maghrebis were known in ancient and medieval times as the Roman Africans or Moors.The word Moor is of Phoenician origin. [14] The etymology of the word can be traced back to the Phoenician term Mahurin, meaning "Westerners", from which the ancient Greeks derive Mauro, and from which Latin derives Mauri.

  6. Islam in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    However, when the Portuguese arrived during the 16th century, many of these Arab traders' descendants – now called the Sri Lankan Moors – were the main traders in spice, with networks extending to the Middle East. The Portuguese colonists attacked, persecuted, and destroyed the Sri Lankan Moor settlements, warehouses, and trading networks ...

  7. Moorish architecture - Wikipedia

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    Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb).

  8. The war has forced Israel’s Arab citizens to explain ... - AOL

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    Arab citizens and permanent residents in Israel make up just over 20% of the country’s population. The roughly 2 million people are distinct from Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank ...

  9. Azawagh Arabs - Wikipedia

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    The Azawagh Arabs (Arabic: عرب أزواغ) (also known as nomadic Moors) are nomadic ethnic Arab-ancestry tribes who are settling mainly in the area of Azawagh which is a dry basin covering what is today northwestern Niger, as well as parts of northeastern Mali and southern Algeria.