These include the Maurya Empire, Shunga Dynasty ... the most legendary empires the world has known first started on the moors of Scotland, the forests of Germany, and the blazing deserts of ...

The fall of the Roman Empire in 476 left a giant rift in Western ... Berber Muslims—native peoples of North Africa, also known as Moors—occupied Spain in 711 and remained there for more ...

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The longest continual war in history was the Iberian Religious War, between the Catholic Spanish Empire and the Moors living in what is today Morocco and Algeria. The conflict, known as the ...

While the Moors may have been vanquished centuries ago, they still loom large in the collective imagination: Getting lost in a web of alleys in the seaside village of Olhão (Al-Hain), I stumble ...

The interior of Cordoba's Mezquita, a former mosque, holds a forest of columns topped by red-and-white arches. (Bob Sessions) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.

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