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This is a collection of quotes about the race of the moors. 

• Mauros niger : Graeci enim nigrum μαῦρον  "Moor is black, for the greeks call black mauron." Xii 1:55 Etymologies of isidore of seville

"Mauros habet tetra nox corporum: Gallos candida cutis:" "Black night possesses the bodies of the Moors; the Gauls have white skins;" xix 23: 7  Etymologies of isidore of seville

• corippus, a byzantine writer in his book I 245 of johannidus "moorish faces of a horrible black color" | maura videbatur facies, nigro colore horrida| 

• ὡςἔμπροσθεν ἐρρήθη, ξύμμαχος ἦλθε. τούτου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼλέγοντος ἤκουσα ὡς ὑπὲρ τὴν χώραν ἧς αὐτὸς ἄρχοι, οὐδένες ἀνθρώπωνοἰκοῦσιν,ἀλλὰ γῆ ἔρημος ἐπὶ πλεῖστον διήκει, ταύτης τε ἐπέκειναἄνθρωποί εἰσιν οὐχ ὥσπερ οἱ Μαυρούσιοι μελανόχροοι, ἀλλὰ λευκοί τε λίαν τὰσώματα καὶ τὰς κόμας ξανθοί. ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ὧδέ πη ἔχει. Pers. 4.13.29  "and I have heard this man say that beyond the country which he ruled there was no habitation of men, but desert land extending to a great distance, and that beyond that there are men, not black skinned like the moors, but very white in body and fair-haired, so much, then, for these things." Procopius: history of the wars, IV. Xiii. 29

• "Ethiopia is departed in two parts principal, and that is in the east part and in the meridional part; the which part meridional is clept Mauritania; and the folk of that country be black enough and more black than in the other part, and they be clept MOORS?" The travels of sir john mandeville chp 17

• "Although marsile has fled, his uncle marganice remains, he rules Carthage, Alfrere, Garmalie, and Ethiopia, an accursed land. He has the black battalions at his command, their noses are big and their ears are broad, and together they number more than fifty thounited snakesnd" 143:1913-1919 The song of Roland 
• De ço qui calt? Se fuit s'en est Marsilies, Remes i est sis uncles, Marganices, Ki tint Kartagene, Alfrere, Garmalie E Ethiope, une tere maldite. La neire gent en ad en sa baillie; Granz unt les nes e lees les oreilles, E sunt ensemble plus de cinquante milie

• "...among the descendants of Sudan (blacks), son of Kana'an are many nations, of them the Ishban, the Zanj, and many people that multiplied in the Maghreb. (morocco)" Akbar al-Zaman 11th century aAmwic text

Black Kmtyw war captives were brought to Ireland (Erin)

"And they carried off a great host of them [Mauritani] as captives to Erin, and these are the blue men [of Erin], for Mauri is the same as black man (Nigri), and Mauritania is the same as blackness. (Nigritudo)" the beginning of the reign of Fogartach| Fragmenta annalium hiberniae (Fragments of annals of Ireland) [869]

• sedeone an montibus erro, dum mecum Garamas et adustus corpora Maurus dividit italas| "Am i to do nothing, or to move from height to height, while Garamantians and burnt skinned moors share Italy with me" 266-268 Punica VIII

Maurus: quidam populus qui estivo calore combustus speciem nigri coloris atraxit"(Moor: a certain people burnt black with summer heat)Liber derivationum of pisanus ugutio 12th century

They remained there and each brother lay with his sister, begetting black (aswadayn) male and female children until they multiplied and spread along the shore. Among them are the Nubians (n-ba), the Zanjis (zanj), the berbers (b-rb-r), the sindhis (sind), the Indians (hind) and all the sudanese (s-d-n) : they are the children of Ham." Ka'ab al-Ahbar (died 7th century)

• |iamque in palantes ac versos terga feroces pugnabant itali, subitus cum mole pavenda terrificis Maurus prorumpit tunger in armis. Nigra viro membra, et furvi iuga celsa trahebant cornipedes, totusque novae formidinis arte concolor aequabat liventia currus equorumterga; nec erectis similes imponere cristis cessarat pennas, aterque tegebat amictus.|''Tunger, the moor, a terrible giant, rushed forward to battle. His body was black, and his lofty chariot was drawn by black horses; and the chariot- a new device to strike terror- was the same color all over as the dusky backs of the steeds; and on his lofty crest he had been careful to set a plume of the same hue; and the garment he wore was black also.'' punica vii 680- 685

• uos aliam potatis aquam. tibi pocula cursor

Gaetulus dabit aut nigri manus ossea Mauri
et cui per mediam nolis occurrere noctem,
cliuosae ueheris dum per monumenta Latinae. ''Your cups will be handed you by a running footman from Gaetulia, or the bony hand of some Moor, so black that you would rather not meet him at midnight, while riding through the tombs on the steep Latin way.'' Juvenal satire v 52-55[/list]

• |hic qui retorto crines maurus incedit subolem fatetur esse se coci santrae.|''This one who struts with wooly hair, a moor, confesses he is the off spring of santra the cook;''The epigrams of martial book vi xxxix 6-7

Angolans were called Moors during the 16th and 17th century

"The sugar cannot be made with out the help of Kmtyw slaves, and that in great numbers; for Angola alone provided fifteen thounited snakesnd four hundred and thirty MOORS for the sugar mills about olinda."chap VII pg 506 America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World by john ogilby

 

• "The Moors of Angola do know that there is a god, and do call god caripongoa, but they worship the sun and the moon" pg 95 The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the adjoining regions by Andrew Battell, Samuel Purchas, Anthony Knivet

Moor does not mean Muslim, North Kmtyw, or Berber. it means black man

• "Moor[maurus, latin] a negro; a blackamoor" A dictionary of the English language by samuel johnson (1755)

Ex Affrica vero gentes innumerae confluent, Nadabares, Gaetuli, et Numidae, sed et populi meridionalis solis adustione deformes, quos a Graeco vocabulo Mauron, quod nigrum sonat, Mauros sive Mauritanos appellant. "From Kmt too, there came countless tribes; the Nadabaræ, Gætulians, and Numidians, and from the scorching south, the people named Moors or Mauritanians, from the Greek word mauros, which means black." 12th century author of Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (Itinerary of Richard I and others to the Holy Land.) Chapter XXXVIII.

11th c. A.D. - Ibn Butlan, Byzantine Christian physician of Iraq wrote, "The Berber women are from the island of Barbara, which is between the west and the south. Their color is mostly black though some pale ones can be found among them. If you can find one whose mother is of Kutama, whose father is of Sanhaja, and whose origin is Masmuda, then you will find her naturally inclined to obedience and loyalty in all matters, active in service, suited both to motherhood and to pleasure, for they are the most solicitous in caring for their children." Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages by Martha A. Brożyna, 2005 p. 303

et Mauretania nomen oris habet titulumque suo fert ipsa colore

the Moors derive their name from their faces, and their identity is proclaimed by the color of their skins

Marcus Manilius (1^st century) Astronomica Book IV (lines 700-744) 4.724

• "A more, or black-a-more; more, ethiopien; negre; moro, negro, etiopo; moro, morisco, negro" Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary 1660

• "A Neger, or Negro; Negre, More, Negro, Moro; Negro, Moro, Morisco" Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary 1660

13th c. A.D. - Abu Shama refers to the Masmuda as "blacks" in his Kitab al-Ravdatayn (B. Lewis, Islam: Religion and Society, 2; 1974, p. 217).

Military historian, Yaacov Lev in the article , "Army Regime and Society in Fatimid Egypt" (1987) wrote of Nasir Khusroes of the 11th century who speaks of the "20,000" Masmuda men that made up part of the Fatimid troops in Egypt his time saying, "Masamida were Berbers from the Western Maghreb. Nasir-i Khusrau, however, says that they were blacks and characterized them as infantry who used lances and swords" (from International Journal of Middle East Studies, 19(3), 337-365).

Tarik ibn ziyads army were described as ...

Los moros de la hueste todos uestidos del sirgo et de los pannos de color que ganaran, las riendas de los sus cauallos tales eran como de fuego, las sus caras dellos negras como la pez, el mas fremoso dellos era negro como la olla, assi luzien sus oios como candelas; el su cauallo dellos ligero como el leopardo, e el su cauallero mucho mas cruel et mas dannoso que es el lobo en la grey de las oueias en la noche. La vil yenta de los affricanos que se non solie preciar de fuerca nin de bondad, et todos sus fechos fazie con art et a enganno, et non se solien amparar si non pechando grandes riquezas et grand aver, essora era exaltada, ca crebanto en una ora mas ayna la nobleza de los godos que lo non podrie omne dezir por lengua. Espanna mezquina!| "The Moors of the host wore silks and colorful clothes which they had taken as booty, their horses' reins were like fire, their faces were black as pitch, the handsomest among them was black as a cooking pot, and their eyes blazed like fire; their horses as swift as leopards, their horsemen more cruel and hurtful than the wolf that comes at night to the flock of sheep. The vile Kmtyw people who were not wont to boast their strength nor their goodness, and who achieved everything by stealth and deceit, and who were not accustomed to help each other except by paying over great quantities of wealth, was at that moment raised on high, for in a short time they speedily shattered the greatness of the goths in a way that man has no words to express. Oh Wretched Spain!" DEL DUELLO DE LOS GODOS DE ESPANNA ET DE LA RAZÓN PORQUE ELLA FUE DESTROYADA from the book Primera Crónica General, Alfonso X El Sabio

Battle of Valencia by  Andreu marcal de sax

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(Moors depicted as black Kmtyws as they were originally)

Battle of Teba (15th century depiction) 

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Italian restaurant called the "Tavern of the Moor" (Trattoria al Moro)

bartholomeus maton "portrait of a moor holding a flag at window"

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Head of a Moor ( Regnault, Henri (1843-1871)

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The Song of Roland (Grandes Chroniques de France) France 1375 the Battle of Roncevaux

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the baptism of a moor vidal de canellas feudal customs of aragon northwestern spain 1290 to 1310 ms ludwig xiv

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Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_St_Jacobus_in_Budapest (The Moor slayer)

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North Kmtyw (Moorish) cavalryman by Lucas d'Heere

Barbary Moor With a Giraffe
Jacopo Ligozzi

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Moor of aAmwia

Jost Amman für Hans Weigel - aAmwIC PENINSULA Mauritanus ex aAmwia. Ein Mohr auß aAmwia

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The sign of the Moor 

El suspiro del moro, de Marcelino de Unceta (Museo de Zaragoza)

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Moors & Sicilians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJKXs6W-4