Moors

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====//The word Moor// is derived from a Greek word called //mauros//, meaning "black" or "very dark". In Latin it became //maurus//. Derivations of the word can be found in many different languages.Usually this word refers to dark color. In the spanish culture //Moreno//, from the Latin root, means "tanned" in Spain and Portugal and "black person" or a "mulatto" in other Spanish-speaking countries.====

====Moors have also been referred to several historic and modern populations of Muslim (and earlier non-Muslim) people of Berber and Arab, who descended from North Africa, some of whom came to inhabit the Iberian Peninsula.====

====In reference to the Othello book, this term moor is used to describe the character of Othello. He plays an important role in the book as the man who falls in love with Desdemona, eventually eloping with her.====