[MD] [Bulk] moors

[MarshaV]

Adrie,

Ferdinand and Isabella drove the last of the Moors out of Spain in 1492.  It is these Moors 
I am wondering about.  Where did they resettled.  Yes, I know they were assimilated; they 
occupied Spain for seven hundred years.  Where did they go after they were defeated.  
They were a very educated, tolerant, intellectually advanced people, what happened to 
them?  Can they be identified with any area of the MiddleEast today? I've been to the 
mosque in Cordoba, I've been to the Alhambra in Granada, I've been all through Andalusia, 
these people left behind artifacts of incredible beauty.

I saw on the documentary that they are beginning to rewrite much about the occupation.  So some 
of what you knew 20 years ago, may not still apply.  Don't know.  It's seems the good Catholics 
tried erase all they could from minds of the people and the landscape.  Today archeologists are
rediscovering a history that has been for a long time lost.  


Marsha 







On May 26, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca wrote:

> Hi Marsha
> Well, Marsha , about here where i live 20 miles away, two spanisch wars occured , Belgium en Holland
> were long time occupied by Spain,first, war between de "Staatsen"Hollanders , and the Spanish -1568
> 1648, then after this the Spanish succesion war between 1702-1713.
> 
> so given this wars , and my interest in thes events , i have a big knowledge of these events.
> its possible to feed my interest , because many of the fortifications are still here.
> aside of this gathering of warinfo , long time ago , ik came across the question about the dissapeared Moors
> in Spain.so i had to solve the riddle then.
> The Moors simply merged , blended in with the Spanisch population, they assimilated.
> I never found proof for the item, but in that time, internet was not availiable like it is now .
> 
> after your question, i did soms reexamination, and of cours found a nice wiki-artikel on the matter
> concluding and showing proof on the assimilation.
> 
> this is the link  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors
> 
> the subject is under "population genetics"
> 
> I knew this 30 years ago!
> 
> now a goodie-
> not only some are exported towards the Spanish colonys, in the aftermath of their assimilation, some
> became famous beiing the first Moors in the us, exported from Spain, imported to the new world.
> 
> First Moor in America
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estevanico
> 
> so-provable; the dna strain of the Moors can be found back in the americas.
> 
> so , in answer on your question, "where did the Moors go?"
> 
> They are , in fact on your doorstep.
> Yours sincerely
> Adrie
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