Originally Posted By: Slava
I said Arabs not 'blacks'. 'Moor' is a medieval term for Muslim population in northern Africa and Muslims in Europe (Iberia, Sicily). They were mostly Arabs and Berbers/some other northern African ethnicity that converted to islam, ie. 'whites' (Caucasoid/Europid race, to use the correct term). They weren't 'black', they just had some black slaves and soldiers with them, that's why Europeans often portrayed 'Moors' as blacks in some exotic depictions and heraldry. It's far from reality. I don't see how Italians would have any black ancestry.


I only used the term Moors b/c it was mentioned by someone else in either this thread or another one. That's not my term.

For the record, I agree with your post here 100% but others are ignorant to most of this.


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