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The term Moor is an exonym used in European languages to designate primarily the Muslim populations of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
Depiction of Muslim army in Iberia, from The Cantigas de Santa Maria
Miniature from Alfonso X's Book of chess, dice and boards, completed in 1283, showing Muslims from Andalusia playing chess. Europeans loosely called the Muslims Moors, blending the name for both people of Arab, Berber, or other ancestry.
The Moors request permission from James I of Aragón, from Cantigas de Santa Maria
Illustration of Muslim musician (left) alongside a Christian musician (right) in a codice of the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria
Othello
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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military command
Moors
…warrior, a sexually overt personality, or other stereotypes. Examples of such characters are found in the Spanish Poem of the Cid and in Shakespeare's Othello. Since the early modern period, "Moors" or "Moorish" has also been used by western historians and scholars to refer to the history and heterogeneous…
Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau, 1850
Desdemona and Othello, by Antonio Muñoz Degrain, 1880
Othello costume. Illustration by Percy Anderson for Costume Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical, 1906
Othello and Desdemona, by Alexandre-Marie Colin, 1829