Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively ... the ancient Roman province of Mauretania in what is now North Africa. Over time, it was increasingly applied to Muslims ...

To investigate the male genetic legacy of the Arab rule in southern Europe during medieval times, we focused on specific Northwest African haplogroups and identified evolutionary close STR-defined ...

Southern Europeans get a significant portion of their genetic ancestry from North Africa, new research suggests. The findings are perhaps not surprising, given that the Romans occupied North ...

The Moors were Muslims who invaded Spain and part of France in 711 AD, in the very early days of Islam. This force of Berbers from North Africa and Syrians from Damascus created an exquisite ...