⛪The Moors: 25 Wonderful Awesome Facts You Might Not Know About Them⛪br ⛪#TheMoors25WonderfulAwesomeFactsYouMightNotKnowAboutThem⛪br - It is believed that the term Moor was initially used by Christian Europeans during the Middle Ages to refer to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta. There was a time when the term Moors referred exclusively to the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers, but the name was later used to refer to Arabs and Arabized Iberians as well. The Moors: 25 Wonderful Awesome Facts You Might Not Know About Them. br br The surname of the Moors,br br The following are some examples of Moorish surnames or last names:,br br As a result of these surnames, images of ancestral homes are evoked in the mind.br br In addition to these names, there are other Moorish last names that are quite popular: Alayza, Aldaba, Aldabeh, Albarado, Clayfield, Fondre, Grantham, Halyburton, Morris, O'Conry, Stirling, Tanner, Westcote, and Zambrano.br br An overview of the timeframe,br br In the Iberian peninsula, the Moorish period can be defined as the period of time when the Moors ruled the peninsula beginning in 711 and continuing in one form or another until 1492. In 711, a large Visigothic army was defeated by a Moorish army that crossed the Strait of Gibraltar under the leadership of Tariq Bin Ziyad after a successful crossing of the Strait.