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Morisco

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Morisco

A Spanish Moor or his descendants who accepted Christian baptism. They were all expelled from Spain in 1609.



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95 Hardcover DP53 Journalist Carr used archival material and other primary material in his recount of the 1609 expulsion of the Morisco, baptized Muslims, from Spain.
Moroccan food has also been influenced greatly by Morisco or the Muslim refugees who were thrown out of Spain preceding the Spanish inquisition.
DURING the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a small yet politically influential group of Morisco writers sought to challenge Old Christian Spain's perception of their culture as something inferior and alien to the Peninsula.
 
 
 
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