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The article about [[Lutefisk]] claims: "Lutefisk (prounounced loo-te-fisk) is a well-known food of Norway and Sweden (prounounced loo-ta-fisk)which consists of white fish (normally Cod) soaked in lye as a preservative, then dried until it hardens. It is edible after multiple rinsings of water to remove the otherwise poisonous lye, and has a jelly-like consistency after washing."
The '''Moors''' is the ancient name for the indigenous [[nomadic]] [[Berber]] people in [[North Africa]], who converted to [[Islam]] in the [[7th century]]. The name corresponds to the kingdom of the Mauri, Mauretania, which its last king [[Bocchus II]] willed to [[Octavian]] in 33 BCE, after which it became the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] province of [[Mauretania]]. Mauretania lay in present day [[Morocco]] and Western [[Algeria]]. The name of ''Mauri'' was applied by the Romans to all non-romanized natives of North Africa still ruled by their own chiefs, until the 3rd century AD.
This is actually wrong. The fish is dried first, [[Stockfish]], and then soaked in lye or another base (like birch ash). After this it is rinsed in water. And another thing; it tastes delicious :)
Since the Mauri were a dark-skinned people in comparison to Europeans, 'Moor' came to be applied indiscriminately by English speakers to blacks, Muslims, Saracens, Persians, or Indians. Shakespeare's [[Othello]] was 'the Moor of Venice.' During the 17th century, Africans were sometimes distinguished from others as '''blackamoors.'''
In [[711]] AD, some Moors invaded [[Visigoth]] [[Christian]] [[Spain]]. Under their leader [[Tariq ibn-Ziyad]] they brought most of Spain under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign. They attempted to move northeast across the [[Pyrenees]] Mountains but were defeated by the [[Franks|Frank]] [[Charles Martel]] at the [[Battle of Tours]] in [[732]]. The Moors ruled in Spain, except for small areas in the northwest and largely [[Basque]] regions in the Pyrenees, and in North Africa for several decades. The Moorish state suffered civil conflict in the [[750s]].
The country then broke up into a number of mostly Islamic fiefdoms, which were consolidated under the [[Caliph]]ate of [[Cordoba, Spain|Cordoba]]. Christian states based in the north and west slowly extended their power over [[Spain]]. [[Galicia]], [[Kingdom of León|León]], [[Navarre]], [[Aragon]], [[Catalonia]] or ''[[Marca Hispanica]]'', and eventually [[Castile]] became [[Christianity|Christian]] in the next several centuries. This period is known for the tolerant acceptance of Christians, [[Muslim]]s and [[Jew]]s living in the same territories. Although, the Caliphate of Córdoba collapsed in [[1031]] and the Islamic territory in Spain came to be ruled by North African Moors.
In [[1212]] a coalition of Christian kings under the leadership of [[Alfonso VIII of Castile]] drove the muslims from Central [[Spain]]. However the Moorish Kingdom of [[Granada]] thrived for three more centuries. This kingdom is known in modern time for architectural gems such as the [[Alhambra]]. On [[January 2]], [[1492]], the leader of the last Muslim stronghold in Granada surrendered to armies of a recently united Christian Spain. The remaining Muslim were forced to leave [[Spain]] or convert to Christianity. These descendants of the Muslims were named ''[[morisco]]s''. They were an important portion of the peasants in some territories, like [[Aragon]], [[Valencia]] or [[Andalusia]], until their systematic expulsion in the years from [[1609]] to [[1614]]. Henre Lapeyre has estimated that this affected 300,000 out of a total of 8 million inhabitants at the time.
In the meantime, the tide of Islamic conquest had rolled not just westward to Spain, but also eastward, through [[India]], the [[Malayan peninsula]], and [[Indonesia]], up to [[Mindanao]], one of the major islands of an archipelago, which the Spanish had reached during their voyages westward from the [[New World]]. By [[1521]], the ships of [[Ferdinand Magellan|Magellan]] had themselves reached that island archipelago, which they named the [[Philippines]], after [[Philip II of Spain]]. On Mindanao, the Spanish also named these [[kris]]-bearing people as [[Moros]], or 'Moors'. See [[Reconquista]].
See also: [[Islamic architecture]], [[Othello|Othello, the Moor of Venice]], [[Blackamoor]]
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Not to be confused with [[moor]] land.
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