{"id":1148,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"moorish-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Moorish Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 136);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Moorish Empire<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIH1xo4T0u0?si=NaGdqjHO8MntI6xY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 136);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The bringers of light to a dark Europe<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 136);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">How African knowledge ignited Europe&rsquo;s Renaissance.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Moorish-empire.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"151\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">For over 700 years, Black kings ruled its thrones &mdash; from the battlefields of Spain to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alc&aacute;zar\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">alcazars<\/span><\/a> (palaces) of Sicily, from Cologne&rsquo;s cathedrals to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alhambra\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Granada&rsquo;s Alhambra<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Since 711 AD, their scholars, architects, and scientists brought medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and architecture that transformed the continent forever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Moors built cities with running water, hospitals, libraries, and streetlights centuries before the rest of Europe caught up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/King-of-Sicily.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"147\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Their names include  Tariq ibn Ziyad, Abd al-Rahman, Almanzor, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Hasan al-Kalbi, and more:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Ruiner-of-the-Visigoths.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"101\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Moorish-king.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"102\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They built cities (Seville, Segovia, Granada, Cordoba, etc.) commanded armies, shaped European history, yet their dark faces and golden crowns were erased from EU history books.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Bldr-of-Cordoba-70-libraries.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"141\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.santiagoturismo.com\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Santiago de Compostela<\/span><\/a> is known as the culmination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, and the alleged burial site of the Biblical apostle St. James, whose remains lie within its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santiago_de_Compostela_Cathedral\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Catedral<\/span><\/a>. The Moorish <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Almanzor\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">King Almanzor<\/span><\/a> conquered the town and had pilgrims carry the Catedral bell on their backs all the way to Cordoba in 997:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Almanzor-997-Bell-of-Santiago-de-Compostola-to-Cordoba.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"152\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This is the untold story of 10 forgotten Black kings of Europe: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moors\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">the Moors<\/span><\/a> who changed the course of history, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_voyage_of_the_predecessor_of_Mansa_Musa\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Abu Bakr II<\/span><\/a>, who presumebly sailed across the Atlantic to the Americas with 2000 ships, over 700 years ago:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/10-forgotten-blck-kings%20of%20Eu.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"175\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXbKAJt0ruA?si=_FoWFFWcLgjtcXfB\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=1149\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moorish Empire The bringers of light to a dark Europe How African knowledge ignited Europe&rsquo;s Renaissance. For over 700 years, Black kings ruled its thrones &mdash; from the battlefields of Spain to the alcazars (palaces) of Sicily, from Cologne&rsquo;s cathedrals to Granada&rsquo;s Alhambra. Since 711 AD, their scholars, architects, and scientists brought medicine, astronomy, mathematics,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}