Are you people aware that as recently as 300 years ago, we had black African monarchs in Europe?

Some were possibly of Nigerian origin.

They were West Africans, and were the famous Moors of history.

''History confirms that the Moors ruled in Europe -- primarily Spain and Portugal -- for almost 700 years. They were known for their influence in European culture, but not many people know that the Moors were actually Europeans of African descent.


Moors were usually depicted as being "mostly black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for negro," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.



Several written works at the time also confirm that. The 16th century English playwrights William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African and Christopher Marlowe used Moor and African interchangeably.

Author and historian Chancellor Williams said "the original Moors, like the original Egyptians, were black Africans." An Arab chronicler also described Moorish Emperor Yusuf ben-Tachfin as "a brown man with wooly hair."

In European Art, Moors are also often shown with African features: pitch black, frizzled hair, flat and wide face, flat-nosed, and thick lips. The Drake Jewel, a rare documented piece of jewel from the 16th century, seemed to show a profile of a Black king dominating the profile of a white woman.

Moreover, Moors were known to have contributed in areas of mathematics, astronomy, art, cuisine, medicine, and agriculture that helped develop Europe and bring them from the Dark Ages into the Renaissance.

Generations of Spanish rulers have allegedly tried to abolish this era from the historical record. But recent archaeology determined that Moors indeed ruled in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years -- from 711 A.D. to 1492.''

- https://www.blackhistory.com/2019/08/moors-black-kings-queens-ruled-europe-almost-700-years.html#:~:text=African%20Americans...-,Black%20Kings%20(and%20Queens)%20Ruled%20Parts%20of%20Europe%20For%20Almost,actually%20Europeans%20of%20African%20descent

This man ruled Spain.



- Juan Batista Maíno Adoration of the Kings (bigger) Spain (c. 1612) This gorgeous (and massive) Adoration by Spanish painter Maíno is on loan to the National Gallery for the first time in the UK

Monuments to the Moors are still seen all over Europe


Another African king of Europe

Interesting facts

My first time of hearing about this.

NwaNimo1:
Oyibo refer to that time as the 'dark ages'.......they don't like discussing the matter,

very crafty people!

It was the Moors that rescued them from their 'Dark Ages', which was characterised by mass poverty and illiteracy in Europe. It was the Moorish influence in administration, education, art, architecture, and science, that led to the European Renaissance, which was the springboard for the Industrial Revolution.

Funnily enough, we have no idea that WE contributed heavily to the Industrial Revolution.

Maybe there are no black or white after all, we may all have gotten colour from our environment which is mostly affected by climate in that region

Englandboy:
My first time of hearing about this.

Many European aristocratic families have Moorish ancestors, including the British Royal family.

Those European families still honour their Moorish ancestors today, with family plaques and crests like these below:

To see much more of these ancient paintings and artifacts, simply type 'Moorish Kings' in Google Images.

Why do u post this stuff at night

Englandboy:
My first time of hearing about this.

I know mathematics originated from yuroba land meaning what is added to and the word eror in Yoruba means error today in English meaning wrong ,
These guys attacked Africa , killed our scholars , priests and Diviners, warriors and sages , killednour kings then destroyed or looted artefacts with historic encryptions on them and so we lost records , we had an agrarian culture of sharing information and knowledge, Socrates even came to mali in Timbuktu to school under scholars, he even stole scrolls and was caught , he was banished from returning to Africa , he’s the first man in the history of the world for his visa to be revoked . Black men have since stopped reading

godofuck231:
I know mathematics originated from yuroba land meaning what is added to and the word eror in Yoruba means error today in English meaning wrong ,
These guys attacked Africa , killed our scholars , priests and Diviners, warriors and sages , killed our kings then destroyed or looted artefacts with historic encryptions on them and so we lost records , we had an agrarian culture of sharing information and knowledge, Socrates even came to mali in Timbuktu to school under scholars, he even stole scrolls and was caught , he was banished from returning to Africa , he’s the first man in the history of the world for his visa to be revoked. Black men have since stopped reading

When Europeans arrived Benin City in the 15th century, they described it as one of the most beautiful cities on Earth.

According to the UK Guardian Newspaper, ''Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

The 13 castles of Spain were built by the moorish princes and kings , they were held under siege and they endured for months and years till they came to a truce , to take their wife’s and properties and leave unhurt, this was how the white started building castles and fortresses , those castles still have records showing the timeline and when the moorish princes rules and built the castles , they still stand till today , that’s why the Portuguese are dark skinned ,
The invasion of Africa started when one king mensah musa visited European kindles and gifted them bullions of gold , that was when Africa’s problem started , they began expeditions till they raped Africa dry especially the Gold Coast,
The king solomon story (the richest man ever ) and his mines being sort after trails to king mensah musa

godofuck231:
The 13 castles of Spain were built by the moorish princes and kings , they were held under siege and they endured for months and years till they came to a truce , to take their wife’s and properties and leave unhurt, this was how the white started building castles and fortresses , those castles still have records showing the timeline and when the moorish princes rules and built the castles , they still stand till today , that’s why the Portuguese are dark skinned ,
The invasion of Africa started when one king mensah musa visited European kindles and gifted them bullions of gold , that was when Africa’s problem started , they began expeditions till they raped Africa dry especially the Gold Coast,
The king solomon story (the richest man ever ) and his mines being sort after trails to king mensah musa

Some great points. But it was fundamentally the European adoption of 'gunpowder' - a native Chinese mixture traditionally used in festivals for fireworks, which the Europeans then used to build firearms, which led to their military conquest of the whole world, not just Africa.

Black history.

In underground European history circles, there are allegations that the Moors were oppressive to the European populations they dominated.

A famous allegation is that the Moors killed some of their white captives and subjects, and used their skin for leather sandals and bags.

Supposedly, there was an actual industry based on this activity.

Another allegation is that they built many 'harems' - huge villas in which they screwed hundreds of white women at will.

Modern white racism they contend, is karmic payback for what the Moors did to them.

Because Moorish presence in Europe was for 700 years (between the 1100s and 1700s), it is not inconceivable that some atrocities were committed by the African elite there at one point or the other.

That is the nature of man's inhumanity to man, in situations of dominance.

A black monarch of Germany
Wappen Erzbistum München und Freising seit



https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wappen_Erzbistum_M%C3%BCnchen_und_Freising_seit_2013.svg

Coat of arms of Reinhard Marx, the German Cardinal, archbishop of Munich and Freising


African King, England

More of these are needed

Monarch
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OP you dserve to be jailed for this fantastical tale you presented as historical fact

Fellow headcases like yourself will now carry this garbage around inside their heads for the rest of their lives, not knowing you are both crazies

NwaNimo1:
Oyibo refer to that time as the 'dark ages'.......they don't like discussing the matter,

very crafty people!

No oga. Dark ages = no science, no development, no organized religion, no records of events throughout Europe because of the fall off the Roman Empire and reign of barbarian tribes (Germans)
Everywhere else was developing but Europe. It was the moors who brought modern civilizations to the dark continent then

Nawao

Ok oooo
Sai baba tho

Mere imaginations, it never happens

Is this really true

Lots of ignorance on this thread.

Did Africans (Moors) rule Europe? YES.
Were these Moors Nigerians? Capital NO.

Moors were Arabs/Berbers from Northern Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya etc). Their name "Moors" is derived from Morocco, their main origin.

The Moors southernmost extension at their peak was Mali/Niger.


There was no Islam in Nigeria in the 1100s and we all know Islam was introduced to Nigeria around 1500s by Dan Fodio, so how were Moors Nigerians??


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Mr. Reflect07 OP, can you please quote ONE respectable source that cited Moors as having Nigerian descent?

Please no insults or epistles. Just quote the source...
Thanks.