e/Mauri (people)

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has glosseng: The Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") were an ancient Berber people inhabiting the territory of modern Algeria and Morocco. Much of that territory was annexed to the Roman empire in 44 AD, as the province of Mauretania (later divided into Mauretania Caesariensis and Mauretania Tingitana). Subgroups of Mauri continued to inhabit the desert regions south of the Roman border. A subgroup of the Mauri were known as the Musulamii.
lexicalizationeng: Mauri
instance of(noun) a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire
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