Moor

Moor or Moors may refer to:

Nature and ecology

• Moorland, a habitat characterized by low-growing vegetation and acidic soils.

People

• Moor (surname)
• Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages
• Moors, a variant name for Melungeon (racial isolate groups) in colonial North America
• Sri Lankan Moor, a minority Muslim group in Sri Lanka
• United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, an American religious group founded and led by Dwight York, which includes (among others) Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation

Places

• Moor, Nevada, United States
• Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary
• Moor Island, Nunavut, Canada an uninhabited island

Animals

• Black Telescope (or Black Moor), a variety of goldfish
• Moor frog, native to Europe and Asia

Arts and entertainment

• Moor (film), a 2015 Pakistani drama by Jamshed Mehmood
• Berber the Moor, a character in The Bastard Executioner
• "Moor", a song from the album From Parts Unknown by American metalcore band Every Time I Die

Other uses

• Mooring, any permanent structure to which a vessel may be secured
• Massive online open research
• Moors Sundry Act of 1790, an advisory resolution passed by South Carolina House of Representatives, clarifying the status of free subjects of the Sultan of Morocco
• Moors, athletic nickname of Alhambra High School (Alhambra, California)

See also

• The Moor (disambiguation)
• Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England
• Lower Moor, a village in Worcestershire, England
• De Moor, a Dutch surname
• Moor End (disambiguation)
• Red Moors, a Sardinian political party
• Moore (disambiguation)
• MOR (disambiguation)
• Mór (disambiguation)
• More (disambiguation)
• Moro (disambiguation)
• More (surname)