Mauri people

The Roman empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–38), showing the location of the Mauri Berber-speaking people, some of whom remained outside the empire when the bulk of their original territory was annexed by Rome in 44 AD

Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") was the Latin designation for those ancient Berber peoples inhabiting the territory of modern Algeria and Morocco, Roman Mauretania, west of Numidia. The Latin was simply a transliteration of ancient Greek mauroi, μαῦροι. 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. Groups of Mauri continued to inhabit the desert regions south of the Roman borderland. A subgroup of the Mauri were known as the Musulamii.