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Moor may refer to:

Ethnicity

  • Moors, inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta.
  • Moro people, an autonomous Muslim people in the Philippines
  • Sri Lankan Moor, a minority Muslim group in Sri Lanka
  • Marakkar, a Muslim minority ethnic group in India
  • a variant name for Melungeon in colonial North America

Places

  • Moor, a word for a fen or marsh, now mostly applied to flat areas of former marshland in Somerset, England
  • Moor or moorland, an uncultivated upland area that is characterized by low growing vegetation on acidic soils
  • Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary
  • The Moor, a street in Sheffield, England
  • The Moor, Hawkhurst, a village green in Kent, England.
  • Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England, situated on the Cranborne Chase plateau, five miles east of Blandford Forum
  • Moor Island, one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

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