A Moor's head, also known as a Maure, since the 11th century, is a symbol depicting the head of a black moor. The term moor came to define anyone who...

a moor's head, crowned and collared red, in reference to the arms of Freising, Germany. In the case of Corsica and Sardinia, the blindfolded moors' heads...

1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor's head in black wearing a white bandana above his eyes on a white background...

rose from the arms of the medieval county of Moosburg The "Freising Moor's head" This is a controversial charge in the coat of arms, which could represent...

1999, describing it as a "white field with a red cross and a bandaged Moor's head facing away from the hoist (the edge close to the mast) in each quarter"...

shown wearing a crown. The Moor's head is common in the Bavarian tradition and is known as the caput Ethiopicum or the Moor of Freising. A legend states...

isolated head of a moor is blazoned "a Maure" or a "moor's head". The reasons for the inclusion of a blackamoor head vary. The Moor's head on the crest...

Blackamoores, a 2013 book Moor's head or Maure, stylized depictions of black Africans in heraldry, sometimes called Blackamoors Moors, Muslims of Spain and...

became Black Murray. The bandit as a dark skinned Moor or Saracen, could though explain the Moor's head that appears on the crest of the Arms of Lord Kirkcudbright...

more accredited historical explanation of the Moor's head in the family coat of arms presents the Moor's head as the symbol of the flourishing slave trade...

Serbia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Turk head (heraldry). Heads in heraldry Moor's head (heraldry) Ottoman wars in Europe Charles Stickney (May...

tangerine or a piece of pineapple. The name moorkop translates literally as "moor's head". In order to cause less offence, some retailers now sell them under...

route across the Rakhiot Face and to reach the "Moor's Head" and establish Camp V behind the Moor's Head on 2 July. The expedition's plan had been for one...

Island wearable wood carving) Flag of Corsica (white flag, charged with a Moor's head in black) Flag of South Korea (white flag, charged with the Taegeuk and...

Maure, also known as Moor's head, is a symbol depicting the head of a black moor. Maure may also refer to: Auguste Maure (1840–1907), French photographer...

Cross of Saint George, or cross of gules on Argent, with a Maure, or Moor's head, in each quarter. The earliest documented evidence of these arms is in...

(1995–1997) A boar's head erased A wolf head erased in the coat of arms of Sipoo Moor's head (heraldry) Turk head (heraldry) Skull and crossbones (symbol)...

ancient symbols. Some, however, did, including Coburg, which replaced the Moor's head representing Saint Maurice on their arms with a sword and swastika, and...

Pope Benedict XVI feature a moor's head, crowned and collared red. Nevertheless, the use of moors (and particularly their heads) as a heraldic symbol has...

"man's head", but are far more frequently described in greater detail, either characteristic of a particular race or nationality (such as Moors' heads, Saxons'...

German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈʔaːlɔɪ̯s ˈʁat͡sɪŋɐ]; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April...

first University of Corsica (with instruction in Italian). He chose the Moor's head ("Testa Mora"), previously used by Theodore of Corsica, as Corsica's...

Four Moors flag, also known as the "Cross of Alcoraz". This consists of a red cross of Saint George on a white background with a maure (moor's head) in...

the head of the brigand to the king on the point of his sword. The story is one explanation for the MacLellan clan crest, however a Moors' head has also...

three pagan Moors." The Moor's head is one of the most mysterious symbols in Christian heraldry. Pope Benedict XVI has placed the Moor's head in identical...

around 1464–1488. The seal ring on the sitter's finger features the moor's head device, perhaps, a reference to the first syllable of Mornauer's surname...

Unione Corse was the same as the symbol for Corsica, the Moor's head, a depiction of a black human head with a rag tied around the forehead, on a white field...

oeuvre. In Wild Man Holding a Shield with a Hare and a Shield with a Moor's Head, the wild man holds two parallel shields, which seem to project from...

Reina. Known as «cabeza del moro» ("the Moor's head") due to it being embedded in a wall, with only the head being visible. Talavera la Nueva Torralba...

Republic minted its own coins at Murato in 1761, imprinted with the Moor's Head, the traditional symbol of Corsica. Paoli's ideas of independence, democracy...