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...
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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...
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Freising (district) (section The Freising Moor's head)
was not a moor, but whose pictures might have become darker over time. Other person or meaning lost in time There is a crown on the moor's head, which probably...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Flag of Sardinia (redirect from Flag of the four Moors)
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"...
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Serbia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Turk head (heraldry). Heads in heraldry Moor's head (heraldry) Ottoman wars in Europe Charles Stickney (May...
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up of the Cross of Saint George, or cross of gules on Argent, with a Moor's head in each quarter. The earliest documented evidence of these arms is in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Blackamoores, a 2013 book Moor's head or Maure, stylized depictions of black Africans in heraldry, sometimes called Blackamoors Moors, Muslims of Spain and...
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traditional story of the crest used in MacLellan heraldry Moor's head, the head of a Moor used in heraldry Other forms of the Gaelic surname borne by...
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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...
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(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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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'...
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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...
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mostly by children. The original colloquial names were Mohrenkopf ("moor's head") and Negerkuss ("negro's kiss"), but after eventually concluding that...
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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...
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the city. 2- To recall the historic jersey from 1978, the shield has a moor's head, from the Testa Mora Flag. 3- It also reappeared as in the 70s and the...
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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...
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Theodore of Corsica (category Heads of state of former countries)
among the rebels soon led to their defeat. The Genoese put a price on his head and published an account of his colourful past, and he left Corsica in November...
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