more surnames

Do you recognize your name or someone else's?

Alarcon
Albarran
Albanes
Albiter
Albizures
Alburez
Alameda
Alameida
Alanis
Alaniz
Alayza

Zambrano
Zamora
Zamornno
Zamorar
Zumudio

More Moorish names?!

Aldaba
Aldabeh
Albarado
Albarico (?)
Albavera
Albidrez
Albornos
Albornoz

Zaragosa (?)

Hispanic Ancestors: Latin America / Spain

Hispanic Ancestors: Latin America / Spain
http://genealogy.about.com/od/hispanic/

Spanish Surname Meanings & Origins

Spanish Surname Meanings & Origins
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/surname/a/spanish_names.htm

Free surnames info blog

Free surnames info blog
http://surnamesrkv.blogspot.com/

Muslim Spain and European Culture

Muslim Spain and European Culture
http://www.xmission.com/~dderhak/index/moors.htm

moorish influence in spanish culture

moorish influence in spanish culture
http://www.spanishtopics.com/moorishinfluenceinspanishculture/

FONS VITAE Titus Burckhardt Series, Moorish Culture in Spain

FONS VITAE Titus Burckhardt Series
MOORISH CULTURE IN SPAIN
http://www.fonsvitae.com/MOORISH.HTML

Moorish Surnames

To this day, we have people (mostly Spanish/Latin in origin) with Moor-related surnames, and even first names.

A few surnames that come to mind are in three categories:

Religious: Medina
Arabic Al=the: Alvarado, Alhambra, Alvarez
Arabic Z: Zambrano

There were at least three (3) sets of Moors

There were at least three (3) sets of Muslim/Moslem Moors: the Arabic Moors, Black or African Moors (hence the term, "blackamoor," or Black as a Moor) and even White Moors.

This blog is about exactly what it says

The Moors conquered Spain about 700 A.D. and stayed there for over 700 years. We will talk about, in this blog, how Moorish culture affected the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and all their colonies and colonists.