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Moro Movement
The Moro Movement was a sociopolitical and religious movement founded by Pelise Moro in the late 1950s on Guadalcanal, seeking improvement through co-operative enterprises and a return to custom.
Moro National Liberation Front
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Moro armed movement founded 1972 by Nur Misuari; signed the 1976 Tripoli Agreement and 1996 Final Peace Agreement with the Philippine government under OIC mediation, distinct from the splinter MILF.
Moro people
Moro people (Bangsamoro): Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, Philippines. Named after Spanish "Moors"; largest groups Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug; 7.11 million (6.5%) in the 2020 census; history of Spanish, American, and post-1946 conflict.
Moro raids
Moro raids were seaborne slave-raiding expeditions by Iranun and Balangingi raiders, sponsored by the Sulu and Maguindanao sultanates, that struck Philippine coastal settlements from 1590 until the mid-nineteenth century.
Moro Rebellion
The Moro Rebellion was an armed conflict between the Muslim Moro people of Mindanao and the US military, resisting American takeover in the southern Philippines from 1899 to 1913.
Moro reflex
Moro reflex, also called the startle or embrace reflex (Umklammerungsreflex), is a primitive newborn reflex elicited by sudden head drop, with arm extension-abduction then flexion; it disappears by 2–5 months and signals clavicle fracture, brachial plexus palsy, or brain injury when absent or asymmetric.
Moroba
Moroba (मोरोबा), more widely known as Moraya Gosavi, is a Ganapatya saint held by tradition to be the spiritual progenitor of Ganesha worship at Chinchwad, near Pune.
Morobe Province
Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, and its most populous with 997,545 people at the 2024 census; its capital is Lae.
Moroccan Arabic (العربية المغربية الدارجة)
Moroccan Arabic (Darija, الدارجة) is Morocco's everyday spoken vernacular, a Maghrebi Arabic variety with Amazigh substrate and French/Spanish loanwords, spoken by ~92% (2024 census), diglossic with MSA, and lacking standard orthography.
Moroccan Army of Liberation
The Moroccan Army of Liberation, known as Jaysh al-Tahrir and the Armée de Libération Marocaine, fought French and Spanish colonial rule from 1955 until its dissolution in 1960.
Moroccan Communist Party
The Moroccan Communist Party (الحزب الشيوعي المغربي) was a communist party in Morocco founded in Casablanca in 1943 as an offshoot of the French Communist Party.
Moroccan conquest of Timbuktu
The Moroccan conquest of Timbuktu was the 1591 seizure of the Songhai city by a Moroccan expedition under Judar Pasha, sent by sultan Ahmad al-Mansur after the battle of Tondibi.
Moroccan cuisine
Moroccan cuisine (المطبخ المغربي) is Morocco's cooking tradition: an Amazigh base layered with Arab, Andalusian, Jewish and French influences, known for tagine, Friday couscous, pastilla, harira, ras el hanout, mint tea, and UNESCO-listed couscous heritage.
Moroccan dirham
The Moroccan dirham (Arabic: درهم, ISO code MAD) is the currency of Morocco, issued solely by the central bank Bank Al-Maghrib and managed against a euro-dollar basket.
Moroccan embassy of al-Ghazi to the Askiya
The Moroccan embassy of al-Ghazi to the Askiya (بعثة الغازي إلى أسكيا) was a 1580s diplomatic exchange between Morocco and Songhai, ending in the 1591 invasion.
Moroccan famine of 1877–1879
The Moroccan famine of 1877–1879 was a food crisis caused by years of drought and locust invasions, considered one of the gravest crises in Moroccan history.
Moroccan independence
Moroccan independence (استقلال المغرب) was the recovery of Moroccan sovereignty from the French and Spanish protectorates, achieved in March and April 1956 after the nationalist campaign that began under the protectorate imposed in 1912.
Moroccan invasion of Songhai
The Moroccan invasion of Songhai was a 1590 expedition by sultan Ahmad al-Mansur that crushed the Songhai Empire at Tondibi in 1591 and occupied Gao, Timbuktu, and Djenne.
Moroccan Jewish exodus to Israel
The Moroccan Jewish exodus to Israel was the mass emigration of Morocco's Jewish community, roughly 250,000 people, to Israel between 1948 and the 1970s, mostly in distinct waves.
Moroccan Jews
Moroccan Jews (Yehudei Marocco) are an ancient Jewish community of Morocco, spanning toshavim and Sephardic Megorashim strata, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Amazigh and Haketia speakers, once the Muslim world's largest Jewish community, now mostly a diaspora in Israel and France.
Moroccan labor migration to Europe
The movement of Moroccan workers to Europe, begun through state recruitment agreements in the 1960s and now one of the largest African diasporas in Europe.
Moroccan literature
Moroccan literature is the body of writing produced in or associated with Morocco, spanning Modern Standard Arabic, Darija, Tamazight, French, Spanish, and Hassaniya, with contested linguistic and national boundaries.
Moroccan national movement
The Moroccan national movement was the political campaign against French and Spanish protectorate rule (1912–1956), led by the Istiqlal Party and Sultan Mohammed V, culminating in independence in 1956.
Moroccan nationalist movement
The Moroccan nationalist movement (الحركة الوطنية المغربية) was an urban political movement born in the 1930s under French and Spanish rule, winning independence in 1956.
Moroccan occupation of the Taghaza salt mines
The Moroccan occupation of the Taghaza salt mines was the seizure of the Saharan salt-mining center of Taghaza around 1585–86 by musketeers sent by Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco.
Moroccan short story
The Moroccan short story (القصة القصيرة المغربية) is short fiction written in Morocco, mostly in Arabic but also French and Tamazight, with roughly 600 collections published.
Moroccan theatre
Moroccan theatre (المسرح المغربي) is the tradition of staged drama in Morocco, emerging in the early 1920s under colonial rule and professionalized after independence in 1956.
Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez
The Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez produce zellige, hand-cut glazed tile mosaics, and gebs, carved plasterwork, crafts Fez has kept since medieval times.
Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship
The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship (Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1786) between the United States and Sultan Mohammed III of Morocco: sealed June 23, 1786, ratified July 18, 1787, renewed 1836, the longest unbroken U.S. treaty relationship.
Moroccan–Spanish Treaty of 1767
The Moroccan–Spanish Treaty of 1767 was a peace and commerce treaty between Sultan Muhammad ben Abdallah and King Charles III of Spain, signed 28 May 1767.