These moors came from northern west Africa at Mauritania and later conquered Spain .In the etymological dictionary of the French people by Gilles Menage More is defined as black or blackish people.Mairi is the mordern name the moors of Spain hailed from Mauritania that is to say theand of the black people and not only conquered Spain but also through Spanish conquest conquered the new world.While skin of Gauls is white the moors predominantly black are Yoruba people who dominated west Africa politics and major settlement.Saint Isidore of Seville the school master of the middle ages say the moors were blacks.
At the time Strabo : Geography ,c.22.AD.,XVII.iii.l-ll made his statement that beyond the country which he ruled over that there was no habitation of men beyond great distance of land and the men under him were not black skinned like the Mauretanii the moors yet to conquer Iberian or that he had poor sense of history and I think he probably did.
I think he probably did because in the 6th century Procopius in his history of the wars Book IV had a different views when he said the German vandals were not black skinned like the moors or maurusioi . the moors.
In the Travels of Sir John Mandeville,Jean wrote though Nubians maybe christians but they be black as the moors.Due to their cosmopolitan nature and prior conquest in the latter middle ages the moors of northwest africa had been mixed up with Berbers and Arabs in their region.The term had clung to designation of dark skinned black people as early as fourteen century in term of the English usage at the Renaissance during the reformation was in top gear.
In the Chronicles of 754,the earliest European account of moorish invasion of Spain,that refers to Visigothic capitulation of Spain the so called' loss of Spain 'or ' Perdida de Espana' at the hands of arab and moors,it was elaborate.It wrote the moors were sent by Musa the Muslim governor of North Africa.
Likewise in the Estoria de Espanna' (the history of Spain),as the first vernacular composed in region did not mince any truth whatsoever when it says......."their black faces were like pitch and the most handsome of them was as black as a cooking pan".
The word moor in English language as far as middle ages has equivalent in other languages like German mohr,Greek mavro,or Polish word.
See the moors and Romans fought together after the capture of Western part of Roman empire to reconquer the Alans ,vandals and Goths.In the process they created the Spanish language during reconquer with Romans.
I think the story changed in 1100 AD when ottoman Turks came to conquer Berbers and moors.Robin hook had said the arrival of these people in Morocco,Mali,mauritania ,Sudan, Egypt, Cameroon, Eritrea, Ethiopia ,Sudan dated as far back as 7,000 to 9,000 years ago.He claimed they migrated from South India during the Ramanayam war.The war engaged 200,000 soldiers in the duel between Sri Lanka faction Ravanan and indian faction Rama.The moors controlled north Africa and places like Iberian peninsula, Sicily, Venice,Corsica,Malta,Sardinia ....."
"Jesus are you kidding me?You mean Corsica !"
"Yeah Corsica too.What?"
"Where Napoleon Bonaparte was born ,the most powerful emperor of the world.It means it was Yoruba charm that Napoleon used to control Europe for more than two decades?"
"Exactly.little wonder the first trip he took was to Egypt devised egyptology to unravel their mystery.Why did he loose against the Brits?"
"It was because the Brits too were using the same black magic .Hence they used it against him.