See MARGIANA.
MOXO, The Great.
See EL DORADO.
MOXOS,
MOJOS, The.
See BOLIVIA: ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS;
also, AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ANDESIANS.
MOYTURA, Battle of.
Celebrated in the legendary history of Ireland and represented
as a fatal defeat of the ancient people in that country called
the Firbolgs by the new-coming Tuatha-de-Danaan. "Under the
name of the 'Battle of the Field of the Tower' [it], was long
a favourite theme of Irish song."
_T. Moore,
History of Ireland,
chapter 5 (volume 1)._
MOZARABES,
MOSTARABES.
The Christian people who remained in Africa and southern Spain
after the Moslem conquest, tolerated in the practice of their
religion, "were called Mostarabes or Mozarabes; they adopted
the Arabic language and customs. … The word is from the
Arabic 'musta'rab,' which means one 'who tries to imitate or
become an Arab in his manners and language.'"
_H. Coppée,
History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors,
book 4, chapter 3 (volume 1), with foot-note._
ALSO IN:
_E. Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
chapter 51._