a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather

a little town in the moors

make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor

twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside

we moored alongside a jetty

a member of a north-western African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century

for centuries Córdoba was the Moors' capital and one of Europe's most sophisticated cities