Moro may refer to:

Events

Moro Crater massacre The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre, was a counterinsurgency action conducted by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps against the Moro people in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion ...

(1906), an engagement in the Philippine–American War * Moro River Campaign (1943), a World War II campaign between Allied and German forces on the Moro river and its headwaters in Italy * Moro insurgency in the Philippines (1969–2014), an ethnoreligious conflict in the Philippines between the predominantly-Catholic government and Muslim separatists

Ethnic groups

Moro people The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. ''Moro nation'' or ''Moro country''). As Muslim-majority ...

, a mostly Muslim people of southern Philippines *

Moors The term Moor is an Endonym and exonym, exonym used in European languages to designate the Muslims, Muslim populations of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Iberian Peninsula (particularly al-Andalus) during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a s ...

, the English variation of the Spanish term ''moro'' referring to Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the Middle Ages *

Sri Lankan Moors Sri Lankan Moors (; Arwi: ; ; formerly Ceylon Moors; colloquially referred to as Sri Lankan Muslims) are an ethnic minority group in Sri Lanka, comprising 9.3% of the country's total population. Most of them are native speakers of the Tamil langua ...

or Ceylon Moors, an ethnic group *

Indian Moors Indian Moors were a grouping of people who existed in Sri Lanka predominantly during its colonial period. They were distinguished by their Muslim faith whose origins traced back to the British Raj. Therefore, Indian Moors refer to a number of eth ...

, an ethnic group * Moro people, also known as the Ayoreo people, an indigenous people of Bolivia and Paraguay * Moro Nuba people, a subgroup of the Nuba people in southern Sudan * Moru people, an ethnic group in South Sudan *

Moroccans Moroccans () are the Moroccan nationality law, citizens and nationals of the Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco. The country's population is predominantly composed of Arabs and Berbers (Amazigh). The term also applies more broadly to any people who ...

, shortened form or slang referring to people from Morocco, sometimes used among immigrant communities

Languages

* Moro, an alternative name for the Ayoreo language, spoken in Peru and Bolivia * Moro language (Nigeria), an East Kainji language spoken in Nigeria *

Moro language Moro is a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, Sudan. It is part of the Western group of West Central Heiban Kordofonian languages and belongs to the Niger-Congo phylum.Gibbard, George, Rohde, Hannah, and Rose, Sh ...

, a Kordofanian language spoken in southern Sudan by the Moro Nuba people * Moru language, spoken in South Sudan by the Moru people

Places

Africa

* Moro, Kwara, a Local Government Area in Kwara State * Moro River (Mano River), a tributary of the Mano River in Sierra Leone and Liberia; see List of rivers of Sierra Leone

Asia

* Moro Station, Japanese railway station * Moro, Pakistan, a city in Sindh province * Moro Province, a former province of the Philippines * Moro, a district of Karimun Regency, Riau Islands, Indonesia

Europe

* Moro (Italian river), a river in Italy * Moro (Ribadesella), a parish of Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain * Móró, the Hungarian name for Morău village,

Cornești, Cluj Cornești (; ) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of nine villages: Bârlea (''Ónok''), Cornești, Igriția (''Kisigrice''), Lujerdiu (''Lózsárd''), Morău (''Móró''), Stoiana (''Esztény''), Tiocu de Jos (''Als ...

, Romania

North America

* Moro, former name of

Taft, California Taft (formerly Moron, Moro, and Siding Number Two) is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. Taft is located west-southwest of Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield, at an ...

* Moro, Oregon, the county seat of Sherman County, Oregon * Moro Township, Madison County, Illinois, a township in Madison County, Illinois * Moro, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Madison County, Illinois * Moro Plantation, a

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

in Aroostook County, Maine

Other uses

* Moro (chocolate bar), a brand of chocolate bar made by Cadbury * Moro (surname), a surname * Moro Movement, a social, political, and economic movement in the Solomon Islands * Moro, a camouflage pattern formerly used by several Polish military formations * Moro, a wolf-god in the Studio Ghibli animated film ''

Princess Mononoke is a 1997 Japanese animated historical drama, historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Set in the Muromachi period of Japanese history, the film follows Ashitaka, a young Emishi prince who journeys west to cure his curs ...

'' * Moro, a cultivar of the

blood orange The blood orange is a variety of orange (fruit), orange with crimson, near blood-colored flesh. It is one of the sweet orange varieties (Citrus × sinensis, ''Citrus'' × ''sinensis''). It is also known as the raspberry orange. The dark flesh ...

*Moro, a character in ''Dragon Ball Super'' series *Moro, a character in 1988

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

film '' The Needle'' played by Viktor Tsoi