Maurus
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Maurus is a Latin
given name. It can refer to:
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Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
given name. It can refer to:
- The inhabitants of ancient MauretaniaMauretaniaMauretania is a part of the historical Ancient Libyan land in North Africa. It corresponds to present day Morocco and a part of western Algeria...
Persons:
- Saint Maurus of ParentiumSaint Maurus of ParentiumSaint Maurus of Parentium is the patron saint of the Croatian city of Poreč, called Parentium in Roman times. The Church has existed in Istria since the times of the early Christian martyrs. St. Maurus was the first bishop of Poreč and the Istrian diocese who suffered a martyred death in the late...
(3rd century) the first bishop of Parentium and the patron saint of Poreč. - Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus (Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856)
- Blessed Maurus of Nitra (Maur, Mór) (c. 1000 - c. 1070)
- Saint MaurusSaint MaurusSaint Maurus was the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia . He is mentioned in St. Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate; offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life. Four stories involving Maurus recounted...
(c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia. - Mister Maurus, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen TammsaareAnton Hansen TammsaareAnton Hansen Tammsaare , born Anton Hansen, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel"....
- the surname of Sylvester MaurusSylvester MaurusSylvester Maurus was an Italian Jesuit theologian.-Life:He entered the Society of Jesus, 21 April 1636...
- Maurus the KuberKuberKhan Kuber was a Bulgar leader, brother of Khan Asparukh and member of the Dulo clan, who according to the Miracles of St Demetrius, in the 670s was the leader of a mixed Christian population of Bulgars, ‘Romans’, Slavs and Germanic people that had been transferred to the Syrmia region in Pannonia...
brother to Tervel's father Asparukh and son of KubratKubratKubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....
Kaghan of Patria Onoguria.
Other:
- Maurus, a genusGenusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of gossamer-winged butterflies nowadays usually included in Plebejus
See also:
- Mauro (disambiguation)
- Maura (disambiguation)
- San Mauro (disambiguation)
- Mauritius (given name)
- MauretaniaMauretaniaMauretania is a part of the historical Ancient Libyan land in North Africa. It corresponds to present day Morocco and a part of western Algeria...
an ancient kingdom and late Roman province