A Moroccan man by José Tapiro y Baro c. 1876 & The Moorish Chief by Eduard Charlemont c. 1878
In 711 A.D., troops of Moors led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania…
In 368 A.D., this same Race, were known as “painted people” or Picti…
In reciting the victories of the Roman general Theodosius, Claudian says—
“Ille leves Mauros, nec falso nomine Pictos”—
Consequently, the translation of Claudian’s line is this—
“He subdued the swift Moors, not falsely named Picts”
Claudian's lines have revealed to us that the historical Picti of Britain were, ethnologically, Mauri, being Picti only by custom…
Therefore the Picts of Galloway were the Moors of Galloway…
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