White Moor (other)
White Moor may refer to: * Beidane, an Arabic term for light-skinned people in Mauritania * Harap Alb, a Romanian-language fairy tale See also * Black Moor (other) Black Moor may refer to: * Black Moor (musical group), a heavy metal band * Black Moor (Rhön), a wetland habitat in Germany * Black Telescope goldfish, known as black moor, a variant of telescope eye goldfish * " Harap Alb", a 1877 Romanian-lang ...

Beidane
Bidān or Beidan, also spelled Baydan or Beydan (), is an Arabic term used in the Maghreb region of North Africa to refer to lighter-skinned or white Moors, in contrast to the term Sudani (sg.), which refers to those with a darker complexion. The Bidān inhabit most of what is now Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and, to a lesser extent, Egypt. The Bidān refers to those of Arab, Berber, or mixed Arab and Berber descent; The main language of the Bidān is Hassaniya Arabic and to a lesser extent Tamazight (Berber). Bilad Es Bidān (which literally means Land of the whites) is an endonym used within Mauritania and Western Sahara by the Bidān people to refer to themselves. The name used by outsiders to refer to the Bidān is Moors from which the country of Mauritania derives its name from the Latin designation of their inhabitants (Mauri) as the Bidan form the majority of the population. "Moor" is not the term for a specific ethnic group, but rather the term used by ...
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Harap Alb
"Harap Alb" or "Harap-Alb" () is the protagonist as well as the title of a Romanian-language fairy tale by Ion Creangă, known in full as ''Povestea lui Harap Alb'' ("The Story of Harap Alb"). He is the youngest of three princes. "Harap Alb" received much posthumous attention from literary critics, and inspired works in other genres. These include Ion Popescu-Gopo's film '' De-aş fi Harap Alb'', a Postmodernist novel by and a comic book by Sandu Florea, alongside one of Gabriel Liiceanu's theses in the field of political philosophy. Name Harap Alb in Romanian signifies "White African"''Library of Congress Subject Headings'' (1996), Vol. II:D-J, Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, Washington, D. C., p. 2328. ISSN 1048-9711Lamb, Ruth S. (1984), "Romanian Drama", in Stanley Hochman (ed.), ''The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Vol. 4: O-S'', McGraw-Hill, New York, p. 248. or "White Arab". The word ''harap'' is an antiquated form of ''arap'' derived fr ...
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