Moro

Moro may refer to:

Events

• Moro Crater massacre, an engagement in the Philippine–American War
• The Moro River Campaign, a World War II campaign between Allied and German forces on the Moro river and its headwaters in Italy in 1943
• Moro insurgency in the Philippines, religion-based civil war in the Philippines between the Catholic government and Islamic separatists (1969–2014)

Groups

• Moro people, the mostly Muslim people of Southern Philippines
• Moro people, also known as the Ayoreo people, an indigenous people of Bolivia and Paraguay
• Moru people, an ethnic group in Southern Sudan
• Moro people, also known as the Moro Nuba people, a subgroup of the Nuba people in Sudan

Languages

• Moro, an alternative name for the Ayoreo language, spoken in Peru and Bolivia
• Moro language, a Kordofanian language spoken in South Sudan

People

• Aldo Moro (1916–1978), Italian politician and prime minister
• Andrea Moro (born 1962) Italian linguist and neuroscientist
• Cristoforo Moro (1390-1471), 67th Doge of Venice
• Ernst Moro (1874–1951), Austrian physician and pediatrician
• Fabio Moro (born 1977), Italian footballer
• Iván Moro (born 1974), Spanish Olympic water polo champion
• Oscar Moro (1948-2006), Argentine rock musician
• Sérgio Moro (born 1972), Brazilian federal judge

Places

Asia

• Moro Station, Japanese railway station
• Moro, Pakistan, a city in Sindh province
• Moro Province, a former province of the Philippines

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, among rivers in Sierra Leone

North America

• Moro, former name of Taft, California
• Moro, Oregon, the county seat of Sherman County, Oregon
• Moro Township, Madison County, Illinois

Europe

• Móró, the Hungarian name for Morău village, Cornești, Cluj, Romania
• Moro (Italian river), a river in Italy

Other uses

• Moro (chocolate bar), a brand of chocolate bar made by Cadbury
• 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
• Moro, a cultivar of the blood orange
• Moros y Cristianos (food), the Cuban version of rice and beans

See also

• Moor (disambiguation)
• Moro-moro (Moros y cristianos), a play popular in the colonial-era Philippines
• Moro reflex