[bell-cot]

The article is about some low-tech but historically effective water-management techniques, brought to Spain by the Muslim conquest (711-721). It walks back very quickly on the headline's claim of "invention". And mentions that similar techniques were independently invented in other parts of the world.

Note: "Moor" is both a wretchedly vague exonym, and often a mild ethnic slur.

[usrusr]

I only know the region as a repeat tourist (just came back from my second visit this year), but my impression from this is that locals are quite proud of their cosmopolitan past and "moro" is the simply term they use for their melting pot ancestors of that era. Nothing negative about it at all.

[throwawaybutwhy]

Last name of Matamoros (kills moors) is a thing, and the banner of Santiago defined the nation for centuries.

[justnah]

>but my impression from this is that locals are quite proud of their cosmopolitan past and "moro"

Literally no one is.

There is a vast difference between giving credit for a given concept/tool/technique because it's useful, and thinking the locals have sort of ancestral connection with a foreign invader.

[jvican]

Don't speak for a whole country. There are people that are proud of this heritage, like me, and many more, especially in the places where Moorish culture had a stronghold (e.g. Andalusia, C. Valenciana, Murcia, etc.)