 The English term was introduced in the 19th century, replacing the earlier "Barbary".The Berbers are the "Mauri" cited by the "Chronicle of 754" during the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, to become since the 11th century the catch-all term "Moros" (in Spanish; "Moors" in English) on documents of the Christian Iberian kingdoms to refer to the Andalusi, the north Africans, and the Muslims overall.For the historian Abraham Isaac Laredo the name Amazigh could be derived from the name of the ancestor Mezeg which is the translation of biblical ancestor Dedan son of Sheba in the "Targum".