Flamenco music was born in the Andalusian hills of southern Spain. Its basic parts, sung poetry and music, came from the Arabs and Berbers who ruled al-Andalus from the 1st century though the 15th, when the Moors were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.The name 'Flamenco' is a corruption of the colloquial Arabic phrase, felag mangu, meaning "fugitive peasant," derived from the root, "to flee." Flamenco was first used when referring to Andalusian Gypsies, but later came to refer to the dance.
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