Timeline for Do medieval historic references to "Semites" refer to Jews or to speakers of Semitic in general?
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @RobertColumbia - IIRC, the Byzantines during the Middle Ages generally did refer to all Western Europeans as "Franks". So there was sort of a collective word, but it wasn't language-based. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 20:17 | comment | added | Daniel | Jews were referred to as Jews. Moslems were Moslems or Saracens or later Moors. eg: Ott Jud (Ott the Jew) was a martial arts instructor in Austria known today for his treatise on grappling. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | Robert Columbia♦ | Similarly, you will not find medieval Arabic or Hebrew writings referring to Irish, Germans, Russians, Persians, or Hindis as "Indo-Europeans", even though we now know that these people spoke Indo-European languages. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 16:17 | vote | accept | Chrystomath | ||
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| Aug 30, 2018 at 13:25 | history | answered | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |