Derogatory use of 'Byzantine'

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	Byzantine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A manner of speech and bearing - see Derogatory use of 'Byzantine'
		A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or a native Greek during the middle ages.
		List of Byzantine emperors, of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byzantine

	Byzantine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A manner of speech and bearing - see Derogatory use of 'Byzantine'
		A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or a native Greek during the middle ages.
		List of Byzantine emperors, of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byzantine

	Seventh Infallible Muhammad (AS) the fifth Imam: Islamic Occasions Network
		But during the reign of Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, there rose a rift between him and the Byzantine ruler when the later decided to stamp a new currency with the phrase which was considered derogatory to the Holy Prophet.
		The Byzantine currency of the Eastern Roman Empire was valid tender in Damascus as well.
		Imam Baqir (AS) expressed his opinion that the Government ought to strike its own currency on one side of which it should stamp the statement "La Ilaha Illallah" and on the other side "Muhammad Rasul Allah".
	www.ezsoftech.com /islamic/infallible7a.asp (2467 words)

	Wallachians, Walloons, Welschen etc.
		The term acquired some derogatory connotations as the pastoralists denied completely the political order and law, often practiced robbery and when engaged as mercenaries in the regular Byzantine army proved to be very treacherous ( see the Anna Comnena account in Alexiad, Kekaumenos et al.).
		For this reason the Byzantine Greeks, who in their turn had borrowed the term Blachoi (pronounced ['vlaxi]) from the Slavic Vlakhi, often tended to use it when referring to the pastoralists in general.
		During the Ottoman rule in Bosnia (1459-1878) the Muslims refered in a derogatory manner to the Orthodox Serbs as Vlasi.
	www.orbilat.com /General_Survey/Terms--Wallachians_Walloons_Welschen_etc.html (2467 words)

	Haight Speech: MEChA: No Dissenters Allowed
		I've seen English dictionaries say that the term is often used in a derogatory way, but don't explain why.
		As far as how derogatory "yanqui" or "gringo" can be made, I think back to a conversation I had with a native of Manchester about inhabitants of Liverpool.
		From that original use, the term gabacho really is universally misused by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans when applied to United States citizens of light skin within the United States, unless it was applied to other Mexicans and Mexican Americans of light skin who have acted more like Americans than Mexicans.
	www.leftist.org /haightspeech/archives/000077.html (8152 words)

	Seventh Infallible Muhammad (AS) the fifth Imam: Islamic Occasions Network
		But during the reign of Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, there rose a rift between him and the Byzantine ruler when the later decided to stamp a new currency with the phrase which was considered derogatory to the Holy Prophet.
		It was then that the revolution of Zaid Ibn Ali brought as a continuation of the revolution of Imam Hussain (AS) and Imam Ali (AS).
		It was during the caliphate of Umer Ibn Abdul Aziz the Ummayad caliph, that the Prophets descendants enjoyed a brief period of peace which lasted for only two years and five months which is the period of his Government.
	www.ezsoftech.com /islamic/infallible7a.asp (2467 words)

	Imam Baqir
		But during the reign of Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, there rose a rift between him and the byzantine ruler when the later decided to stamp a new currency with the phrase which was considered derogatory to the Holy Prophet.
		Imam Muhammad el Baqir was said to have been higesteemed for his learning and eloquence as well as on account of his noble birth.
		This is what Umer Ibn Abdul Aziz had handed back to Muhammad Ibn Ali to rectify the wrong doing with regard to Fadak.” After this event the land of “Fadak” was handed back to the Ahlulbayt.
	www.al-islam.org /kaaba14/8.htm (2467 words)

	Derogatory use of 'Byzantine' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The very stability of the imperial state, however, probably undermined the creative impulses and innovativeness that characterized the early centuries of the remarkable Byzantine civilization, thus contributing to its eventual downfall.
		This prejudice originated, according to the medievalist Steven Runciman, from the impressions of medieval Europe with this mighty power.
		Steven Runciman, The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and his Reign, p.9.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derogatory_use_of_Byzantine (358 words)

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