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Topic: The biggest European was an Arab!!!!!!!
Posted By: Bosnjo
Subject: The biggest European was an Arab!!!!!!!
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 15:17

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.

 

He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.



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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 15:40
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.


 


He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.


I wouldn't say that to a Corsican if I were you. The Corsicans are a mix of mainly indegineous and Italic, plus Greek, French and Germanic elements.


Posted By: Bosnjo
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 16:08
Why they speak still Arabic. Each folk is mixed.

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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 16:21
Originally posted by Bosnjo

Why they speak still Arabic. Each folk is mixed.

Corsu is a Latin language.


Posted By: Bosnjo
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 16:52

Weel you are right. It is a Mix, like in Malta and both sounds very arabic.

But like South-Italians they look like Arabs, and they were under Arab occupation from 8 to 10 century.



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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 17:05
Originally posted by Bosnjo


But like South-Italians they look like Arabs, and they were under Arab occupation from 8 to 10 century.



Well, almost. It was under Arab control 713-770s, and was subjected to a couple of Moorish invasions in the first decade of the 9th century, but these were totally exterminated by son of the HREmperor himself. Other than that, it mostly belonged to the Franks with the exception of another half-century of nominal Moor control ending in 930. The Arabs sure added their mix to the gene pool, but to say they are Arabs is like saying the Irish are Norwegians, or the Poles Russians.


Posted By: Bosnjo
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 17:14

Poles and Russians are geneticaly the same, they are Slavists like myself.

 



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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 17:17
Originally posted by Bosnjo

Poles and Russians are geneticaly the same, they are Slavists like myself.


 


I bet the Poles will appreciate that. Well, let's say it's like claiming the Ests are Russians then. I think you get my point


Napoleon was a member of an old Italian family anyway.

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Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 18:08
Slavic is linguistic, not Genetic.


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Posted By: Frederick Roger
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 18:23
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.

 

He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.

Pardon me for saying this, but that is just plain stupid.



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Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2005 at 18:42
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.


 


He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.



Where do you get all this from? Do you make it up as you go along?
I dare you to go to Ajjacio and spread your good news there.

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Posted By: sennacherib
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 03:42
Dude, Bosnjo... you have some serious identity issues.


Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 05:01
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.

 

He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.

who?

who is the father of modern Europe?

 



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Posted By: Berosus
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 06:06
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.

 He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.



Are you sure you're not confusing Corsicans with Maltese?  I understand the language of Malta is a Semitic one, and I remember hearing stories about Malta having close ties with Libya in the 1980s.

To Azimuth:  I believe the "Father" he's talking about is Napoleon Bonaparte.  But didn't he originally have an Italian name, Napoleone Buonaparte?


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Posted By: Capt. Lubber
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 09:43
But didn't he originally have an Italian name, Napoleone Buonaparte?


Correct, but i wouldn't go as far as to say Napoleon is the father of modern Europe. It was a team effort, made by many. No one man could ever be the "father" of something as big and complex as modern Europe.

If corsicans in general are arabs, Napoleon was at the most quarter-corsican. His father was from Italy. Mother from Corsica, but mother's father was swiss

There is, of course, the possibility that Napoleon's grandfather was an arab. Haven't found out that yet.

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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 09:52

Originally posted by Capt. Lubber


There is, of course, the possibility that Napoleon's grandfather was an arab.

Of course, after all his grandmother could be a cheater



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Posted By: Capt. Lubber
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 10:37
Originally posted by Yiannis

Originally posted by Capt. Lubber

There is, of course, the possibility that Napoleon's grandfather was an arab.


Of course, after all his grandmother could be a cheater



i of course meant grandmother

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Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 11:05
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.




Just remembered, wasn't the father of modern Arabia a European ? Guess who I mean!

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Posted By: Murph
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:06
i thought the father of arabia was ishmael?

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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:22
Originally posted by Murph

i thought the father of arabia was ishmael?



Lawrence!

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Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:30
Originally posted by Styrbiorn



Lawrence!


That's the one: "Lawrence of Arabia", T.E. Lawrence, British Officer, who almost single-handedly liberated Arabia from Ottoman rule during WW1(.... at least according to the film)

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Posted By: Bosnjo
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:36

Originally posted by Komnenos

Originally posted by Styrbiorn



Lawrence!


That's the one: "Lawrence of Arabia", T.E. Lawrence, British Officer, who almost single-handedly liberated Arabia from Ottoman rule during WW1(.... at least according to the film)

He freed Arabs from the Ottoman Empire to bring them under the Britain Occupation, and to establish a state by European colonists, on their land.

 



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Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:38
Originally posted by Bosnjo

He freed Arabs from the Ottoman Empire to bring them under the Britain Occupation, and to establish a state by European colonists, on their land.


 



As I said, the father of modern Arabia.

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Posted By: Degredado
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:55
Wasn't Napoleon a rather smallish man?

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Posted By: cattus
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 12:56
Originally posted by Capt. Lubber

But didn't he originally have an Italian name, Napoleone Buonaparte?


Correct, but i wouldn't go as far as to say Napoleon is the father of modern Europe. It was a team effort, made by many. No one man could ever be the "father" of something as big and complex as modern Europe.

If corsicans in general are arabs, Napoleon was at the most quarter-corsican. His father was from Italy. Mother from Corsica, but mother's father was swiss

There is, of course, the possibility that Napoleon's grandfather was an arab. Haven't found out that yet.



Letizia's father was not Swiss. Her father was Giovan Ramolino. After Giovan's death, her mother Angela Maria married Swiss officer Francois Fesch.
There is no evidence that Napoleon had any Arab.

Napoleon's family is not indigenous to Corsica. Both sides of his family came from Italy to obscure Corsica at the time for hire via the Genoese and always carried strong ties to the Italian peninsula. Napoleon was of Italian stock.

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Posted By: white dragon
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2005 at 17:04
"Wasn't Napoleon a rather smallish man?"

i heard somewhere he was about 5 foot 3 inches. so, yeah pretty short

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Posted By: Aristoteles
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2005 at 00:15
El Awrence

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Posted By: Capt. Lubber
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2005 at 00:54
He was 168 cms

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Deyde in his sleep, with shame and dishonour,
Bleedinge ay at the nose in dronkenesse,
A captayin shoulde live in sobrenesse


Posted By: Alparslan
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2005 at 02:19

Originally posted by Styrbiorn

Originally posted by Murph

i thought the father of arabia was ishmael?



Lawrence!

Unfortunately yes. He was much more effective than British army.



Posted By: Infidel
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2005 at 13:55

At least Peter O'Toole got recognition...



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Posted By: Polish-UkrainianCanadian
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2005 at 17:22
Poland is nothing. Neither slavs nor europeans. They are nothing.

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Posted By: Bosnjo
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2005 at 17:41
Too much LSD or Meskalin???

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15-Feb-2005 at 01:36
Originally posted by Styrbiorn

Originally posted by Murph

i thought the father of arabia was ishmael?



Lawrence!


Man that's hollywood!! not history!
Anyways, a lot of you think north africans are arabs. WRONG! majority or us are Amazighs or otherwise called "berbers". we have our own languages etc... could napolean be one of us ?


Posted By: Infidel
Date Posted: 15-Feb-2005 at 10:05
«one of you», only if you mean when he invaded Egypt.

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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 15-Feb-2005 at 14:51
Originally posted by Amazigh


Originally posted by Styrbiorn

Originally posted by Murph

i thought the father of arabia was ishmael?



Lawrence!


Man that's hollywood!! not history!

Actually it's history, and I haven't seen the movie.

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Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 15-Feb-2005 at 18:15

Lawrence is NOT father of modern Arabia, Arabian land is from Muritania in the west to Oman in the east and from Syria in the north to Somalia in the South

Lawrence was in Jorden area Only which does not represent all Arabia

it is very wrong to consider Lawrence as father of Arabia, History does not say that

 

 



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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16-Feb-2005 at 00:34
Originally posted by azimuth

Lawrence is NOT father of modern Arabia, Arabian land is from Muritania in the west to Oman in the east and from Syria in the north to Somalia in the South

Lawrence was in Jorden area Only which does not represent all Arabia

it is very wrong to consider Lawrence as father of Arabia, History does not say that

 

 



Hold on a second! why are you including north africa in arabia ?!?! i can give you egypt but other than that north africa is not arabia.


Posted By: lars573
Date Posted: 16-Feb-2005 at 11:59
Hell even Egypt isn't arabia.


Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 23-Feb-2005 at 20:42

 

 

all the countries in north africa are Arabic and part of the Arabian land

 

 

 

 



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Posted By: Emile Boutros
Date Posted: 24-Feb-2005 at 21:23
North Africa is part of the Arab world. Those who say itis not are either Berber nationalists (who are a minority of the population) or intellectually dishonest. In Algeria, we speak a dialect of Arabic and most identify as Arabs. This is true in Libya (though Qaddafi has given up the nationalist cause), Mauritania, the W. Sahara and northern Chad and in some of Morocco (it is a majority Berber). If you mean "Arabia" as in just the penninsula, then no, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Libya ----westward is not Arabia. However one may extend the meaning to include North Africa. Azimuth is correct. There are minorities though, Berbers and such who are not Arab and are the natives.


Posted By: Alparslan
Date Posted: 25-Feb-2005 at 01:54

North Africa is populated by Arabs except a tiny minority. Andulus civilization in Spain was culturally Islam and ethnically Arab. (Most developed civilization of Europe in its time.)  

Originally posted by Komnenos

Originally posted by Styrbiorn



Lawrence!


That's the one: "Lawrence of Arabia", T.E. Lawrence, British Officer, who almost single-handedly liberated Arabia from Ottoman rule during WW1(.... at least according to the film)

Lawrence was very influential against Ottomans and he was also backed with huge financial sources. They took most of the the support from desert Arab bedouins at the beginning, the most backwarded part of Arab society and unfortunately they have been selected as new rulers of new born Arab countries after I WW.  This fact is still influential in todays' political and religious life of Arab countries. 

In fact at the beginning of the war British army has been defeated in Iraq front and pushed back until the shores of Iranian Golf. The British army under the command of general Townshend has been captured in Kut by a 14.000 British war prisoners in April 1915. In April Lawrence was authorized to offer the Turks £1,000,000 to quit the siege of Kut, though he doubled it, Turkish commander Khalil Pasha rejected it scornfully. But in 1917 it became impossible for Turks to defend the lands because of lack of supply due to sabotages and revolts. In the 9th December of 1917 we have lost Jarusalem to British troops in Sinai front. (Background was the Acabe attack of Lawrence).       



Posted By: Exarchus
Date Posted: 25-Feb-2005 at 07:31
Originally posted by Bosnjo

Why they speak still Arabic. Each folk is mixed.


Corsicans don't speak Arabic at all, their language is a mix of Italian and French (more Italian than French). I can understand some part of it. I don't think any arab can.


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Posted By: Emile Boutros
Date Posted: 25-Feb-2005 at 13:02
Originally posted by Alparslan

North Africa is populated by Arabs except a tiny minority. Andulus civilization in Spain was culturally Islam and ethnically Arab. (Most developed civilization of Europe in its time.)       

 

North Africa has a large nonARab minority. Morocco is a majority Berber and Algeria (my country) is a bout 25% Berber. There are some areas (the Kabyle for example) where you may go and meet noone who speak Arabic natively for miles.  Also the Andulus civilzation was ruled by Arabs (and Berbers) but most of the people were native Iberians. Many of the settlers to al Andulus were not Arab at all but were Berbers (Tarq ben Ziyad was Berber himself) of various tribes.



Posted By: Killabee
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2006 at 17:00
I heard the so-called "Arab" people in North Africa are actually Arabized Berbers. There actually weren't alots of Arab migration to North Africa during the Islam Conquest.  Most of the Berbers adopted Arab custom  and Muslim faith and several generations passed by their offspring started calling themselves "Arab".


Posted By: Sino Defender
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2006 at 19:08

i have a question:

what color of the human race are arabs considered as?

white or what?



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Posted By: Killabee
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2006 at 19:24
Originally posted by Sino Defender

i have a question:

what color of the human race are arabs considered as?

white or what?

They are considered "white" even their skin color varies from olive to white.  



Posted By: malizai_
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2006 at 20:59
Originally posted by Alparslan

Lawrence was very influential against Ottomans and he was also backed with huge financial sources. They took most of the the support from desert Arab bedouins at the beginning, the most backwarded part of Arab society and unfortunately they have been selected as new rulers of new born Arab countries after I WW.  This fact is still influential in todays' political and religious life of Arab countries. 

Serves the arabs right for trusting us british, they would have been better off under the ottomans. They should have known that we never make a promise that we intend to keep. Obviously, unless money, oil or other resources are involved.

No such thing as a free lunch with us i am afraid! That is why the imperial imheritance went to the Americans.

But ultimately it was masterfull strategy by a generation of visionaries of a bygone past. 



Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2006 at 21:18

 

What an utter nonsense Napoleon was french. He was born one year after Corsica was annexed by France. Being of italian origin increase his frenchness since the Romans were part of the four major lines (Gaul, Frank, burgundian and Roman) from which most french descended.

 Corsicans are all french, Napoleon wasn't italian (in fact he held them in contempt) and what is this abomination of Corsican being arabs?



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Posted By: ill_teknique
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 11:29
Originally posted by Komnenos

Originally posted by Styrbiorn



Lawrence!


That's the one: "Lawrence of Arabia", T.E. Lawrence, British Officer, who almost single-handedly liberated Arabia from Ottoman rule during WW1(.... at least according to the film)
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He was also a pedophile.


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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 12:51
Originally posted by Bosnjo

The father of the Modern Europe was an Arab.

 

He is from Korsika, and Korsiks are christianised Arabs, they speak still arabic. Guess who I mean.



Guess you mean Napoleon...

That Napoleon is the father of modern Europe is very arguable...

... but what is definitively wrong is to say that Corsica is Arab.

Corsica, like Sardinia, speaks a dialect of Latin.

It was under Arab control only for a very short period.

It has never been part of the Arab World.


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Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 15:08

The Arab conquest of the Middle East and North Africa established Arab rule over the whole area (for a time). But there simply weren't enough Arabs to significantly affect the gene pool everywhere.

Even the Berbers were relatively late comers to North Aftrica - being the descendants of the Vandals, no?

Calling everybody in the former Arab empire 'Arabs', even though they may speak Arabic and have Arab cultural institutions, makes little more sense than calling people in the former British Empire British because their official language is English, they have Parliaments and they play cricket.

 



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Posted By: cebeci
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 15:32
Originally posted by malizai_

Originally posted by Alparslan

Lawrence was very influential against Ottomans and he was also backed with huge financial sources. They took most of the the support from desert Arab bedouins at the beginning, the most backwarded part of Arab society and unfortunately they have been selected as new rulers of new born Arab countries after I WW.  This fact is still influential in todays' political and religious life of Arab countries. 

Serves the arabs right for trusting us british, they would have been better off under the ottomans. They should have known that we never make a promise that we intend to keep. Obviously, unless money, oil or other resources are involved.

No such thing as a free lunch with us i am afraid! That is why the imperial imheritance went to the Americans.

But ultimately it was masterfull strategy by a generation of visionaries of a bygone past. 

a very accurate positioning!!! very accurate..

your words must be put at once into the elementery school textbooks in all the arabic world as well as in underdeveloped and developing countries, in order no to be mislead in the future again



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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 15:33
Originally posted by gcle2003

Even the Berbers were relatively late comers to North Aftrica - being the descendants of the Vandals, no?
 



No.

The Vandals left as little legacy in North Africa as other germans left in Gaul, Italy or Hispania.

Berbers are natives of North Africa.


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Posted By: RomiosArktos
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 15:58
I have heard that Napoleon was French of Italian origin.His family originated from Lombardy,Milan.I think there is a statue of Napoleon there.


Posted By: Ahmed The Fighter
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 16:47
 The story of the Arab of north africa  was a very important story in arab history it considered as myth led by the hero Abu Zaid Al Hilaly,infact the population of N.A was a berbers majority and many states founded in this useless desert like Idrisid,Rustamid,Aghlabid and finally the Fatimid empire when the Fatimid defeated the Ikhshidid in Egypt the moved their state's heart from N.A to Egypt and founded Cairo,they left a vassel state(Zirid)in north Africa but after a short time the Zirid declared indpendence from Fatimid,Fatimid caliph became very angry and decide to revenge but he was not strong enough to wage a war like this therefor he encoureged Banu hilal(Arabic tribe lived in Arabia) to conquer and settle in north africa,they quickly defeated the Zirids and deeply weakened the neighboring Hammadids. Their influx was a major factor in the Arabization of the Maghreb, and in the spread of nomadism in areas where agriculture had previously been dominant.


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Posted By: Ahmed The Fighter
Date Posted: 07-Feb-2006 at 17:00

Originally posted by RomiosArktos

I have heard that Napoleon was French of Italian origin.His family originated from Lombardy,Milan.I think there is a statue of Napoleon there.
You are partialy right,Infact Napoleon was born in Corsica which held for Centuries by Genoa but ceded it to France in 1768 A.D to help pay off a debt.

and Napoleon Bonaparte was born 1769 A.D, Damn One year.



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Posted By: ramin
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 00:44
Originally posted by azimuth

all the countries in north africa are Arabic and part of the Arabian land
hold on a sec sailor! stop boiling. According to yourself Arabian plate is this area:


to ramin 

the above map shows that the Gulf is naturaly Arabian

see the borders of the Arabian Plate




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Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 05:56

yea !!

whats your point?

or you having problems knowing what Arabian plate means and what Arabian land means?



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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 06:47
@azimuth,
 i would rather call what you described as a part of the arab world or in some cases arab dominated (language and cultural) than actaully arab land. Claiming this all as arab land when the tradional people still exist within countries like algeria,morroco mauratania, sudan, somalia is a bit rich,  alot of the sahara  is Taureg land not arab land. Mauretania is arab dominated with alot of non arabs. Somalia is somalian not arab. Sudan is arab dominated not arab.
With your logic Darfur would be becoming arab land soon....watch out chad!!

Genetically most north africans no matter what world they belong to have berber blood more than anything.

As for napolian, i know ill get shot for this, but there is a theory that he may also have some maniot (greek) blood in the mix aswell.



Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 07:48
Originally posted by Maju

Originally posted by gcle2003

Even the Berbers were relatively late comers to North Aftrica - being the descendants of the Vandals, no?
 



No.

The Vandals left as little legacy in North Africa as other germans left in Gaul, Italy or Hispania.

Are you claiming the Germanic invaders left no significant traces in Gaul or northern Italy? There are no Franks in France and no Lombards in Lombardy?



Berbers are natives of North Africa.

I won't argue with that (it's why I put 'no?' at the end of my statement). I'm happy to accept 'Berber' as meaning the original inhabitants of the area.

It doesn't affect the main thrust of my statement that there weren't enough Arabs to significantly affect the gene pool - in fact it rather reinforces it.

For the Berber/Arab balance look at http://i-cias.com/e.o/berbers.htm - http://i-cias.com/e.o/berbers.htm  

Do you see anything wrong with http://www.historyofjihad.org/africa.html - http://www.historyofjihad.org/africa.html  ?

Actually you've shown in the past some interesting genetic maps of Europe - do you have any for North Africa?



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Posted By: sedamoun
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 08:01

Originally posted by ill_teknique

Originally posted by Komnenos

Originally posted by Styrbiorn



Lawrence!


That's the one: "Lawrence of Arabia", T.E. Lawrence, British Officer, who almost single-handedly liberated Arabia from Ottoman rule during WW1(.... at least according to the film)
.

He was also a pedophile.

No Bosno, i think he was a homosexual not a pedophile. He was in love since his young age with one of his arabic "companions"/friend.

Cheers.



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Posted By: Maziar
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 14:30

I think a better way to find out if north africans are arabs or not, is to ask themselves. We could ask them how they feel as arab or non arab. Perhaps want north african forumers answer this question. 



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Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 18:22
Originally posted by gcle2003

Are you claiming the Germanic invaders left no significant traces in Gaul or northern Italy? There are no Franks in France and no Lombards in Lombardy?



I think Maju is also confusing the term Germanic with the terms Germans which aren't the same. A Germanic is someone that resided in an area defined as Germania prior to the Barbarian invasion. A German is somehow newer in the making.

And he is wrong if he meant the Germanic didn't have an impact on Gaul. The Frank who can be classified as Germanic although their ultimate origin was out of the Germania founded the nation of France (neustria northern France). Up to 15% of the old french vocabulary were from Frankish and Frankish literally altered the structure of the language so that the language spoken in northern France wasn't the same as that spoken in southern France. And prior to the barbarian invasion do you know what percentage of Frankish population had been recorded settling in Gaul, nearly 20% and that prior. It is possible the Frank was a majority in some region of France of northern France even before the invasion. And no nation has contributed more to the creation of France as the Frank, in fact, France was named after the Franks. So a true french is actually a Frank mixed with the initial population, then, the name Franc (Frank) was extended to every part of the conquered territory. Franc became Francais (Frankish = french) Check the intensity of Frankish tombs with weapon  in northern France prior to Frankish invasion. I sometime don't believe the Frank quite invaded, they seemed to have been there already. It was probably a rebellion rather than an invasion, the people took the power from the romans and moved down to chase the other barbarians. To back that theory, all agricultural tools in northern France in the 4th century were of Frankish origin meaning the Frank peasants were already an integral of northern France. In the south the tools had latin names.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v286/TemplarX2/?">BurialsiteinFrance.jpg

 

THere are also the burgundi they were celtic but they were Germanic.

As for the Lombard their impact on Italy were minimal (at most they left their name to a region), in fact the Frank may have had a bigger impact than the Lombard. The Franks defeated the Lombard and northern Italy were temporarily Frankish. The Franks usually had a tradition of chasing barbarians and even forcing christianity onto them (Saxons come to mind), except in the case of the burgundi they fell on a bone and the Burgundi were there to stay in France, and infact to become a fierce enemy of France until they were subdued by the Sun king and assimilated.



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Posted By: Maziar
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 22:10

Aren't the germanic people nations which speaking a germanic language?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_peoples - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_peoples  in this list i can see many tribes who are in fact Germans.



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Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 00:33
Originally posted by Maziar

Aren't the germanic people nations which speaking a germanic language?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_peoples - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_peoples  in this list i can see many tribes who are in fact Germans.

 

Well if a tribe stay for centuries in Germania it is very likely they will catch many germanic words and the language gradually transform, but a Frank has little in common racially with say a Goth and the Frankish language differs greatly from the language of the Goths. Germania was rather a dynamic places where many tribes transited for centuries. By definition anyone that had transited in that area long enough to  be culturally changed can be considered as Germanic but they were far from being an homogenous group. The Franks originated east of the Danudes while the Goth came from scandinaia. THe burgundians were without any doubt a celtic tribes so were the bavarii who descended from the Boii.

 The word Germanic is therefore not to be confused with the word German.

 

This site is a propaganda site trying to pass everything for Germanic. For instance it is well known the English are in fact mostly decendent of the britons later they came under the control of an anglo-saxon minority which was nearly destroyed  the french-norman-Angevin who killed most of anglo-saxons ruling elite or displaced them.

The Germanic were simply a mosaic tribes residing in Germania long enough.



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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 04:47
Germanic are Germans and other peoples of Germanic language/culture as Danes, Dutch, etc. I confuse nothing: the terms can be used indistictly before the creation of a German state after Charlemagne.

Unlike Quetzacoatl, I don't think that Franks or Burgundians can be called Celtic, though as all southern Germans they had a celtic background. I also don't call French or English Celtic, the main reason being that their languages are not Celtic.

Of course, for Celtomaniacs... everything is Celtic but that's their problem not a realistic reference.

...

The influence of Germans, even in France (Northern France and Belgium), was small, specially when compared with Latin and Catholic influences. Yet France (Northern France and Belgium) was probably the region of Romania more affected by such influences... after Britain, of course.


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Posted By: Exarchus
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 05:19
@Quetzalcoualt

What is this book? I wouldn't mind reading it.


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Posted By: sedamoun
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 06:29
Originally posted by Maziar

I think a better way to find out if north africans are arabs or not, is to ask themselves. We could ask them how they feel as arab or non arab. Perhaps want north african forumers answer this question. 

My father is from Morocco, near Tangiers. He is very light skined with black eyes and hair (it is white now...). He, of course sees himself as an arab, but he is aware that many Atlas berbers married into his family, which makes him x% (?) berber. This can explain the lightness of his complexion.

His family doesn't speak Tamazigh nor some other berber dialect. His granfather had four wives (one which was a slave from southern morocco/mauretania/senegal (?) before he impregnated her and converted her to islam). Hence having Unlces and cousins who are mixed black-arabic-berbers...

This makes my father's family a very mixed genetic pool.

We speak arabic (north african dialect which is not understandable by Middle Eastern people - we understand them but they don't really understand us) and refer to our family as Arabic so of course we se ourselfs as Arabs.

I personally don't beleive in the distinction between Arabs/Berbers/Sahraouis in North Africa ... since the 750's, the whole of NA is a mixing pot/melting pot for all the local populations plus some elements added by the Andaluz Caliphate and the European colonization.

I have much respect for berbers and kabils, their history is great with civilizations/kingdoms like Numidia and Mauretania (Roman and pre-roman). I hate the fact that they are oppressed and silenced by the Moroccan and Algerian GVTs.    

Cheers.



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Posted By: Maziar
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 07:06
@Sedamoun, thank you for your insight. For me personally are skin colors or genetics irrelevant, relevant is how the people feel and how they classification themselves culturally. I am kurdish azeri mix and i don't care about it much becouse i feel  only Iranian.

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Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 17:49

Originally posted by Exarchus

@Quetzalcoualt

What is this book? I wouldn't mind reading it.

 

Simply entitled "The Franks" by Edward James. It discusses mostly about the impact of the Franks in northern France how they affected the language, the society etc creating the nucleus of future France. Before that there was absolutely no concept of french whatsoever. Without the Franks, France would have been a mosaic of kingdoms today.

It also put emphasis that the Franks quickly became Franco-Roman (of course Roman here Gallo-roman)



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Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 18:14

Originally posted by Maju

Germanic are Germans and other peoples of Germanic language/culture as Danes, Dutch, etc. I confuse nothing: the terms can be used indistictly before the creation of a German state after Charlemagne.

Germanics weren't Germans for the simple reason most of them didn't originate in Germania and a german culture didn't exist in those days. As I've emphasis German. Language alone doesn't make a people.


Unlike Quetzacoatl, I don't think that Franks or Burgundians can be called Celtic, though as all southern Germans they had a celtic background. I also don't call French or English Celtic, the main reason being that their languages are not Celtic.

 

I would pass on for I can't find the information I require that but know I strongly disagree. In racial term burgundian were celtic. The germanophone only brought the language. Race matters more than language. An indian speaking English doesn't make him an Englishman.

Of course, for Celtomaniacs... everything is Celtic but that's their problem not a realistic reference.

Just like Germanophile pass everything for germans which is absoloute nonsense.



The influence of Germans, even in France (Northern France and Belgium), was small, specially when compared with Latin and Catholic influences. Yet France (Northern France and Belgium) was probably the region of Romania more affected by such influences... after Britain, of course.

Latin influence wasn't that great in northern France after the barbariab invasion only in southern France was it of importance. THe Franks  had a more important effect on northern France than the latin overhall. The laws, architecture, agricultural practice, language influence, style of war of Northern France were all Frankish while the south was roman. The difference was so sharp that the people of the south only call those of the north as french until the 14th century.

 

In fact French only appeared after the Franks, old french was basically romance and Frankish. The structure of french differs considerably from all other latin languages for that reason. Just like English differs a lot from Germanic language due to considerable french influence.

90% of surnames in Northern France are in fact of Frankish origin. And the Franks were in Northern even before the

Anyway here is an extract of Edward James The Franks, to demonstrate how deeply embedded the Franks was in northern Gaul society even before the Barbarian invasion.

The Merovingian were infact "Gallish-germanishe Mischcivilization"

 

http://photobucket.com/albums/v286/TemplarX2/?">Frank4.jpg

 



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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11-Feb-2006 at 14:52
Originally posted by Maziar

I think a better way to find out if north africans are arabs or not, is to ask themselves. We could ask them how they feel as arab or non arab. Perhaps want north african forumers answer this question. 


Please note that my english is poor
Thank you very mush for your post. It is very wise.

I am Amazir (Berber). I am from http://www.north-of-africa.com/IMG/gif/kabylia.gif - Kabylia ( in today Algeria). We are 8 millions in Kabylia and 3 millions outside, mainly in france(1.5 M).
The North african states claim they are arab and muslim, i am not arab and i am not muslim. Berbers are the original people of North africa. They still live in the Canaries Island ( http://www.afrique-du-nord.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=18 - Guanches ), Morocco( http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=121 - majority ), http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=140 - Algeria (30-40 %), http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=74 - Tunisia (10%), http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=163 - Lybia (25%), Egypte ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis - Siwa oase , >100000), Mali-Niger-Burkina ( http://www.en.original-people.eu.org/tuareg-africa.shtml - Tuareg 5 M).
This was the percent of berber speaking, the rest er arabized berber speaking local arabic.

The Berbers generaly are recovering their identity after decades of arabization. Berber gave emperors to Rome(Severus), pharaon (Sheshonq), Saint Augustine, Apuleus.
The historie of Berbers is great and rich and can not be assimilated to the arab world.

Så i feel Berber ...


Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 11-Feb-2006 at 16:01
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl

Originally posted by Maju

Germanic are Germans and other peoples of Germanic language/culture as Danes, Dutch, etc. I confuse nothing: the terms can be used indistictly before the creation of a German state after Charlemagne.

Germanics weren't Germans for the simple reason most of them didn't originate in Germania and a german culture didn't exist in those days. As I've emphasis German. Language alone doesn't make a people.


Language alone is what actually constitutes a nation or ethnicity (at least in most cases).

Germany is the state/country of some Germans, the same that Vasconia is the state/country of Basques.

Unlike Quetzacoatl, I don't think that Franks or Burgundians can be called Celtic, though as all southern Germans they had a celtic background. I also don't call French or English Celtic, the main reason being that their languages are not Celtic.

I would pass on for I can't find the information I require that but know I strongly disagree. In racial term burgundian were celtic. The germanophone only brought the language. Race matters more than language. An indian speaking English doesn't make him an Englishman.

There's no "racial" terms: Burgundians spoke a Germanic tongue and therefore were Germans. You may mean that they belonged to the part of Germans that had a strongest Celtic background...

... but while this is likely for Franks or Alamani/Suabi, it is very unlikely for a tribe that used to live in Poland.

Of course, for Celtomaniacs... everything is Celtic but that's their problem not a realistic reference.

Just like Germanophile pass everything for germans which is absoloute nonsense.

I'm not germanophile. I just realize that 90% of the people of Europe nowadays speak either Romance, Germanic or Slavic. And the linguistic division in Western Europe was about the same (with the notable exception of the British islands, the recession of Basque and the Germanic assimlation of the nord-Alpine lands) in the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

I also refuse to seek Gauls everywhere... I am fine if that was the case (to Caesar what is of Caesar...) but obviously Celts were never in Poland nor Bornholm, the ancestral home of the Burgundian tribe before 300.

The names of the early Burgundian kings are strikingly Scandinavian: Gundahar (Guther) and Brünhild, could be Swedes but hardly Welsh.

The influence of Germans, even in France (Northern France and Belgium), was small, specially when compared with Latin and Catholic influences. Yet France (Northern France and Belgium) was probably the region of Romania more affected by such influences... after Britain, of course.

Latin influence wasn't that great in northern France after the barbariab invasion only in southern France was it of importance. THe Franks  had a more important effect on northern France than the latin overhall. The laws, architecture, agricultural practice, language influence, style of war of Northern France were all Frankish while the south was roman. The difference was so sharp that the people of the south only call those of the north as french until the 14th century.


While I agree that French is without doubt thje most germanized Romance dialect, it is Latin after all. If Latin "wasn't that great in Northern France", your surely would be speaking German (Frankish) now.

In fact French only appeared after the Franks, old french was basically romance and Frankish. The structure of french differs considerably from all other latin languages for that reason. Just like English differs a lot from Germanic language due to considerable french influence.

I agree with this observation but you must concede that without an important presence of Latin, there's no reason for French to have evolved.

90% of surnames in Northern France are in fact of Frankish origin.

It may be but I'm pretty sure that the Romance surnames must dominate over those of Germanic (Frankish) origin.


Anyway here is an extract of Edward James The Franks, to demonstrate how deeply embedded the Franks was in northern Gaul society even before the Barbarian invasion.

The Merovingian were infact "Gallish-germanishe Mischcivilization"

 

http://photobucket.com/albums/v286/TemplarX2/?">Frank4.jpg


Maybe... in any case France (Northern France) is the region of the Western Empire that (after Britain, naturally) suffers a strongest Germanic influx. South of the Loire that influence exists but it is just a thin layer.



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Posted By: Leonidas
Date Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 03:30
Hi afertutu, i myself am quite intersted in berber culture i look forward to your opinions on such topics.


Posted By: Nart_Saga
Date Posted: 16-Feb-2006 at 15:54
Originally posted by Maju

Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl

Originally posted by Maju

Germanic are Germans and other peoples of Germanic language/culture as Danes, Dutch, etc. I confuse nothing: the terms can be used indistictly before the creation of a German state after Charlemagne.

Germanics weren't Germans for the simple reason most of them didn't originate in Germania and a german culture didn't exist in those days. As I've emphasis German. Language alone doesn't make a people.


Language alone is what actually constitutes a nation or ethnicity (at least in most cases).

Germany is the state/country of some Germans, the same that Vasconia is the state/country of Basques.

Unlike Quetzacoatl, I don't think that Franks or Burgundians can be called Celtic, though as all southern Germans they had a celtic background. I also don't call French or English Celtic, the main reason being that their languages are not Celtic.

I would pass on for I can't find the information I require that but know I strongly disagree. In racial term burgundian were celtic. The germanophone only brought the language. Race matters more than language. An indian speaking English doesn't make him an Englishman.

There's no "racial" terms: Burgundians spoke a Germanic tongue and therefore were Germans. You may mean that they belonged to the part of Germans that had a strongest Celtic background...

... but while this is likely for Franks or Alamani/Suabi, it is very unlikely for a tribe that used to live in Poland.

Of course, for Celtomaniacs... everything is Celtic but that's their problem not a realistic reference.

Just like Germanophile pass everything for germans which is absoloute nonsense.

I'm not germanophile. I just realize that 90% of the people of Europe nowadays speak either Romance, Germanic or Slavic. And the linguistic division in Western Europe was about the same (with the notable exception of the British islands, the recession of Basque and the Germanic assimlation of the nord-Alpine lands) in the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

I also refuse to seek Gauls everywhere... I am fine if that was the case (to Caesar what is of Caesar...) but obviously Celts were never in Poland nor Bornholm, the ancestral home of the Burgundian tribe before 300.

The names of the early Burgundian kings are strikingly Scandinavian: Gundahar (Guther) and Brünhild, could be Swedes but hardly Welsh.

The influence of Germans, even in France (Northern France and Belgium), was small, specially when compared with Latin and Catholic influences. Yet France (Northern France and Belgium) was probably the region of Romania more affected by such influences... after Britain, of course.

Latin influence wasn't that great in northern France after the barbariab invasion only in southern France was it of importance. THe Franks  had a more important effect on northern France than the latin overhall. The laws, architecture, agricultural practice, language influence, style of war of Northern France were all Frankish while the south was roman. The difference was so sharp that the people of the south only call those of the north as french until the 14th century.


While I agree that French is without doubt thje most germanized Romance dialect, it is Latin after all. If Latin "wasn't that great in Northern France", your surely would be speaking German (Frankish) now.

In fact French only appeared after the Franks, old french was basically romance and Frankish. The structure of french differs considerably from all other latin languages for that reason. Just like English differs a lot from Germanic language due to considerable french influence.

I agree with this observation but you must concede that without an important presence of Latin, there's no reason for French to have evolved.

90% of surnames in Northern France are in fact of Frankish origin.

It may be but I'm pretty sure that the Romance surnames must dominate over those of Germanic (Frankish) origin.


Anyway here is an extract of Edward James The Franks, to demonstrate how deeply embedded the Franks was in northern Gaul society even before the Barbarian invasion.

The Merovingian were infact "Gallish-germanishe Mischcivilization"

 

http://photobucket.com/albums/v286/TemplarX2/?">Frank4.jpg


Maybe... in any case France (Northern France) is the region of the Western Empire that (after Britain, naturally) suffers a strongest Germanic influx. South of the Loire that influence exists but it is just a thin layer.

 

Did you scan this or something how do you do it??

 

Anyway back to  topic:

 

 I am the father & the holy creator of Europe.




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