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- noun Plural form of
Saracen .
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Examples
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He pointed out too the river, for access to which, cut off by the superior generalship of the Romans, the barbarians, whom he called Saracens, hazarded the action, and whose streams they empurpled with their blood.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Simply because the word Saracens came to us through the Greeks
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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During the Middle Ages the Moslems to their Christian enemies were commonly known as Saracens, a term which is still in use.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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Mss. of the Escurial, and the invasion of the Saracens is postponed by a French chronicle till the ixth year after the conquest of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The popular description of the Mohammedan rulers of Spain as "Saracens" -- Easterners -- is as erroneous as the supposition that they were Arabs.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886
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My name is derived from the Arab pirates called Saracens in the Middle Ages.
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With their belief in spreading their religion by the sword, the Saracens were a far greater danger to Christendom than the Tartars.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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These unfavorable events included, at the beginning of this period, the invasion of Palestine and southern Europe including Spain, its most western state, by the Mohammedans of Arabia, often called Saracens and
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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After the occupation of Northern Africa and Spain, they were no longer call Saracens, but Moors.
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The Saracens is a piece of great power, dramatic and wild in spirit and vivid in harmonic and instrumental colouring.
Edward MacDowell Porte, John F 1922
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