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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 2734131, member: 74968&quot;]Great coin Mat!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia</p><p><b>Saracen</b> was a term widely used among Christian writers in Europe during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" rel="nofollow">Middle Ages</a>. The term&#039;s meaning evolved during its history. In the early centuries AD, Greek and Latin writings used this term to refer to the people who lived in desert areas in and near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia_Petraea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia_Petraea" rel="nofollow">Roman province of Arabia</a>, and who were specifically distinguished as a people from others known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people" rel="nofollow">Arabs</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen#cite_note-daniel1-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen#cite_note-daniel1-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen#cite_note-retso1-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen#cite_note-retso1-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> In Europe during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Medieval" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Medieval" rel="nofollow">Early Medieval</a> era, the term came to be associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_tribes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_tribes" rel="nofollow">Arab tribes</a> as well.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> By the 12th century, &quot;Saracen&quot; had become synonymous with &quot;Muslim&quot; in Medieval Latin literature.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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