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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Saor Alba, post: 746322, member: 21607&quot;]Philip II was contemporaneously referred to as Philip the Arab, he was apparently from N. Africa.&nbsp; Similarly in the Ottoman Empire it was possible from someone to rise from a lowly slave all the way into the Janissaries and the Ottomans were remarkably tolerant of other religions like Christianity and Judaism.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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