ext_36450 ([identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-11-28 10:19 pm (UTC)

Not so curiously, that goes to the first point about cultural/administrative differences. Orthodoxy began in the Hellenic half of the Roman Empire which was far more multi-cultural but solidly ruled by Greek overlords, Roman Catholicism in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire. Both sides developed thus interesting vocabulary, with the Muslims adding Ferenji into the mix based on an attempt to render Frank into Arabic.....

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