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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Explanation: Many figures before the rise of modern nation-states do not neatly fit into our national/ethnic categories, and some people get quite... passionate about who is placed where - especially when talking about figures seen as national heroes. Saladin was a Kurd from Armenia who ruled over a Turkic Empire based in Arabic Egypt and the Levant. Try sorting that out with your local nationalists!

[โ€“] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

In Britain, our nationalists like to ignore that "St George" was a Turk from Palestine.