Saracen
The Saracen or Saracen are generally terms referring to the people of the Islamic empire. It was originally a term referring to the nomads living in the Sinai peninsula at the end of the Roman Empire. It comes from the Greek Σαρακηνός, which is said to originate from the word شرقيين, which means "people living in the east" in Arabic. After the establishment of Christianity in the Arabian region, it was used as a collective name for the people living in Arabia, but since the establishment of Islam in the 7th century, it was actually used in the same sense as Islam. It is especially used to refer to Muslims in Sicily and the southern Italian peninsula. It was a word used in the early medieval Byzantine empire and spread to western Europe through the Crusades. In the past, people from Latin cultures living in Greece and Rome called the nomadic people of Syrian prairies Saraseni.