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Poem by Lord Byron
The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 by John Murray and printed by Thomas Davison. It was the first
The_Giaour
Non-Muslim person (of the Ottoman Empire)
Giaour or Gawur or Gavour (/ˈdʒaʊər/; Turkish: gâvur, Turkish pronunciation: [ɟaˈvuɾ]; from Persian: گور gâvor; Romanian: ghiaur; Albanian: kaur; Greek:
Giaour
1786 novel by William Beckford
stays in the area and eventually hears Giaour's voice telling him that if he worships the Giaour and the jinns of the earth, and renounces the teachings
Vathek
Polytheistic religious groups
religion in the Roman Empire. Individuals fell into the pagan class either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian
Paganism
Three paintings by Eugène Delacroix
Lord Byron's 1813 poem The Giaour, with the Giaour ambushing and killing Hassan, the Pasha, before retiring to a monastery. Giaour had fallen in love with
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan
The_Combat_of_the_Giaour_and_Hassan
Secret Irish republican political organisations
from the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. The main Fenian organisations were the Irish Republican Brotherhood
Fenians
Female figure and also place of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation
Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of malevolence as mentioned in the Book of
Whore_of_Babylon
Sunni polemical term to refer to Shiites
with Ali ibn Abi Talib (r. 656–661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In particular, the term Rafida appears in Sunni polemics
Rafida
Former evangelical Christian movement
The Jesus movement was an evangelical Protestant movement that began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily
Jesus_movement
Archaic derogatory term for Roman Catholicism
accepting the authority of the Pope over the Christian Church. The words were popularised during the English Reformation (1532–1559), when the Church of
Popery
Ottoman child levy and enslavement
viziers from the 15th century to the 17th century. This was the second most powerful position in the Ottoman Empire, after the sultan. Initially, the grand viziers
Devshirme
Word meaning 'non-Jew'
portal Gentile Goyslop Shabbos goy Gadjo, a non-Romani person Ger toshav Giaour Kafir "Definition of Goy". Collins Dictionary Online. Retrieved 21 September
Goy
Ethnic slur directed at Jewish people
Kike (/kaɪk/), also known as the K-word, is an ethnic slur directed at Jews. The etymological origin comes from the Yiddish word for circle, קײַקל (kaykl)
Kike
Religious slur
in Pakistan. The term originates from Qadian, a small town in northern India, the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement
Qadiani
Name given to common people by Ottomans
discrimination against the latter, viewed of as infidels (giaour). Although the term initially and generally was used to encompass all of the subject lower class
Rayah
Look up slur or epithet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have
List_of_ethnic_slurs
Railroad bridge in Turkey
The Varda Viaduct (Turkish: Varda Köprüsü), aka Giaour Dere Viaduct, locally known as "Alman Köprüsü" or "Koca Köprü" (literally: German Viaduct or Big
Varda_Viaduct
Term referring to members of the Wesleyan-Holiness movement in the US
and Holy Jumper are terms originating in the 18th century that have been used to refer to adherents of the Methodist tradition, such as Free Methodists
Holy_Roller
Ethnic slur used to refer to a black African person
Africa. The word had become a pejorative by the mid-20th century and is considered extremely offensive in post-apartheid South Africa. The use of the slur
Kaffir_(racial_term)
Russian legendary creature
that Pushkin borrowed and adapted the word from Lord Byron's "The Giaour", which contains a footnote claiming that the Greek word for a vampire is "Vardoulacha"
Vourdalak
Artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
with the first part of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in 1812, followed by four "Turkish tales", all in the form of long poems, starting with The Giaour in
Romanticism
1995 American film
1813 work The Giaour, a seminal work in the English language on vampires. Byron is regarded as the creator of the modern vampire character, the aristocratic
Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats
Bram_Stoker's_Burial_of_the_Rats
Social structure of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the most dominant empires in the Mediterranean region, having lasted ~600 years and controlling much of the eastern and
Social class in the Ottoman Empire
Social_class_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
Persian word of non-Muslims
referred to as Gabristans. In the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish version gâvur, borrowed into English via French as "giaour", was used to refer to Christians
Gabr
Term describing Muslims who engage in excommunication
the traditional interpretations of Islamic law (Sharia), the punishment for apostasy is death. Potentially a cause of strife and violence within the Muslim
Takfiri
Term for disbelievers in Islam
(Christian term) Goy (Jewish term) Ahl al-Fatrah Divisions of the world in Islam Giaour Kafirun (Sura) Kaffir (racial term) Takfir Takfiri Mumin Munafiq
Kafir
Term for Zoroastrians
referred to the Magi, the Zoroastrian priestly caste of ancient Persia. In Arabic usage, it was soon generalized to denote all Zoroastrians. The term was
Majus
British poet (1788–1824)
with the poem's last two cantos, as well as four equally celebrated "Oriental Tales": The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, and Lara. About the same
Lord_Byron
Non-Muslims living in an Islamic state
protections and restrictions. The word literally means "protected person", referring to the state's obligation under sharia to protect the individual's life, property
Dhimmi
Poem written by Lord Byron
Poems", along with The Giaour, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, The Corsair and Parisina. These poems contributed to his poetic fame at the time in England.
The_Bride_of_Abydos
Mythical creature
Christabel and Lord Byron's The Giaour. Byron was also credited with the first prose fiction piece concerned with vampires: "The Vampyre" (1819). This was
Vampire
Expression in the English language
The origins of the term remain unclear. One possible meaning is of someone who creeps around a packed church to pray at each of the Stations of the Cross
Creeping_Jesus
1819 unfinished vampire horror story written by Lord Byron
vampirism in his notes to the 1813 work The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale: The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant. Honest Tournefort
Fragment_of_a_Novel
Pejorative term for Bengali Hindus
as a slur by the Muslims against the non-Muslims. Nirmal Kumar Bose noted the usage of the term as early as 1946 in Noakhali. During the 1971 Bangladesh
Malaun
Individuals who identify as Muslim but reject at least one of the tenets of Islam
Manichaeism religion in the Sasanian Empire. By the time of the eighth-century Abbasid Caliphate however, the meaning of the word zindīq and the adjectival zandaqa
Zandaqa
Art museum in Illinois, United States
Portrait of Henry Dearborn, 1812 Eugène Delacroix, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826 John Simpson, The Captive Slave, 1827 Édouard Manet, Seascape Calm
Art_Institute_of_Chicago
Type of antihero often characterized by isolation and contemplation
Pilgrimage, the Byronic hero made an appearance in many of Byron's other works, including his series of poems on Oriental themes: The Giaour (1813), The Corsair
Byronic_hero
insulting manner. Giaour Word for a person who is not Muslim, but especially for a Christian. Adapted from the Turkish gâvur. In the Ottoman Empire, it
List_of_religious_slurs
Islamic religious term meaning apostate, heretic, or atheist
pre-Islamic times the term was used in the literal sense of the root l-ḥ-d: "incline, deviate". Its religious meaning is based on the Quranic verses 7:180
Mulhid
Person seen as professing orthodoxy to mask actual belief
publicly misrepresenting their religious faith to conceal their true beliefs. The term is sometimes defined as referring to a Protestant who lived in a Catholic
Nicodemite
Term for preliminary Buddhism before Mahayāna
Vehicle", is an umbrella term for the early Buddhist schools, at one time used by the Mahāyāna school to refer to the pre-Mahāyāna Buddhist paths to liberation
Hinayana
Jewish ethnonym of Yiddish origin
Look up yid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word Yid (/ˈjiːd/; Yiddish: איד), also known as the Y-word, is a Jewish ethnonym of Yiddish origin
Yid
Independent court pertaining to personal religious laws of Ottoman subjects
answerable only to the Sultan. During the 19th century rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire, as a result of the Tanzimat reforms (1839–76), the term was used
Millet_(Ottoman_Empire)
Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Tales: Manfred, Cain, The Prophecy of Dante, The Prisoner of Chillon, Fugitive Pieces, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan, The Giaour…. e-artnow. p. 3399
De_Bathe_baronets
Epithet of religious discrimination
after the passage of Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan which declares that Ahmadia are not Muslims and Ordinance XX. Ahmadis are the followers
Mirzai
Derogatory term for Catholics in America
the South Pacific during 1944 (the screenplay compares the rituals and commitment of the Catholic Church and the United States Marine Corps). In the film
Mackerel_snapper
English novelist and aristocrat (1785–1828)
Ponsonby, was severely injured in the Battle of Waterloo, in the days after the battle, she had an affair with the Duke of Wellington. She was related
Lady_Caroline_Lamb
Pejorative for a non-Jewish woman or girl
romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging term for a gentile woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew
Shiksa
1830 painting by Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène
Liberty_Leading_the_People
Lebanese writer and journalist (1861–1929)
Antar "... was considered the most important event of Arabic nationalism organized abroad". Another of his plays, La Giaour (the Infidel), was set to music
Chekri_Ganem
Turkish writer, poet, and sociologist (1914–2020)
touring the southeastern region is similar to shouting 'from now on, no one will call Giaours Giaour' during the Second Constitutional Era." After the death
Cahit_Tanyol
1829 English poem by Derozio
her lover. The poem has been compared to Lord Byron's so-called "Turkish Tales" like The Giaour and to Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem "The Improvisatrice"
The_Fakeer_of_Jungheera
Vampire in Slavic and Turkic folklore
introduced to the English-language culture as a "vampyre", mentioned by Lord Byron in The Giaour in 1813, described by John William Polidori in "The Vampyre"
Upiór
Disbeliever in central tenets of a religion
followed the teachings of the Church versus those who are outside the faith. Christians used the term infidel to describe those perceived as the enemies
Infidel
Concept that emerged towards the end of the Tanzimat period
developed prior to the 1876–1878 First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire. Its proponents believed that it could create the Unity of the Peoples, İttihad-ı
Ottomanism
1819 short story
compare The Black Vampyre to The Vampyre, a short story by John William Polidori due to the way that it references Lord Byron's "The Giaour." The Black
The_Black_Vampyre
Shiite polemical term to refer to Sunnis or heterodox sect of Islam
who promoted sayings about the supposed exalted qualities of Abu Bakr in response to proto-Shiite compilations about the qualities of Ali and his claim
Bakriyyah
French painter (1798–1863)
lithographs and paintings from Goethe's Faust. Paintings such as The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826), and Woman with Parrot (1827), introduced subjects
Eugène_Delacroix
the Ottoman Empire's economy and traditional society. The main sources of slaves were wars and politically organized enslavement expeditions in the Caucasus
Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
Castle in Haymana, Ankara, Turkey
Ghiaour and Giaour castle, all meaning infidel's castle (from Gavur), is a castle located in the Dereköy neighborhood of Haymana, on the road to the Kara Ömerli
Gavur_Castle
Satiric poem by Lord Byron
is a giaour, a non-Muslim. The narrator Byron then comments that "in the East, they are extremely strict, / And Wedlock and a Padlock mean the same"
Don_Juan_(poem)
British painter (1821–1893)
in 1840, a work inspired by Lord Byron's poem The Giaour (now lost) and then completed a version of The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, with his cousin
Ford_Madox_Brown
significant minority in the Ottoman Empire. They belonged to either the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Armenian Catholic Church, or the Armenian Protestant
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
Armenians_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
Jewish school of thought
religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly
Misnagdim
Founder of England's first Mosque
in the expedition against these Muslims that he thereby helps the Giaour against the Muslim, and his name will be unworthy to be continued upon the roll
Abdullah_Quilliam
Literature of the Romantic Period
with the first part of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in 1812, followed by four "Turkish tales", all in the form of long poems, starting with The Giaour in
Romantic_literature
Delacroix's fascination for the Giaour by Lord Byron". Le Louvre. 17 March 2021. "A Romantic Duel, Delacroix's Fascination for "The Giaour" by Lord Byron - Musée
2020_in_art
Anti-communist and antisemitic canard
Żydokomuna is related to the "Jewish world conspiracy" myth. The idea originated as anti-communist propaganda at the time of the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1920)
Żydokomuna
This is a list of the 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge locomotives of the Great Western Railway. It excludes those purchased from constituent companies
List of GWR broad gauge locomotives
List_of_GWR_broad_gauge_locomotives
Ethnic slur
with the typical person, with phrases like Tadhg an mhargaidh ("Tadhg of the market") akin to "the man on the Clapham omnibus" or "average Joe". In the late
Taig
Restauration, H. Souverain, 1837 La Robe rouge, 2 vol, H. Souverain, 1839 Le Giaour, Grand Opera in 3 acts, with Louis Tavernier, music by Jules Bovéry, 1839
Antony_Rénal
Church described in the Book of Mormon
In the Latter Day Saint movement, the great and abominable church (also called the great whore of all the earth) is a church described in the Book of Mormon
Great_and_abominable_church
Period of Ottoman rule of Greece
Greece should be a monarchy, and the Bavarian Prince Otto was chosen to be its first King. Greece portal Dragomans Giaour Greek Muslims List of former mosques
Ottoman_Greece
Mormons, have traditionally used the term gentile to describe outsiders, but such usage has declined among Mormons. Giaour (Turkish; gâvur) Also spelled
List of terms for ethnic out-groups
List_of_terms_for_ethnic_out-groups
Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre
This short story was inspired by the life of Lord Byron and his poem The Giaour. An important later work is Varney the Vampire (1845), where many standard
Genre_fiction
Vampirism in modern media
broadcast in March 1979. Host Vincent Price opened the program by using a stanza from Lord Byron's The Giaour regarding vampires. There were also a few Inner
Vampires_in_popular_culture
Ottoman-Jewish physician
1554) (Amon) was the son of Joseph Hamon, born in Spain. Going with his father to Constantinople, he became physician to Suleiman the Magnificent. This
Moses_Hamon
Turkish storyteller
Lord Byron's poem The Giaour originated as having been "by accident recited by one of the coffee-house story-tellers who abound in the Levant, and sing
Meddah
Village in Gaziantep Province, Turkey
Türkyurdu, historically Gâvurköy (lit. 'giaour village'), is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Şehitkamil, Gaziantep Province, Turkey
Türkyurdu,_Şehitkamil
prison. 1 June – Last speech in House of Lords. 8 June – First edition of The Giaour published. 20 June – Met Madame de Stael for first time. 26 June – Augusta
Timeline_of_Lord_Byron
Fire in Istanbul in 1660
Constantinople (now Istanbul) was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1660. The chronicler Abdi Paşa estimated that the fire destroyed 280,000 houses and burned
Great_Fire_of_1660
Enslavement of people of European descent
(also white slave trade or white slave trafficking) refers to the enslavement of any of the world's European ethnic groups throughout human history, whether
White_slavery
Discrimination against the Greek people
used in the United States, targeting Greek and other Mediterranean people. Giaour – A slur used in the Ottoman Empire, targeting the people of the Balkans
Anti-Greek_sentiment
Topics referred to by the same term
(disambiguation) Giaour, a historical slur for non-Muslims Guar, a green vegetable Guar gum This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gaur
Gaur_(disambiguation)
Monumental medieval tombstones in the Balkans
tursko groblje 'Muslim cemetery', and kaursko groblje 'Giaour cemetery'. They are characteristic of the territory of present-day Herzegovina, central Bosnia
Stećak
Greek national poet (1798–1857)
made to associate the incomplete Solomian works with the fragmentary works of romantic literature (such as Kubla Khan by Coleridge, Giaour by Lord Byron and
Dionysios_Solomos
Conjectural literary genre
poem The Giaour (1813), Lord Byron alludes to the traditional folkloric conception of the vampire as a being damned to suck the blood and destroy the life
Vampire_literature
Ethnolinguistic community recognized in Ottoman law
the Ottoman Empire. It was established by the Ottoman authorities for the Aromanians (also known as "Vlachs"; Turkish: Ulahlar) in 1905, during the rise
Ullah_millet
1955 state-sanctioned violence against minorities in Turkey
businesses. According to the eyewitness account of a Greek dentist, the mob chanted "Death to the Giaours" (infidels), "Massacre the Greek traitors", "Down
Istanbul_pogrom
Literature written in or related to the United Kingdom
and his poem The Giaour. Irish writer Bram Stoker was the author of seminal horror work Dracula (1897) with the primary antagonist the vampire Count
British_literature
of Kehama (1810) Lord Byron – his four "Turkish tales": The Bride of Abydos, The Giaour, The Corsair (1814), Lara, A Tale (1814), and other works Samuel
List of artistic works with Orientalist influences
List_of_artistic_works_with_Orientalist_influences
List of gothic literary works
Lenore (1773) Frances Burney, The Wanderer (1814) William Butler, The House of Balestrom (2011) Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813) and Fragment of a Novel
List_of_gothic_fiction_works
1827 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
ongoing strivings towards perfection. The poem was influenced by Lord Byron's drama Manfred and his poem The Giaour in both manner and style. Poe may have
Tamerlane_(poem)
Label applied to Balkan Muslims
Mačva". Giaour Ottoman wars in Europe Turkoman (ethnonym) Mentzel 2000, p. 8. Fotić 2017, p. 62. Zemon 2014, p. 143. Mient Jan Faber (1996). The Balkans:
Turk_(term_for_Muslims)
Unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs
characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of
Fundamentalism
British artist (1800–1868)
The Sentinel's Temptation. 3. Landscape - An Arrow from an unseen hand has delivered the Knight from a treacherous Ambush. 4. Scene from "The Giaour"
George_Cattermole
Bulgarian actress (1991–2021)
27 May 2021) was a Bulgarian actress. In 2014, Kamburova graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She later played in
Lorina_Kamburova
1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull
Byron's 1813 poem The Giaour and Sir Richard Francis Burton's 1885 version of One Thousand and One Nights entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and
The_Sheik_(novel)
Work by Mary Shelley
alongside William Beckford's novel Vathek (1786), Lord Byron's poems The Giaour and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818), Thomas Hope's Anastasius (1819)
The Evil Eye (1830 short fiction)
The_Evil_Eye_(1830_short_fiction)
Flat horse race in France
Bacchus 1940: no race 1941: Plaisir de France 1942: Young Phalaris 1943: Giaour 1944: Ardan 1945: Taiaut 1946: Fasano 1947: Koos 1948: Royal Drake 1949:
Prix_de_Guiche
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