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Where did the first barbarians appear?

The word "barbarian" originated in ancient Greece. They called all strangers who did not speak Greek (for the Greeks, the incomprehensible speech of these strangers merged into the sounds of "var-var").

The Romans borrowed this word, calling all peoples barbarians, except themselves and the Greeks. Although the Arabs were also included in this list, they adapted the word and called all non-Arabs in North Africa Berbers.

Later, the word "barbarian" entered many other languages in a similar sense - to refer to foreigners, representatives of a foreign and incomprehensible culture.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj spent more than 11 years in a pre-trial detention cell in The Hague, where the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia operates. The court sentenced him first to 15 and then to 18 months in prison for disclosing information about witnesses for the prosecution. Seselj was then given a third contempt sentence - he received two years for refusing to testify in his defense. Only in November 2014 he was allowed to return to Serbia, given a conditional release for health reasons, and in 2016 he was fully acquitted.

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