- Lists of disparaging terms
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List of ethnic group names used as insults
*List of ethnic slurs
*List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity
*List of regional nicknames
*List of religious slurs
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JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period … Encyclopedia of Judaism
