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All across the Muslim world Crusaders were equated to Franks.
When the Portuguese invaded the Sultanate of Malacca in Muslim Southeast Asia, the Sultan called the Portuguese crusaders "Franks". Despite the fact that they were Portuguese. Well that's probably due to the legacy of the crusades where most of the Outremer (Crusader States) were French speaking. Even the not-fully-French Normans which conquered England and converted Muslim Sicily, Spain, North Africa and the Levant, were also French speakers. It's just too bad that eventually, the French allied with the Ottomans just after when Constantinople was invaded. But the Spanish, just fresh from the Reconquista, stood up as replacement and opposed Muslim power, not only against the Ottomans but against Muslims the world over, from Morocco to the Moluccas, during the era of the Iberian Union.
In a way, my country, the Philippines can also be a crusader-state of sorts since we were the only major Catholic nation in the Far East...
An island of Christianity in a sea of infidels.
And we were often at war with our Muslim and Buddhist neighbors too.
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No, although some Maronites have minor French/North Italian like input as do most Muslims. Oddly enough, Greek Christians (both Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholics/Melkites), who were previously thought to have significant Greek input, turned out to be the ones who shift the most towards Arabia.
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Lebanese christians are technically sephardic-mizrahi jews (same canaanite derivatives):
https://journals.plos.org/plosgeneti...l.pgen.1003316
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The Christians, perhaps, have minor French influence in their DNA. I doubt it's significant.
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