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* Arthurian literature has featured Moorish knights since Sir Morien in the 13th Century.
* In the medieval romance ''King Horn,'' Saracens invade Suddene (a mythical kingdom in the British Isles). This is probably a [[Race Lift]] as the villains act just like Viking conquerors, but by the time the story was written down Vikings had become passe and the Crusades were the new hot topic.
* The later [[Sven Hassel]] novels introduced Stabsgefreiter Albert Mumbuto, a black soldier in the German army of [[WW 2]]. However the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20080624083002/http://www.svenhassel.info/ Porta's Kitchen] mentioned a documentary where several black Germans were interviewed, including at least one soldier.
** Germany had had an African colonial empire until 1919 so there were a number of African-Germans long after that. This matter surfaces in Istvan Szabo's movie ''Mephisto'', taking place in the 1930s, in which the protagonist, a famous theatre director, has an African-German mistress and therefore gets chastised by an angry Hermann Göring.
** Even if pretty unexpected for a modern reader, the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]] held no special grudge against Blacks—Nazi [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005479 racism towards blacks] [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=blacks is well-documented] and horrible, but it wasn't as systematic as their main targets.
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* This effect is certainly older than the past two millennia, it's just hard to see clear examples after that long. When the armies of Alexander the Great marched across Central Asia, they buggered everything in sight and left garrisons and deserters in their wake, drawn from every corner of the conquest, but most have disappeared into the population at large since then. But high in the Hindu Kush mountains, there still exist tiny villages of almost pure-ethnic Greeks in isolated valleys, wholly integrated with local culture but still instantly recognizable. Journalists who've encountered them remark that, even 2300 years on, they look like Europeans doing a poor imitation of Afghans.
* DNA analysis has recently suggested that not one but four or five African and Indian groups may be (as they claim) Lost Tribes of Israel. Besides the famous Ethiopian and Ugandan Jews who got airlifted by Israel in the 70s, a full-blown ''tribe'' in Tanzania recently got themselves tested to prove their claim that the tribe itself were a lost tribe of Hebrews, since the Roman era. (Being cut off, they didn't know any other Jews existed, so they adopted local language and customs.) And the Indian group had become a caste claiming Hebrew descent, although they had more contact with the west.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121122125358/http://news.discovery.com/history/vikings-native-american-woman.html DNA analysis of Icelandic people] has recently revealed that the Norse may have brought back a native american woman with them to Iceland, well before Columbus. Native American Viking indeed.
* [[wikipedia:Yasuke|Yasuke]], a black retainer to [[Nobunaga Oda]].
* In a more recent example, Victorian Britain is portrayed as being completly white, yet Carribean people have been have been [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209204524/http://www.itzcaribbean.com/black_people_history.php living in Britain since slavery was abolished.] They are possibly overlooked because many people in power preferred not to mention them at all.
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