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thumb|Théodore Géricault: The Giaour (1820, lithograph; [[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)]] thumb|Eugène Delacroix: The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826, oil on canvas; [[Art Institute of Chicago), inspired by Lord Byron's The Giaour]]
Giaour or Gawur or Gavour (; , ; from gâvor; ; ; ; ; Bosnian; kaur/đaur) meaning "infidel", is a slur used mostly in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire for non-Muslims or, more particularly, Christians in the Balkans.
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