 Muslims Albanians are thus often pejoratively named and or called by Greeks as "Turks", represented in the expression ""Turkalvanoi"".As with the term "Turk", the expression (rendered also as Turco-Albanian) was employed by some writers mainly in nineteenth and early twentieth century Western European literature regarding Muslim Albanian populations.As such, the word "Turk" within its usage also attained derogatory and derisive meanings that when applied to other words created pejorative meanings of "cruel" and "inhumane behavior" and or of being "backward" and "savage".