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19 hours ago · Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until around 400 BC, when they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today. All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the Phoenician ...
19 hours ago · The Phoenician alphabet [b] is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BCE. It was the first mature [clarification needed] alphabet, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems, the ...
19 hours ago · Languages; Predominantly Modern and Pontic Greek. Also the languages of their respective countries of residence (Those include Armenian, Georgian, Russian, Turkish and Urum language) Religion; Greek Orthodox Christianity, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Sunni Islam (mostly in Turkey), other Christian denominations: Related ethnic groups
19 hours ago · The name Gabriel ( Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, Gaḇrīʾēl) is composed of the first person singular possessive form of the Hebrew noun gever (גֶּבֶר), meaning "man", and ʾĒl, meaning "God". This would make the translation of the archangel's name "man of God" [9] [10] [11] or "power of God". In Arabic, Jibrīl (جبريل), means ...
19 hours ago · Phrygians spoke an Indo-European language, but it was closer to Greek, rather than Anatolian languages. Phrygians shared Anatolia with Neo-Hittites and Urartu. Urartu’s capital was around Lake Van. Urartu was often in conflict with Assyria, but fell with the attacks of Medes and Scythians in seventh century BC.
19 hours ago · Precise demographics are further obscured by the Ottoman policy of dividing the population according to religion rather than descent, language, or self-identification. On the other hand, contemporaneous British and American statistics (1919) support the point that the Greek element was the most numerous in the region of Smyrna, counting 375,000 ...
19 hours ago · Mastic, an aromatic, ivory-coloured plant resin, is grown on the Aegean island of Chios . Greek cuisine uses some flavorings more often than other Mediterranean cuisines do, namely oregano, mint, garlic, onion, dill, cumin, and bay laurel leaves. Other common herbs and spices include basil, thyme and fennel seed.
