Like Mark ( but unlike Matthew ), the intended audience is the Greek-speaking populations of the region ; it assures readers that Christianity is an international religion, not an exclusively Jewish sect.

The fate of the Galatian people is a subject of some uncertainty, but they seem ultimately to have been absorbed into the Greek-speaking populations of west-central Anatolia thereby giving a fresh transmission of light skin, blue eyed, and fair haired ethno-types into the Greek population which by then had highly intermarried with darker ethnotypes and lost their earlier appearances.

In 620, the official language was changed from Latin to Greek, and although the Greek-speaking inhabitants were Romaioi ( Ῥωμαῖοι ), and were still considered Romans by themselves and the populations of Eastern Europe, the Near East, India, and China, many in Western Europe began to refer to the political entity as the " Greek Empire ".

It also owns channels in the US and Australia, serving the large Greek-speaking populations in those countries.

It is noteworthy that the word " Greek " or " Hellene " is not mentioned in " Thourios "; instead, Greek-speaking populations in the area of Greece are still referred to as " Romioi " ( i. e. Romans, citizens of the Christian or Eastern Roman Empire ), which is the name that they proudly used for themselves at that time.

For most of its history the church in Europe has been divided between the Latin-speaking west, whose centre was Rome, and the Greek-speaking east, whose centre was Constantinople.

The Latin-speaking west, under dreadful demographic crisis, and the wealthier Greek-speaking east, also began to diverge politically and culturally.

The Melkites were generally Greek-speaking city-dwellers living in the west of the Levant and in Egypt, as opposed to the more provincial Syriac-and Coptic-speaking non-Chalcedonians.

Although the empire fractured into multiple Hellenic regimes shortly after his death, his conquests left a lasting legacy, not least in the new Greek-speaking cities founded across Persia's western territories, heralding the Hellenistic period.

It might also have indicated that he was descended from Samosata's original Semitic population – likely to have been called " barbarians " by later Hellenistic, Greek-speaking settlers, and who might have eventually taken up this appellation themselves.

The main civilization in North America during most of the books is that of the " Ehleens "— a conglomeration of Greek-speaking Mediterranean peoples who had invaded the eastern half of North America and set up kingdoms.

There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and ancient coastal towns along the Levant.

Nestinarstvo (, ) is a fire ritual originally performed in several Bulgarian-and Greek-speaking villages in the Strandzha Mountains close to the Black Sea coast in the very southeast of Bulgaria.

* Mycenaean Greece, the Greek-speaking regions of the Aegean Sea as of the Late Bronze Age

This emphasis upon death rather than sin as man's fundamental problem Irenaeus shares with many early theologians, especially the Greek-speaking ones.

A bust of Emperor Constantius II from Syria. Ammianus was born between 325 and 330 in the Greek-speaking East, possibly at Antioch on the Orontes.

Then subsequently the city was, for more than a thousand years, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The Hebrew of the original calls the child's mother a " young woman ", but the Greek-speaking 1st century CE author of Matthew 1: 23, using the Hellenistic Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred texts, interpreted it as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.

It would remain the capital of the eastern, Greek-speaking empire for over a thousand years.

Steven Duncan, writes that " it was first formulated by a Greek-speaking Syriac Christian neo-Platonist, John Philoponus.

The Septuagint was widely accepted and used by Greek-speaking Jews in the first century, even in the region of Roman Judea, and therefore naturally became the text most widely used by early Christians, who were predominantly Greek speaking.

Autokratōr was essentially used as a translation of the Latin Imperator in Greek-speaking part of the Roman Empire, but also here there is only partial overlap between the meaning of the original Greek and Latin concepts.

Basileus appears not to have been used exclusively in the meaning of " emperor " ( and specifically, the Roman / Byzantine emperor ) before the 7th century, although it was a standard informal designation of the Emperor in the Greek-speaking East.

The origin of Christianity can also be traced through Koine Greek, as the Apostles used it to preach in Greece and the Greek-speaking world.

In contrast, in the predominantly Greek-speaking eastern half of the Roman empire ( Byzantium ), many commentators of the subsequent centuries, such as Oribasius, physician to the emperor Julian who compiled a Synopsis in the 4th century, preserved and disseminated Galen's works, making Galenism more accessible.

The cult of Antinous became very popular in the Greek-speaking world.

It has been suggested that Hadrian created the cult as a political move to reconcile the Greek-speaking East to Roman rule.

By contrast it was continually read and taught in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire where the majority of the classics also survived.

The Byzantine Empire, the successor to the ancient Roman Empire who ruled most of the Greek-speaking world for over 1100 years, had been fatally weakened since the sacking of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204.

This was called the Great Idea ( Megali Idea ), and it was sustained by almost continuous rebellions against Ottoman rule in Greek-speaking territories, particularly Crete, Thessaly and Macedonia.

All Greeks were united, however, in their determination to liberate the Greek-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

A proto-Italic homeland outside Italy is just as elusive as the home of the hypothetical Greek-speaking invaders.

After 1453, the Byzantine tradition was carried on in regions previously influenced by its religion and culture — in the Balkans and Russia, Georgia in the caucasus, and, in the Greek-speaking realm, on Crete.

Merkelbach suggests that its mysteries were essentially created by a particular person or persons and created in a specific place, the city of Rome, by someone from an eastern province or border state who knew the Iranian myths in detail, which he wove into his new grades of initiation ; but that he must have been Greek and Greek-speaking because he incorporated elements of Greek Platonism into it.

Nomadic herders such as the Amorites moved herds closer to reliable water suppliers, bringing them into conflict with Akkadian populations.

In 2004 it was moved to Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay, in India ), to make it more accessible to the populations of Asia and Africa.

It seems that certain elements of the cult of Dionysos and Semele were adopted by the Thracians from the local populations when they moved to Asia Minor, where they were named Phrygians.

However, in recent decades, breeding populations have moved east into the far western parts of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

Two implications of this are that seeds generally run true to the cultivar, and that much smaller pollinator populations are needed because pollen only has to be moved within individual flowers.

Many of the villages lost more than two thirds of their populations, as Slovenes from Slavia Veneta moved to larger urban areas in Northern Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

As the school and town populations shrank in size, the school was moved into the 6-man football districts in which it did very well.

As years passed, populations moved and St. Stanislaus, Holy Name, Holy Trinity, St. Rose, and St. Casimir, all merged in 1998, forming St. Richard.

As a result many Chinese immigrants moved to cities such as New York and Boston where today there are large enough populations to build communities known as " Chinatowns ".

In the second half of the 18th century, the Lower Creeks, a tribe of Muscogee people, began to migrate into Florida to evade the dominance of the Upper Creeks, effectively displacing the Calusa and Mayaimi tribes with the aid of the Spanish who moved many of them to Cuba, where the tribes ' populations were soon decimated by disease.

Previously wealthy families, now landless, were forced to become tenant farmers, whilst the cities ' populations grew as rural poor moved into them.

Though northeastern Russia had few Jews, countries just to its west had rapidly growing Jewish populations, as waves of anti-Jewish pogroms and expulsions from the countries of Western Europe marked the last centuries of the Middle Ages, a sizable portion of the Jewish populations there moved to the more tolerant countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Middle East.

The field has also moved both toward the treatment of interethnic relations, and toward the study of communication strategies used by co-cultural populations, i. e., communication strategies used to deal with majority or mainstream populations.

New York and other large cities of the East Coast became home to large Jewish, Irish, and Italian populations, while many Germans and Central Europeans moved to the Midwest, obtaining jobs in industry and mining.

Hopewell populations originated in western New York and moved south into Ohio where they built upon the local Adena mortuary tradition.

In the Great Migration of the 1920s, major populations of African-Americans moved to Northern cities like Detroit, Chicago, and New York City to escape racial segregation, Jim Crow Laws, violence, and racial bigotry in the Southern States.

In addition, when blacks moved into white neighborhoods, whites would immediately relocate out of fear of a potential rise in property crime, rape, drugs and violence that was attributed to neighborhoods with large black populations.

At this point the labor had been commoditized, and thus the competition between workers ( and worker populations ) moved closer to pure than it had been, depressing wages and job security.

Most, however, stay a bit longer ; by the end of August, the bulk of the northern populations has moved south, though some may linger almost until fall.

The populations that moved into cities faced hardships which tested their patience, persistence, and adaptability.

However, as the Ottomans moved further west and the assimilation of the Greek and Balkan populations progressed, the Turkic and Persian-Arabic-Greek influenced culture of its leaders itself absorbed some of the culture of the conquered peoples.

Modern academics propose, based on much onomastic and archaeological evidence, that Anatolian populations moved south into Canaan as part of the waves of Sea Peoples who were migrating along the Mediterranean coastline at the time of the collapse of the Hittite Empire.