When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

And thousands who are Middle Easterner descendants: Arabs, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Europeans, Armenians, Italians, Greeks and Turks came to Guatemala after World War I.

Besides natives of Italy, Celts, Illyrians, Greeks, Egyptians, Jews, and Syrians all settled in the city and contributed to its commercial development.

The Ottoman galleys were manned by 13, 000 experienced sailors — generally drawn from the maritime nations of the Ottoman Empire, namely Berbers, Greeks, Syrians, and Egyptians — and 34, 000 soldiers.

There were Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Syrians and Arabs who contributed to the development of Hellenistic philosophy.

As " abominations " he listed Saracens, Greeks, Syrians, Jacobites, Abyssinians, Nestorians, Armenians, Gregorians, Maronites, Turcomans, Bedouins, Assassins, a possible Druze sect and Mamluks.

There had already been a less formally instituted cardinal committee concerned with propaganda fide since the time of Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 1585 ), who were especially charged with promoting the union with Rome of the long-established eastern Christian communities: Slavs, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, and Abyssinians.

< p > The second class consists of the most intelligent and educated among the nations, such as the Syrians, Persians, and Greeks.

All three churches had common origins in terms of membership, where the majority of adherents was a mix of Greeks and Hellenized Jews and Syrians from Antioch and the rest of Syria who adopted the new faith.

As a precursor to this, Alexander the Great had tried to " mingle " his Macedonians and other Greeks with the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

He also faced numerous internal conflicts with Egyptians, Wahabbis, Serbians, Albanians, Greeks and Syrians, and had administrative problems from rebellious pashas, who would fain have founded new kingdoms on the ruins of the House of Osman.

Their monasteries, which numbered hundreds of monks and sometimes went into the thousand, were distributed in national groups, Latins, Greeks, Syrians, and Egyptians ; and each group, into as many choirs as the membership permitted, and the service required.

In Imperial times, non-citizen freeborn provincials ( peregrini ), chiefly from nations with a maritime background such as Greeks, Phoenicians, Syrians and Egyptians, formed the bulk of the fleets ' crews.

The name Syria derives from the ancient Greek name for Syrians,, which the Greeks applied without distinction to various Assyrian people.

According to some scholars, Matthew was intolerant towards both Greeks and Latins, as well as unsympathetic towards Syrians, judging by allusions made by Abul-Faraj at a later date.

Albanians, Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Bosnians, Arameans, Circassians, Georgians, Greeks, Jews, Hemshin, Laz, Gagauz, Yezidi, Abkhazians and a number of other ethnic groups also live in Anatolia in smaller numbers.

Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

Early in his reign, the Greeks and Jews of Alexandria sent him two embassies at once after riots broke out between the two communities.

When they came to possess the whole of southern Mesopotamia, the name " Chaldean " became synonymous with " Babylonian ", particularly to the Greeks and Jews.

Riots again erupted in Alexandria in AD 40 between Jews and Greeks.

When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ( as opposed to Greeks or Jews ) embraced the Christian faith.

Over 300, 000 Russians, 200, 000 Georgians, 200, 000 Armenians, 85, 000 Greeks, 50, 000 Azerbaijanis, 50, 000 Ukrainians and 20, 000 Jews have migrated from Georgia since independence.

In the 19th century, Gallipoli () was a district ( kaymakamlik ) in the Vilayet of Adrianople, with about thirty thousand inhabitants: comprising Greeks, Turks, Armenians and Jews.

By 1890, Palestine was populated mainly by Muslim ( settled and nomad Bedouins ) and Christian Arabs, as well as Jews, Greeks, Druze and other minorities.

To Anatoli all men are, in truth, formed in the image of God, though the Jews stand under a particular obligation to further the true cognition of God simply by reason of their election —" the Greeks had chosen wisdom as their pursuit ; the Romans, power ; and the Jews, religiousness " ( l. c.

One of his most famous numbers is " They Ain't Makin ' Jews Like Jesus Anymore ," a song in which Kinky verbally and physically beats up a drunken white racist who berates blacks, Jews, Greeks, and Sigma Nus in a bar.

During medieval and modern times, Macedonia has been known as a Balkan region inhabited by ethnic Greeks, Albanians, Vlachs, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, and Turks.

The major languages spoken by both Jews and Greeks in the Holy Land at the time of Jesus were Aramaic and Koine Greek, and to a limited extent a colloquial dialect of Mishnaic Hebrew.

The modern Portuguese nation is a very old amalgam of formerly distinct historical populations that passed through and settled in the territory of modern Portugal: native Iberian peoples, Celts, ancient Mediterraneans ( Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Jews ), invading Germanic peoples like the Suebi and the Visigoths, and Muslim Arabs and Berbers.

Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.

Greeks, Illyrians, Berbers, Germans, Britons, Thracians, Gauls, Jews, Arabs, and many more were slaves used not only for labour, but also for amusement ( e. g. gladiators and sex slaves ).

The Seleucid empire's geographic span, from the Aegean Sea to what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, created a melting pot of various peoples, such as Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Medes, Assyrians, and Jews.

Josephus argued that while the Greeks recognized three types of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and anarchy, the Jews were unique in that they had a system of government that did not fit into those categories.

* December 5 – The Turkish Ministry of War releases Greeks, Armenians and Jews from military service.

1500, the numbers had grown to 7, 986 Greeks, 8, 575 Muslims, and 3, 770 Jews.

The affected populations were Slovenes and Croats in the Julian March, Lastovo and Zadar ; between 1941 and 1943 the Gorski Kotar and coastal Dalmatia ; German-speakers in South Tyrol, parts of Friuli and the Julian March, Francoprovençal-speaking peoples in the Aosta Valley, as well as Greeks, Turks and Jews on the Dodecanese islands.

Included are Sicilians and Greeks, Corsicans and French, Spanish and Germans, Egyptians and Jews, Circassians, Iranians, and Turks ; also in this mix are Tunisians whose ancestry traces southward across the deserts to Black Africa.

Subsequently, the Galatians continued to be subsumed into the Greek world until their culture was barely indistinguishable from the Greeks before disappearing under the Turkish and Islamic Jihad and Genocide of Byzantine Anatolia.

The majority of Greeks continued to live under Ottoman rule, and Greeks dreamed of liberating them all and reconstituting a state embracing all the Greek lands, with Constantinople as its capital.

Greeks in Crete continued to stage regular revolts, and in 1897, the Greek government under Theodoros Deligiannis, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans.

Nationalist sentiment among Greeks in the Ottoman Empire continued to grow, and by the 1890s there were constant disturbances in Macedonia.

Classical philology is historically primary, originating in Pergamum and Alexandria around the 4th century B. C., continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and eventually taken up by European scholars of the Renaissance, where it was soon joined by philologies of other languages both European ( Germanic, Celtic, Slavistics, etc.

Production of Tyrian Purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BCE by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 CE, with the fall of Constantinople.

Uruk, now known as Orchoë to the Greeks, continued to thrive under the Seleucid Empire.

) Unlike the cults of most of the other Egyptian deities, the worship of the Apis bull was continued by the Greeks and after them by the Romans, and lasted until almost 400 A. D.

Although enslavement of Greeks for non-payment of debt continued in most Greek states, it was banned at Athens under Solon in the early 6th century BC.

In the early 20th century it was composed of two parts — the old walled town at the bridge over the Euripus, where a number of Turkish families continued to live until the late 19th century, and a sizeable Jewish community lived until World War II, and the more modern suburb that lies outside it, chiefly occupied by Greeks.

After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II resettled ethnic Greeks along the Horn in the Phanar ( today's Fener ), while Balat continued to be inhabited by Jews, as during the Byzantine age.

Meanwhile, at Thermopylae, the Persians had continued to wait for the Greeks to disperse, also choosing not to attack during the storm.

Two more days passed, during which time the supply lines of the Greeks continued to be menaced.

The Greeks, meanwhile, continued to stun everybody.

There was no direct fighting between the Greeks and the Persians after 450, but Persia continued to meddle in Greek affairs over the next twenty years, and was to become instrumental in securing a Spartan victory in the Peloponnesian War.

Internally, the Turkish policy of diminishing the economic presence of the Greeks in Turkey was continued after the war.

Inconclusive fighting between Greeks and Ottomans continued until 1825 when the Sultan sent a powerful fleet and army from Egypt to ravage the Aegean Islands and the Peloponnese.

The Greek offensive continued successfully, and on March 27 and 28 the Greeks occupied two important strategical points, Afium-Karahissar and Eskişehir.

Spartan women continued to wear the peplos much later in history than other Greek cultures, causing other Greeks to call them phainomērídes ( φαινομηρίδες ) the " thigh-showers.

He continued to be the naval chief of the Greeks until the former Royal Navy officer Thomas Cochrane entered their service in 1827.

The Indo-Greek states, shielded by the Hindu Kush range, were saved from the invasions, but the civil wars which had weakened the Greeks continued.

Khan Öz Beg urged the Mongol elite to convert to Islam, but at the same time, he preserved the lives of Christians and pagans such as Russians, Circassians, Alans, Bulgars, Finno-Ugric people, Turks and Crimean Greeks as long as they continued to pay the jizyah in subjection to Islamic rule.

Even if this was the end of the original Greco-Bactrian kingdom, the Greeks continued to rule in northwestern India to the end of the 1st century BCE, under the Indo-Greek Kingdom.