rightStar International was launched in November 2005 and airs the " best of " Star Channel programming to Greeks in the Asia Pacific region, South Africa, Australia / New Zealand & North America.

On any given Sunday there is a Taiwanese service, a Mandarin service, and a multi-cultural service in which Greeks, Latinos, Asian-Indians, Pacific Rim Asians, Russians and “ traditional Americans ” worship together in English.

Oceanus (; ( Ōkeanós ); ) was a pseudo-geographical feature in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the World Ocean, an enormous river encircling the world.

Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks.

Although Erythraean Sea () literally means " Red Sea ", to the Greeks it included the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

To the early ancient Greeks, Ethiopia referred to an empire that encompassed a vast territory, extending to Arabia, Syria, Armenia and the territory between the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

Qandala, like many other Somali ports on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, may have been frequented by Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Yemenis, Greeks and Roman sailors.

Anatolia has been inhabited by many peoples throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mitanni, Scythians, Cimmerians, Urartians, Carians, Commagene, Cilicians, Arameans, Kaskians, Mushki, Palaic, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Georgians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks, and Ottomans.

Herodotus's works covered what was then the entire known world of the Greeks, or at least the part regarded as worthy of study, i. e., the peoples surrounding the Mediterranean.

On the other hand, the wealthier Greeks of Constantinople, and also the peoples of the Balkan and Italian provinces, strongly opposed iconoclasm.

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.

The ancient Greeks were polytheists ; pluralism in that historical era meant accepting the existence of and validity of other peoples religions.

Syria was dominated by many peoples in its history, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Canaanites, Arameans, Hattians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, and French.

Star catalogues were compiled by many different ancient peoples, including the Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, Persians and Arabs.

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.

In addition to the Gauls, there were other peoples living in Gaul, such as the Greeks and Phoenicians who had established outposts such as Massilia ( present-day Marseille ) along the Mediterranean coast.

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.

Segesta, called Egesta () by the Greeks, was one of the major cities of the Elymian people, one of the three indigenous peoples of Sicily.

Other Iron Age attestations of the swastika can be associated with Indo-European cultures such as the Indo-Iranians, Celts, Greeks and Germanic peoples and Slavs.

Since the 2nd millennium BC, the region now inhabited by the native Pashtun people have been influenced by Ancient Iranian peoples, the Medes, Achaemenids, Greeks, Mauryas, Kushans, Hephthalites, Sassanids, Arab Muslims, Turks, and others.

Bloodletting is one of the oldest medical practices, having been practiced among ancient peoples including the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Mayans, and the Aztecs.

Since many East European people accepted Christianity from the Greeks, many of these peoples have Makara in the root of some names: Makarios ( Greeks ).

Realizing the importance of trade, Zamoyski issued special location charters for representatives of peoples traditionally engaged in trade, e. g. to Greeks, Armenians and Sephardic Jews and secured exemptions on taxes, customs duties and tolls, which contributed to its fast development.

This area was populated by Syriac Christians and had a significant presence of Pontic Greeks, Assyrians, Baghdadi Jews and Armenians ; these peoples lived in the region from 500 BC to the late 19th century.

The Horde exacted tax payments from its subject peoples – Rus ' people, Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, Alans, Crimean Greeks, Crimean Goths, and others ( Bulgarians, Vlachs ).

The peoples known as the Curetes and the Leleges originally inhabited the country, but at an early period Greeks from Elis, led by the mythical eponym Aetolus, set up colonies.

Most of the tales are from Roman history, but each section has an appendix consisting of extracts from the annals of other peoples, principally the Greeks.

The exposition exhibits strongly the two currents of feeling which are intermingled by almost every Roman writer of the Empire — the feeling that the Romans of the writer's own day are degenerate creatures when confronted with their own republican predecessors, and the feeling that, however degenerate, the latter-day Romans still tower above the other peoples of the world, and in particular are morally superior to the Greeks.

The Greeks were planted upon the earlier dwellings of indigenous, Iron-Age peoples whom they supplanted ; a memory of them was preserved as cave-dwellers named Cimmerians, among whom there was already an oracular tradition.

The Greeks believed amethyst gems could prevent intoxication, while medieval European soldiers wore amethyst amulets as protection in battle in the belief that amethysts heal people and keep them cool-headed.

Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas ' rescue after he falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

This ambivalence is expressed also in the god's association with the Thracians, who were regarded by the Greeks as a barbarous and warlike people.

However, many people escaped again from the city, and there were several outbreaks of plague, so that in 1459 Mehmet allowed the deported Greeks to come back to the city.

The Founding Declaration of the Independent Greeks strongly emphasises in the preservation of the Greek state and it's sovereignty, the Greek people and the Greek Orthodox Church.

However, by all accounts Hector was the best warrior the Trojans and all their allies could field, and his fighting prowess was admired by Greeks and his own people alike.

*( c. 97 ) Flavius Josephus Against Apion, or Against Apion, or Contra Apionem, or Against the Greeks, on the antiquity of the Jewish people ( usually abbreviated CA )

However, the data of the General Secretariat For Greeks Abroad give an even lower number ( 50 people ).

At this period the area divided from the Jireček Line was populated from people of Thraco-Roman or Illyro-Roman origins, as well from Hellenized citizens of the Byzantine Empire and Byzantine Greeks.

According to the " travels of Hercules " theme, also documented by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, both Greeks and native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed through the area.

While thong sandals were commonly worn, many people in ancient times, such as the Egyptians, Hindu and Greeks, saw little need for footwear, and most of the time, preferred being barefoot.

Although primitive state-forms existed before the rise of the Ancient Greek empire, the Greeks were the first people known to have explicitly formulated a political philosophy of the state, and to have rationally analyzed political institutions.

In antiquity, the Ancient Greeks and Romans believed in the power of exhaustion in curing people of lycanthropy.

Many people in ancient times, such as the Egyptians, Hindu and Greeks, saw little need for footwear, and most of the time were barefoot.

Further east, the Greeks of Alexandria Eschate became known to the Chinese people as the Dayuan.

The structure was discovered at Torre Satriano, near the southern city of Potenza, in Basilicata, a region where local people mingled with Greeks who settled along the southern coast known as Magna Graecia and in Sicily from the 8th century BC onwards.

This method, also employed by the Romans, the Greeks and even indigenous people in the Philippines around 1600-1800, is still used today.

He urges Greeks to follow the example of Basil II: "(...) Instead of blinding so many people, Basil should have better killed them instead.

The ancient Greeks constructed temples they called Asclepieions, where sick people were sent to be cured.

The ancient Greeks used the fork as a serving utensil, and it is also mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of I Samuel 2: 13 (" The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest ’ s servant came, while the fresh flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand ...").

On the one hand, the ancient Greeks had no doubt that they were ' one people '; they had the same religion, same basic culture, and same language.

It is thought the majority of Valparaíso's people have non-Spanish European background, such as: British and Irish, Australians and New Zealanders, North Americans ( U. S. or Canadian ), Croats and Bosnians, Dutch and Belgians, French, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese and Scandinavians.

He joined the Parian colony on Thasos and battled the indigenous Thracians, expressing himself in his poems as a cynical, hard-bitten soldier fighting for a country he doesn't love (" Thasos, thrice miserable city ") on behalf of a people he scorns (" The woes of all the Greeks have come together in Thasos "), yet he values his closest comrades and their stalwart, unglamorous commander.