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  2. Islam in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Islam in Greece is represented by two distinct communities; Muslims that have lived in Greece since the times of the Ottoman Empire (primarily in East Macedonia and Thrace) and Muslim immigrants that began arriving in the last quarter of the 20th century, mainly in Athens and Thessaloniki. Today, Muslims in Greece are mainly immigrants from ...

  3. Muslim minority of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim minority of Greece is the only explicitly recognized minority in Greece. It numbered 97,605 (0.91% of the population) according to the 1991 census, [1] and unofficial estimates ranged up to 140,000 people or 1.24% of the total population, according to the United States Department of State. [2]

  4. Greek Muslims - Wikipedia

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    The Vallahades retained much of their Greek culture and language. This is in contrast with most Greek converts to Islam from Greek Macedonia, other parts of Macedonia, and elsewhere in the southern Balkans, who generally adopted the Turkish language and identity and thoroughly assimilated into the Ottoman ruling elite. According to Todor ...

  5. Vallahades - Wikipedia

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    The name Vallahades comes from the Ottoman Turkish Islamic expression vallâhi 'by God'. [3] They were also known as Φούτσιδες, Foútsides; from φούτσι μ', foútsi m, which is a corruption of the Greek αδελφούτσι μου, adelfoútsi mou 'my brother'. [3]

  6. City of the Dead (Cairo) - Wikipedia

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    While the "City of the Dead" is a designation frequently used in English, the Arabic name is "al-Qarafa" (Arabic: القرافة, romanized: al-Qarafa).The name is a toponym said to derive from the Banu Qarafa ibn Ghusn ibn Wali clan, a Yemeni clan descended from the Banu Ma'afir tribe, which once had a plot of land in the city of Fustat (the predecessor of Cairo).

  7. Name of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks.The ancient and modern name of the country is Hellas or Hellada (Greek: Ελλάς, Ελλάδα; in polytonic: Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάδα), and its official name is the Hellenic Republic, Helliniki Dimokratia (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ...

  8. Religion in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Protestant population, including Greek Evangelical Church and Free Evangelical Churches, stood at about 23,000 people in 2020 (0.23% of the country). [11] The Free Apostolic Church of the Pentecost was founded by Leonidas Feggos in 1965.

  9. Names of the Greeks - Wikipedia

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    The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες) have been identified by many ethnonyms.The most common native ethnonym is Hellene (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην), pl. Hellenes (Ἕλληνες); the name Greeks (Latin: Graeci) was used by the ancient Romans and gradually entered the European languages through its use in Latin.