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Ancient Greeks labeled the Phoenicians, and Levantines in general, as Phoinike (Φοινίκη), a word derived from the Greek work Phoinos, meaning "ruddy", possibly in reference to the skin colour of Ancient Levantines. [31] [32] [33] In the Hebrew Bible, figures such as Esau and King David are described as "ruddy".
The definition of what constitutes the population of Israel varies depending on which territories are counted and which population groups are counted in each territory. The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) definition of the Area of the State of Israel: [5] includes East Jerusalem since 1967, which Israel unilaterally annexed
Renan had acknowledged the importance of the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Israel etc. but called the Semitic races inferior to the Aryan for their monotheism, which he held to arise from their supposed lustful, violent, unscrupulous and selfish racial instincts. Steinthal summed up these predispositions as "Semitism", and so ...
In Classical Greek, the word took on a meaning comparable to the concept now expressed by "ethnic group", mostly translated as "nation, tribe, a unique people group"; only in Hellenistic Greek did the term tend to become further narrowed to refer to "foreign" or "barbarous" nations in particular (whence the later meaning "heathen, pagan"). [10]
For the Greeks, even today, ethnicity has greater significance than for many other peoples. [1] [2] [3] After all, during the three century long Islamic-Ottoman occupation, the Greeks managed to preserve their culture, Greek Orthodox faith, language and identity unharmed; and from 1821 onwards, they were able to re-establish their own sovereign state with an intact ethnicity.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ethnic group Israelis ישראלים إسرائيليون Flag of Israel Map of the Israeli diaspora Regions with significant populations Israel c. 9.8 million (including occupied territories) United States 106,839 – 500,000 Russia 100,000 (80,000 in Moscow) [6] India 40–70,000 [7 ...
The Israel geneticist and historian of science Raphael Falk argued that explicit racial and eugenic notions linking Jewish nationality and biology were particularly in evidence among Zionist writers, but also among non-Zionists, and have continued, "though in a thinly disguised mode", after the defeat of Nazism to resurface in every generation ...
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...