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The term "Cretan Muslims" (Turkish: Girit Müslümanları) or "Cretan Turks" (Greek: Τουρκοκρητικοί; Turkish: Girit Türkleri) refers to Greek-speaking Muslims [2] [38] [39] who arrived in Turkey after or slightly before the start of the Greek rule in Crete in 1908, and especially in the context of the 1923 agreement for the ...
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During the Ottoman period, some Muslims settled in Western Thrace, marking the birth of the Muslim minority of Greece.During the Balkan wars and the First World War, Western Thrace, along with the rest of Northern Greece, became part of Greece and the Muslim minority remained in Western Thrace, numbering approximately 86,000 people, [3] and consisting of three ethnic groups: the Turks (here ...
The Greek astronomer Hipparchus 190 BC – c. 120 BC work, were later made into several scientific texts by the Greek Claudius Ptolemy’s called the Almagest, which contained the original Greek and Latin names for stars, It contain a star catalogue of 1022 stars, described by their positions in the constellations, In the 9th century it was ...
Former Muslims or ex-Muslims are people who were Muslims, but subsequently left Islam. Although their numbers have increased, ex-Muslims still face ostracism or retaliation from their families and communities due to beliefs about apostasy in Islam. [1] In 23 countries apostasy is a punishable crime and in 13 of those it carries the death ...
The Muslim faith is the creed of several ethnic groups living in the present territory of Greece, namely the Pomaks, ethnic Turks, certain Romani groups, and Greek Muslims particularly of Crete, Epirus, and western Greek Macedonia who converted mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries.
[13] [14] Thus, although he was completely uninvolved with the Revolution, his death was ordered as an act of revenge. [15] His body remained suspended at the gate for three days, and was then handed to a Jewish mob (there had been animosity between the Greek and Jewish communities of Constantinople at the time), dragged through the streets ...
Sunni Islam, formerly Greek Orthodox Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan [a] ( Ottoman Turkish : گلنوش امت الله رابعه سلطان , " Servant of Allah ", " spring " and " Essence of rose "; 1642 [ 1 ] – 6 November 1715, Edirne ) was the haseki sultan of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and valide sultan to their sons Mustafa II and Ahmed ...