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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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Muslim women are less likely to take part in sport than Western non-Muslims. [157] This is particularly so for women in Arab societies . The traditions of Islamic modesty in dress and requirements for women's sport to take place in a single-sex environment make sports participation more difficult for devout female adherents.
Muslim Greeks may refer to: Greek Muslims, Muslims of Greek ethnic origin; Muslim minority of Greece; See also. Islam in Greece This page was last edited on 14 ...
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.
The Dodecanese was gradually settled by Turks from the Anatolian mainland from the 1480s onwards, added to by the Greek Muslims whose ancestors on the islands converted to Islam in the Ottoman period and were consequently referred to as 'Turks' as a synonym for Ottoman Muslim rather than because of their actual ethnic origin.
A golfer is someone who plays golf.Below is a list of female golfers, professional and amateurs, sorted alphabetically. Category:Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways: by nationality, by tour and by type of major championship won (men's, women's or senior).
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 ...