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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 ...
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 Shahada (Arabic: الشَّهَادَةُ aš-šahādatu; Arabic pronunciation: [aʃʃahaːdatʊ], 'the testimony'), [note 1] also transliterated as Shahadah, is an Islamic oath and creed, and one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan.
At all periods, most Cretan Muslims were Greek-speaking, [15] using the Cretan Greek dialect, but the language of administration and the prestige language for the Muslim urban upper classes was Ottoman Turkish. In the folk tradition, however, Cretan Greek was used to express Muslims' "Islamic—often Bektashi—sensibility". [15]
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 Aljamiado texts among Greek-speaking Muslims living alongside Turkish speaking citizens and interacting with them, tended to have its commonly used orthographic patterns and conventions as well as the letters used, converge towards Ottoman Turkish, whereas the texts written by Arabic speaking Christians of the Levant tended to ...
Star and crescent symbolize Islam and the dark green field symbolizes the Muslim majority of Pakistan. [37] Saudi Arabia Shahada (Muslim creed) on green, a color represents Islam [38] Senegal The green stripe and star represent Islam. [39] [40] Somaliland Shahada (green may also represent Islam) Sudan Green represents Islam. [41]
Greek Sunni Muslims (1 C) T. Turks in Greece (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Greek Muslims" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.