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date: 21 March 2025

Greeks in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. 

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Author(s):
Dahlia Abdel FattahDahlia Abdel Fattah

Spurred by seventeenth-century maritime trade, a number of Greek merchants and clerics moved to live in the Middle East. The region's geographical proximity to the Greek islands and the establishment of the Greek Orthodox patriarchates in Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem helped in the growth of their community, a process later accelerated by the modernization plans of ... ...

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