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4 years

Did you know there are over 700 abandoned Byzantine cities in Syria. One of the churches in them is considered by some architects to be the forerunner of Notre Dame

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In 1869, Athens was still the size of a village. Here is a colorized picture of the acropolis from Monastiraki square #Athens

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Today in 1453 Constantine gave his life for the city and empire

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This is not Antakya Turkey, This is Antioch Syria. The Hellenistic (original) capital of Syria from which I myself descend. 1050 square meters make it the largest in the world.

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A 9000 square feet mosaic from the fourth century uncovered in our eternal Graeco-Levantine capital of Antioch!

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This is the ancient Saint Savvas (Mar Saba. Aramaic). A monastery that has been continuously functioning since its foundation by the Greco-Syrian monk Savvas in 478. The monastery has been home to many martyr saints who took refuge in the monastery often after converting...

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The graves of Alexander’s generals and his horse Bukephalos in modern day Pakistan

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A new huge mosaic discovered in Homs (Emesa) Syria this week #greek #byzantine #roman

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Famous Graeco-Levantines (Rûm-Greeks) Michel Dimitri Shalhoub a.k.a Omar sharif, an Egyptian actor. Known for movies such as Lawrence and doctor Zhivago comes from Syrian Melchite (Greek-Catholic/Uniate) family in Syria

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3 years

Since everyone on social media is now an expert on international law and geopolitics due to Ukr-Rus. I would like to take the opportunity to remind everyone that Cyprus is still illegally occupied since 1974 #freecyprus

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Beautiful

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My son (11) just came to show me what he did in wood shop in school. I’m a proud dad ❤️. And no I never knew what he was doing

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Palestine ❤️

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The last piece of the Roman Empire, Athos

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Armenian beauty

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Only genuine Greeks and Levantines know what this is 😂😂

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Happy Independence Day! Freedom or death

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This is probably the “greekest site” on the planet after the acropolis of Athens. It is Apamea in Syria. Marvel!! Pictures won’t do it justice

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For non Greeks: Oxi means no and that’s the answer Mussolini received after demanding Greece’s surrender. For Greeks: this is the only holiday we do not have in common although the past years Antioch has started to celebrate it in the patriarchate’s main church. Χρόνια πολλά!

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Today we commemorate Vasos Mavrovouniotis attempt at liberating Syria from ottoman occupation in 1826, on this day exactly 197 years ago. The brave men managed to land in Beirut and occupy a part of the city but ultimately their attempt proved unsuccessful.

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The 18.500.000 year old fossilized octopus of Lesbos

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On this day in 2015, Khaled Al-Asaad was beheaded for holding his ground in Palmyra, protecting the historical site against ISIS. Khaled spent over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra R.I.P hero

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Dark purple where Greek was primarily spoken, pink secondary to the language labeled. Third century AD

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Once upon a time when the world was ascending, unlike like today, descending.

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The ruins of another Byzantine church was discovered outside of Hama, (Epiphania) Syria. It’s believed to have been damaged by an earthquake. Inscriptions date it to July 570AD

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Adana was part of the Graeco-Syrian realm from Seleucid time to the Arab occupation. This Mosaic depicting Poseidon was unearthed and dates back to the 3rd or 4th century AD

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Pictures of the Greek mosaic found in Homs (Rastan) Syria. The mosaic is 120 square meters

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Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Don’t be offended

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Waiting for the president of Armenia to be featured in Vogue

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A picture of the Greek Orthodox neighborhood of Damascus in 1860 after the massacre of some 10000 Greek Orthodox Christians over night. The attack was executed by 24000 Druze and Bedouins while 5000 ottoman soldier stood passively and watched. More info below

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Did you know that Constantinople was officially still Constantinople until 1930! In word of mouth it was called Konstantinye, from Arabic, much like turkey want to call themselves Turkiye today (also Arabic). After the forming of the Turkish Republic in 1923 Constantinople 1/2

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Happy new year to all my fellow byzantines

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3 years

Isis or not, Islamist attacks or not. Our towns will celebrate the birth of Christ no matter what! Merry Christmas to both foes and friends but especially to our romaiic community

This is Christian Syria

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Merry Christmas from #Mhardeh

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Although I live and breathe Hellenism. It’s needless to say I stand with Armenia, the Armenian people, my brethren, countrymen and family. I love you, whether we are in the Levant or in Armenia and Greece

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Before modern nationalism and Turko-Arab invasion ruined everything

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Languages of the Roman empires 560AD

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Καλά Χριστούγεννα αδέρφια

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In my hometown a man with Down’s syndrome married and had a son. Now his son has grown up to be a Doctor of medicine. My people manage to keep me proud

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Did not know my mother's pantofla skills went back kto ancient times

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When levantines say: I’ll just make a small platter for your ouzo (arrak)

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“Stop LARPING there are no Greeks outside of Greece” it’s a modern happening and just LARP. REALITY: Yemen 1936

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Did you know that the name of the Mediterranean Sea in the Arab and Ottoman Empire was called “The Sea of Rûm”?

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Is it not amazing how fast we forgot one of the most important cities of history. Rome, Constantinople and Alexandria are in mainstream memory. Antioch and Seleucia almost forgotten

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Say hello to Heliodorus. He lived 18 centuries ago. The Greek inscription on this painted tile from his house identifies him by name, occupation (accountant for Roman army) & his bearded face (Dura-Europos, Syria).

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Rûm refugees escaping Turkey

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I am leaving Athens now, a beautiful city with history that makes my blood flow of happiness to reconnect. I will summarize this pat week and the outcomes once I land tonight.

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As promised. Pictures from oxi day celebrations in Damascus #OxiDay

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Qasr Ibn Wardan - the only Constantinopolitan style church in Syria. Built by non less than emperor Justinian I in ca 550AD along with barracks and a palace as a defense line against the Sassanians. Theories suggest the palace stood model for Umayyad desert castles.

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The ottoman genocide was fast and brutal, the invisible genocide is more efficient.

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As long as one of us breathes, the empire is alive. All hail Emperatos Constantinos!

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Flag of Vergina! Blue as it should with 12 rays for the Olympic Gods. Not red and not the 12 tribes of Vardar

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A statue of Alexander the Great was found in Alexandria. Archaeologists believe it dates back to 200 BC

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Entering the discussion: Albanians! I have seen similar claims from “Macedonians”, now everyone except Greeks are claiming the Greeks of the Levant

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The Greek decapolis (ten cities) Gerasa, Dium, Scythopolis, Hippoas, Gadara, Pella, Philadelphia, Canatha, Raphana and Damascus. Apart from Damascus all the cities were founded and inhabited by the Greeks. The cities were Greek from their founding, modeling themselves...

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We are Romioi!!!

The Greco-Syrian Nation

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This woman looks neither Kurdish nor Syrian. She looks North African.

Moment 'female bomber' is arrested by Turkish police

Today, police footage shared with Turkish media shows officers arresting Albashir, who is from Syria, at a house where she was allegedly hiding.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox cathedral in Beirut with its stunning iconostasis (the picture of the iconostasis was stolen shamelessly from one of @nntaleb ’s tweets)

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3 years

In honor of oxi day and me being hammered at work, not able to write too much information. Please enjoy colored pictures from the Greco-Italian war.

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What is left of the Hellenistic city of Apamea in Syria. It also holds a Roman Theatre, one of the largest surviving theatres of the Roman Empire with an estimated seating capacity in excess of 20,000.

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@alifarhat79 Gun Powder, fireworks, a bunch of martial arts

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I will post a series on the cities founded by the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. These cities were nonexistent when before the Hellenistic period. Staring with the obvious ones in Tetrapolis (north western Syria). The first city is the Seleucid capital of Antioch

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First of the foods: Known as Dolma in Turkish, Yemista in Greek and Mehshi in Arabic. Stuffing minced meat into different kinds of vegetables is a very popular way to cook around the Mediterranean. Turks like to claim this as a Turkish dish, but as matter of fact it’s not 1/2

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I have big news to share with you in a close future. Now we reconnect our people for the first time in over a century. ΕΓΩ ΡΩΜΗΟΣ ΓΕΝΝΗΘΗΚΑ, ΡΩΜΗΟΣ ΘΕ ΝΑ ΠΕΘΑΝΩ

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Aleppo (Beroia in Greek) was a historically a much more significant city than Damascus and has been continuously inhabited since 6000BC. The citadel which dates back to 3000BC is today given credit in its modern appearance to the Ayyubids who reconstructed the city...

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4th century AD wall painting, found in Lullingstone, England, is an excavation of an ancient Roman village. British Museum

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Today in 1974 the massacre and invasion started #freecyprus

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Where are the Greek of Lebanon?

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This has become tradition in Damascus

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Special liturgy was celebrated in the patriarchal church of the Theotokos (cathedral of Saint Mary), Damascus in honor of Greece’s Independence Day.

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This pretty Greco-Levantine actress will be featured in my big fat Greek wedding 3. Her name is Stephanie Nur, if we translate her name from Greek and Arabic it will be “crown of light”. Although born in Egypt, her father is Austrian and her mother a Greco-Levantine painter

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I doubt you can find As many Hellenistic historical sites like you can in Syria, outside of the Hellenic Republic. Mahardah a town with 17000 has Corinthians columns and has been inhabited since it was founded by the Seleucids. It’s exclusively Greek Orthodox to this day!

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My genetic closeness: Cyprus, Dodecanese, Pontos, Crete, Aegean islands and South Italy. Closer than my own country. Yet I am called a LARPER. I am Greco-Syrian. No doubt

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Not Arab! It was Levantine Greek "My ancestry is Sicilian, Greek, Arab and French. My mother's mother was French and Sicilian, and her Dad was Italian (from Naples). She was first generation. The Greek-Arab side is from my Dad. He was born in a Sicilian village called Partinico

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Christ is born! Glorify him! Light of light, alpha and omega, the way and truth

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1 year

Greece ignores us, Russia gives us attention, but the price is further arabization. Where should we turn? Amazed that people did not even know there were Greek Orthodox people in Palestine

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Considering recent events that occurred to our community in Palestine I have come to realize that the lack of interest from Greece, not only for this community, but any diaspora in general, Anatolia etc, renders any attempt to reach out to the Hellenic Republic obsolete.

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My grandfather was a Hellene, my father was a Roman (Rhomaios), me. I am an idiot thinking I am what the English and French told me to be

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The celebration of the great martyr saint Barbara. A Greco-Levantine Saint, sometimes given origins in Nikomedia, Other times in Heliopolis, Lebanon. Regardless of origin, her feast day is one of the biggest in the Levant.

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We are the Levant and without us the Levant is not

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Love to see the Hellenic glad fly outside our cathedral in Damascus

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Another map with languages. This one is more accurate considering the Levant, I am not sure about the accuracy in Europe (600AD)

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Some Arabic words of Greek origin: برتقال (Bortokal) from πορτοκάλια (Portokalia) means orange. فراولة (Farawla) from φράουλα (fráoula) means strawberries, فانوس (Fanoos) from Greek φανός (fanós) means lantern. More to come

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Today in history we commemorate the fall of Constantinople and the heroic emperor who fell with his the last Roman Empire. Constantine XI Palaiologos. May his memory be eternal!

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Καλά Χριστούγεννα - merry Christmas!

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Once upon a time

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Not from our region, but too good not to tweet. Kapilikaya rock in Turkey, close to Pontos, you will find a gate into a mountain. Behind the door is an ancient Hellenistic tomb that dates back to the 2nd century BC with the inscription IKEZIOS on the gate.

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This is my first attempt on an icon. I have to admit it is one of the best decisions I have made in my life and it is so much harder than I thought it would be.

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Eternal memory to Christos Moulas and Perikles Stefanides whom gave their lives fighting the fires

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The Damascus massacre: the hero Abd Al-Kader saved 10000 Greco-Syrian lives during. He won among among other awards the Greek “Order of the Redeemer”.

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This should be of interest to all my followers. For my community I guess the purple is most interesting along with the light green. Add a lot of peoples exchange, migrations and repopulation programs to this

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Languages spoken 600AD.

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What makes an ethnicity? Common genetics, common religion, common history, common culture and common language. The only thing we lack in the Levant is the Greek language. That’s easily fixed. One generation and we are back on track

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A reconstruction of ancient Ephesus

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General map of languages spoken in the eastern Mediterranean 500AD

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The construction of our new village church is progressing despite the war and sanctions 🙏

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The successor of saint Peter at Saint Peter’s throne in Antioch; where saint Peter was first bishop before Rome. This is our patriarch and he’s not Arab. He’s Graeco-Levantine. Romaos: