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The people of Greece
The Greeks inhabited Greece of the XVIIth century aC until the present day, they resided in the states, acquaintances as "polis". Although the people in Greek different cities were speaking the same language and had belief similar religious, between them there was many war. The Greeks are usually found in the Greek peninsula of Europe of the Southeast (a region where the Greek language continuously has been spoken more than 3500 years), the Greek islands and Cyprus
Most of the people in Greece reside in cities along the coast, with more than 50 % who lives about Athens. Most of the people in Greece are of Greek heredity with the small populations of Turks, Bulgarians and other Europeans.
Greek societies and communes historically have been located in most of corners of Mediterranean but the Greeks are always centred about the coasts egeas, where the Greek language has been spoken from epócas ancient. Until the early Greeks of XXth century uniformly were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of the Asia Minor, Pontus and Constantinople, regions that met to a very big grade with the borders of Byzantine Empire of the late XIth century and the areas of Greek colonization in the ancient world.
After the Greek-Turkish War (1919-1922) in 1923, an inhabitants' change of big scale between Greece and Turkey transferred and limited ethnic Greeks almost completely on the borders of the Greek modern state, that is to say in areas where the groups of Indo-European that Speak the first Greek established approximately 1500 aC, as well as in Cyprus. Other Greek ethnic populations can be found from Italy of the South to Caucasus and diaspora communities in a number of other countries. Normally, enormous most of Greeks are at least nominally the adherents of Greek Orthodoxy.
2001 of Greece a population of 10,964,020 persons reported the census. The Greeks are recognized by its friendship and kindness after strangers. Nevertheless, Greece is still one of few places where they can invite him in the house of a place and give a banquet. Most of Greeks would consider it to be an insult if its guests should pay for the banquet. The Greeks are also very illusory. Tuesday is considered to be unfortunate, because this is the day during which Constantinople fell down to the Ottoman Turks. They also believe in ‘the malefice’ that can be thrown by the envy or the avarice, then do not admire another person too extremely, or they can blame him for its bad luck.
Most of the Greeks is Orthodox Oriental Christian, who belongs to the Greek orthodox Church. There are also less groups later to other Christian denominations or religions. The Christian not orthodox main denomination is Catholic Romans (including the Byzantine Greek catholic Church and some Ukrainian Catholics of Rite), and more lately Evangelicals, the Seventh day Adventists, Methodists, and the Witnesses of Jehovah. From the days of the Ottoman Empire, there was a Moslem minority inside the Greek society, and for most of its history, Greece has had a Jewish important community.
