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Thread #59063   Message #939084
Posted By: George Papavgeris
24-Apr-03 - 05:57 AM
Thread Name: St George's Day
Subject: RE: St George's Day
303, eh? So St George was not Turkish, couldn't have been as the Turks (in fact their ancestors, the Seltzuks) migrated south from Mongolia a couple of centuries after that. For the preceding 8 centuries the East Mediterranean coast (Asia Minor, today's Lebanon etc) had been colonised first by the Greeks and then by the Romans. But it would be too "pat" to call St George Greek or Roman, as there were also indigenous peoples there that invariably mixed with the colonising Greeks and Romans. He could be anything therefore. And it doesn't matter.