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[Arthur Kemp's Blog] DNA Studies Confirm Accuracy of March of the Titans Thesis of ...: Initial studies on genetic markers corresponding to nuclear gene frequencies in human populations in the Iberian Peninsula (Bertranpetit and CavalliSforza 1991; Calafell and Bertranpetit 1993) have shown that the first principal component (PC) of gene frequencies (the percentage of variation explained by this factor being 27.1%) is that between people originally of Basque and nonBasque descent.

[Leap In The Dark] Leap In The Dark: Family History: Facts And Hopes: Without any accounts of how my mother's father's family got to Romania we can't know for sure whether they were part of the Sephardic people's (Jews who are from Spain and the Middle East, while the European Jews are the Ashkenazi) migration back through eastern Europe with the Ottoman Empire. Both my mother and I have done some cursory research on the matter, with few conclusive results.

[india ministry] Sephardi Jews: In modern times, the term has also been applied to Jews who may not have been born Sephardi (or even Jewish) but attend Sephardic temples and practice Sephardic traditions. Today there are around 12000 Jewish people in Spain and 500 in .

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy - Human Shields in Gaza:: One thing you have to understand is that, while the Sephardim were kicked out of Spain following the defeat of the Moors, they by and large did not suffer the continuous horrors that their counterparts elsewhere in Europe did. Moorish Spain was a good place to be a Jew, and this traditin continued in the Middle East with very rare persecution (usually when someone like Tzevi got delusions of internationalism).

[Open Source] Open Source » Blog Archive » Speaking of Music: Alex Ross's 20th ...: He is famous now for his collaborations (with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the Kronos String Quartet) and for his serial immersion in folk and classical traditions: sephardic, flamenco, gypsy and Arab musics, among others. And as it happens, his first big film score is just out, with Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth.

[Untitled] In Bosnia and Herzogovina «: The slightly garish orange and yellow Holiday Inn was the communication centre of foreign media during the conflicts in Bosnia from 1990 to 1995, when, during the siege of Sarajevo, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 Serb forces surrounded the city and shelled it. I take a look inside: apparently no reminders of the war here, except maybe the pock marks on the concrete porch, maybe the results of shells or mortars, which can be found all over Sarajevo.

[Words] A Developing World-View « Words: I’d like to understand better how the eastern Roman empire treated Jews in the time period coincident with the Muslim conquest of Iberia and the subsequent reconquista. I don’t understand how the west, if they were steeped in centuries of Orthodox practice, could perpetrate forced conversions, persecutions, and expulsions.

[Dhimmi Watch] Aznar: “Muslims should apologize for occupying Spain for 800 years ...: Not only this, but the conquest of Sicily, the attempted conquest of the rest of Europe turned back at Tours, France in 792 by the forces lead by Charles Martel, and the raids of Europe in the 8th and 9th century that resulted in the sometimes decades long occupation of European cities including Naples, and the sacking and looting of others including Rome (a good summary of this is found in the archive of www.chiesa.espressonline.it from January of this year called "Holy War: The Year the Muslims Took Rome"), and the Turkish aggressions against Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries in which they were defeated respectively at Lepanto in 1572 and Vienna in 1683. With a record like this, is it any wonder Christendom invented the Crusades and European and Western "colonialism" and "imperialism" became involved in the Middle East?

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