Modern Greek Studies Yearbook a Publication of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Eastern Orthodox Studies
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Russian Old Believers: genetic consequences of their persecution and exile, as shown by mitochondrial DNA evidence.
In 1653, the Patriarch Nikon modified liturgical practices to bring the Russian Orthodox Church in line with those of the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church, from which it had split 200 years earlier. The Old Believers (staroveri) rejected these changes and continued to worship using the earlier practices. These actions resulted in their persecution by the Russian Orthodox Church, which forced the...
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In the December 2004 issue of your journal, in his Out of the Box column, Geoffrey Cannon referred to Ancel Keys’ Seven Countries Study and the fact that Keys and his colleagues seemed to have ignored the possibility that Greek Orthodox Christian fasting practices could have influenced the dietary habits of male Cretans in the 1960s. For this reason, we had a personal communication with Profess...
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Moldova has a rich historical and cultural heritage, which may be reflected in the current genetic makeup of its population. To date, no comprehensive studies exist about the population genetic structure of modern Moldavians. To bridge this gap with respect to paternal lineages, we analyzed 37 binary and 17 multiallelic (STRs) polymorphisms on the non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome in ...
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The study of the Greek language is argued here to be of relevance to Slavic studies and Slavic linguistics in several ways. After a brief presentation of some of the more important connections between Greek and the Slavic linguistic world, the focus is turned to one in particular that has not commanded the attention it might, namely the fact that Greek has historically been spoken and continues...
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Introduction The Minnesota Population Center’s IPUMS-International project (www.ipums.org/international) integrates and disseminates high precision population census samples to researchers and policy makers world-wide at no cost (McCaa and Ruggles 2000). Begun in 1999 with a five year grant from the National Science Foundation (now extended to fifteen years), the initiative includes the United ...
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