A Conversation for GG: The Peloponnese, Greece
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flyingtwinkle Started conversation Mar 7, 2006
the corinthian s were conquered by the romans and evolved into the byzantine empire .did it in some way influence russian culture?
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 7, 2006
Very definitely. The Russians got their religion from the Byzantines rather than from the Roman church. The Russian Orthodox (Christian) CHurch is basically a branch of the Greek Orthodox Church. Their alphabet also came from Greek rather than Roman.
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