Dodecanese The few remaining Knights fled to Malta. Thus began a period of several hundred years in the Ottoman Empire. The Dodecanese formed a separate province within the Eyalet of the Archipelago. The population was allowed to retain a number of privileges provided it submitted to Ottoman rule. By Suleiman's edict, they paid a special tax in return for a special autonomous status that prohibited Ottoman generals from interfering in their civil affairs or mistreating the population. These guarantees, combined with a strategic location at the crossroads of Mediterranean shipping, allowed the islands to prosper. The overwhelmingly Greek population (only Rhodes
Greek Gospel of the Egyptians is difficult to tell from what group the text originated. Another comparable verse appended to the "Gospel of Thomas", probably in Egypt, reads: The so-called Second Epistle of Clement (12:2) closely paraphrases a passage that was also quoted by Clement of Alexandria (in "Stromateis" iii): The trope appears in the "Gospel of Thomas", saying (37): For a somewhat later Gnostic work assigning a prominent role to Jesus' female disciples, see "Pistis Sophia". Greek Gospel of the Egyptians The Greek "Gospel of the Egyptians" is an early Christian religious text. Its title is adopted from its opening line. The Greek Gospel