Pieria Asia Minor Society Training and exercises of the various departments take place in the clubs building. In June 2018, the association hosted the second Panhellenic Meeting of People from Asia Minor (2ο Πανελλήνιο Αντάμωμα Μικρασιατών) in Katerini. There were about 2000 dancers and musicians from all over Greece. Further activities: Performances of the dancers, singers and the theater group took place in almost all of Greece. Abroad, Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey, Austria and Germany were traveled. Pieria Asia Minor Society After the Greco-Turkish population exchange in 1923, many of the Greek refugees from Asia Minor (Anatolia) came to Macedonia. To help the new arrivals
Religions of the ancient Near East and Arabian religion. Judaism is a development of Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions influenced the ancient Greek religion, and Zoroastrianism was a product of ancient Indo-Iranian religion. In turn these religious traditions strongly influenced the later monotheistic religions of Christianity, Mandeanism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Islam, and Manicheanism, which inherited their monotheism from Judaism and Zoroastrianism. The history of the ancient Near East spans more than two millennia, from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, in the region now known as the Middle East, centered on the Fertile Crescent. There was much cultural contact, so that it is