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
Asia word "asa" meaning east. This may be contrasted to a similar etymology proposed for "Europe", as being from Akkadian "erēbu(m)" 'to enter' or 'set' (of the sun). T.R. Reid supports this alternative etymology, noting that the ancient Greek name must have derived from "asu", meaning 'east' in Assyrian ("ereb" for "Europe" meaning 'west'). The ideas of "Occidental" (form Latin "Occidens" 'setting') and "Oriental" (from Latin "Oriens" for 'rising') are also European invention, synonymous with "Western" and "Eastern". Reid further emphasizes that it explains the Western point of view of placing all the peoples and cultures of Asia into a single