Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks are the old newspapers, periodicals, and schoolbooks written in "karamanlidika", Turkish in Greek script. All this reflects the lifestyle of the Greek population which lived in the depths of Asia Minor, particularly in Karvali in Cappadocia. There are also some showcases displaying artefacts of the culture of the Hettae, an ancient culture which developed in Cappadocia. The museum runs educational programmes for schoolchildren, mainly on the theme of rugs and rug-making. Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks Nea Karvali is a village just above the Kavala–Xanthi old national highway, about 8 km from Kavala in East Macedonia, Greece.
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