The name Europe comes from a Greek myth in which the beautiful daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor of the Greek god Zeus, the father was kidnapped. Zeus made this very skillfully in the form of a bull. He approached Europe, that was the princess, and lured them by his abounding manhood of imposing appearance. When she sat down on his back, not a wild rodeo began, as known from Texas, USA, but Zeus had something else with it before. He ran wildly towards the coast and swam straight to Crete, where he was then in human form is married to her.
This is a beautiful legend that one reads again and again. But it has a historic core?
Previously it was believed that the stories were pure fantasy products, but now they have proved useful historical evidence. LIKE TO I make an interpretation of the Europe-Sage.
It is said that the beautiful Europe was a Phoenician, that is a Semite, the Phoenician, a Semitic language, said. The home of the Phoenicians is today Lebanon, where people live who still speak a Semitic language, Arabic today.
your ancestors can therefore be regarded as cultural creators in Europe. They have explored as horizontal bold seafarers throughout the Mediterranean and founded trading posts or settlements everywhere. Under the name Punic they are destroyed centuries later by the Romans. Its important colony of Carthage in North Africa was completely destroyed and the inhabitants sold as slaves.
The Phoenicians were very intelligent people who have a pure alphabet used to trade, unlike the Egyptians, who expresses a complex sound-symbol font bedienten.Die Europe saga into pretty embellished way that the Phoenicians also Crete were controlled and there have left their cultural values, a particular capacity for their writing, which was then transformed by the Greeks and adapted to their vowel-rich language. Without the Phoenicians, the Greeks would certainly not come as quickly in the spotlight of world history. If one examines the Greek vocabulary for his Semitic heritage, is one of the numerous and unexpected similarities be surprised.
I come back to Zeus and Europe. Zeus married her and brought forth children. Fasting have considered scientifically blended here on the West Crete and Asia and to the benefit of the West, which later took the name of the Phoenician princess.
way does the name "Europe" in Hebrew, a Semitic language "evening, West (ערב erew), also an indication of the cultural ties Semitic and Indo-European peoples.
A continent has received the name of a language there in large Size is not home. That shows how much Europe was on the edge of the former civilizations.
It was in the minds of Asians only a dark, unknown land mass, as where the sun goes down. When the child, ie Europe, got its name, first flourished Crete, Greece, then by the tremendous cultural import from Babylonia and Egypt. The Greek scientists, philosophers, they were called then, quickly took over the ancient knowledge of the Semitic peoples and enriched it the way it has survived over the millennia. This transfer of culture from East to West can not be considered important enough. He is neglected in European history and distorted. This is a very important point considering the cultural growth of Europe.
Europe as the name was initially confined to the Greek mainland. The islands and peninsulas were not included. Since the 6th century BC called the Ionians (Greek hikers) all countries north of the Mediterranean as Europe. As the boundary between Europe and Asia, the Don (Tanais) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica angesehen.In Europe is defined as: "Europe. The western peninsula-shaped extensions of the Eurasian land mass does conventional one, the Atlantic archipelagos. To the east are the borders along the Urals to the Black Sea ". (Vossen, 1992 p. 9)
This definition can be left out Turkey. Today's core territory of the Turks was called in antiquity "Asia Minor" (Asia Minor). This term has been preserved in the minds of historians and the lay people, although has already received by the Hellenization of Asia Minor following the conquest of Alexander the Great's nothing "Asian" section. Even the Byzantine Empire was based on European culture, which existed in the then Ottoman subliminal range. The definition of Europe should take account of these historical facts and involve countries gave her the inhabitants of their story and want to apply their will as Europeans.
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