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Copts are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Egypt who have inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egypt
Faiyum mummy portrait of an Egyptian man with sword belt, Altes Museum
Coptic icon of St. Mark
The Hanging Church in Coptic Cairo
Egyptian Coptic monks at the American Colony, Jerusalem, between 1898 and 1914.
Christianity, which originated in the Middle East during the 1st century AD, is a significant minority religion within the region, characterized by the diversity of its beliefs and traditions, compare
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Of this photo, the U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. wrote, "Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation".
Greek Christians in 1922, fleeing from their homes in Kharput and moving to Trebizond. In the 1910s and 1920s, the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides were perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.
About 1.5 million Armenians were killed during the Armenian genocide in 1915–1918.