Romaniote
English
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Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Ῥωμανιῶτες (Rhōmaniôtes).
Noun
Romaniote (plural Romaniotes)
- A member of a Jewish population living in Greece, historically distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Greece later.
- 1954, The Middle East Journal, page 359:
- Native (Romaniote) Jews submerged hy increasing numbers of Sephardi Jews plus the Karaites constituted the three main communities.
- 2012, Bernard Wasserstein, On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War[1]:
- Gradually, however, the greater wealth and more dynamic culture of the Sephardim overwhelmed the Romaniotes, most of whom merged with the newcomers.