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coptic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | egyptian |
coptic:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Derivation | copt |
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Coptic Christians, who make up about 10% of the country, hurried to its defense.
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Later coptic textiles showed the influence of Byzantium and later, Islamic art.
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There definitely needs to be steps taken to protect the coptic christian churches.
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Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt's estimated 90 million people.
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Coptic sources raise the number to 144,000 and place the event on 29 December.
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Sam Bacile is a coptic christian who is also a convicted felon for bank fraud.
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Coptic verbs do not inflect at the end of a verb but rather at the beginning.
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Coptic decoration used intricate geometric designs, often anticipating Islamic art.
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Coptic Christians make up about 10 per cent of Egypt's estimated 90 million people.
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- The liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet
- Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ('''') is a modern form of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventh century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century. ...
- The Copts are an ethno-religious group situated in North Africa and the Middle East, mainly in the area of modern Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination. They are also the largest Christian denomination in Sudan and Libya...
- (Copts) (Gr. "cut off from the main body"). These are the Oriental churches of the East which were separated from the Orthodox Church after the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.) for following the false teachings of Monophysitism (belief in one nature (physis) of Christ).
- (Copts) The Christian descendants of the ancient Egyptians, from a corruption of the Greek word for Egyptian, Aigyptios.
- (Copts) Christian sect of Egypt; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule. (p. 335)
- (Copts) [from Arab from Greek Aigyptioi] The early native Christians of Egypt and their successors of the Monophysite sect, and now racially the closest representatives of the population of ancient Egypt. ...
- Refers to Egyptian Christians and their language.
- St. Mark, writer of one of the gospels, established this form of Christianity in Egypt during the first century C.E.
