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Regarding the question of young men who are immigrants, there is Greek text used in the UK years ago to teach Greek to young men about a Greek army of mercenaries hired to overthrow the emperor of Persia. The first battle was in what is now the middle of Turkey. The Persian who hired them (the emperor’s nephew) was killed in the first battle and the book describes the attempt of the mercenaries to get back to Greece. When they heroically managed to get back to the strait of Bosporus the Greeks did not want to allow them to cross because no Greek city wanted to allow 5,000 unpaired young men with combat experience to enter their gate.

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