In the late Ottoman period, particularly after the Greco-Turkish War (1897), several communities of Grecophone Muslims from Crete and southern Greece were also relocated to Libya, Lebanon, and Syria, where, in towns like al-Hamidiyah, some of the older generation continue to speak Greek. Historically, Greek Orthodoxy has been associated with being "Romios" (i.e., Greek) and Islam with being Turkish, despite ethnicity or language.