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The name means 'brotherly love' from the Greek 'phileo' to love and 'adelphos' meaning 'brother'. Taken from the name of a city in Asia Minor mentioned in the New Testament, which came into the possession of the Turks in 1392. Now called Allahshehr, translated as 'City of God'

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