The law/custom of offering protection and hospitality to strangers (cf. its opposite: xenophobia). The law/custom was felt to be so fundamental to human civilized life that its patron was Zeus Xenios: "Zeus the god who protects strangers."
Xenia (Greek ξενία, xenÃa) is the Greek concept of hospitality and guest-host relations. It is often translated "guest-friendship" (or "ritualized friendship"), because the rituals of hospitality created and expressed a reciprocal relationship between guest and host. (See further xenos (Greek), which is the term for "guest-friend.")
Small TextXenia (also Xeniya, Ksenia, Kseniya, or Xena; derived from Greek ξενία xenia] - "hospitality".Other fonts point the word ξÎνος [ksénos] - 'foreigner' as the origin of the name. It would be parallel to the Latin name Barbara which also means 'foreigner'.) is a female name used mainly in RussiaКÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ [Ksenija], obsolete ÐкÑÐ¸Ð½ÑŒÑ [Aksin'ja] and Greece. In Spain it started to become a popular name during the 90s.