Asia Minor Greeks

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Asia Minor Greeks
Μικρασιάτες
Asia Minor, present day Greece
Languages
Modern Greek, English (diaspora)
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks

The Asia Minor Greeks (

Asia Minor from 1200s BCE as a result of Greek colonization[1] until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey
in 1923, though some communities in Asia Minor survive to the present day.

Cappadocian Greeks

Main article: Cappadocian Greeks

Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (

Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia
.

Pontic Greeks

Main article: Pontic Greeks

The Pontic Greeks (Greek: Πόντιοι, romanized: Póndii or Ελληνοπόντιοι, romanized: Ellinopóndii; Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları, Georgian: პონტოელი ბერძნები, romanized: P’ont’oeli Berdznebi) are an ethnically Greek[3][4] group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northeastern Anatolia.

Other Asia Minor Greeks

Historical context

References

  1. Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived
    from the original on 2015-06-19. Before the Greek migrations that followed the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE), probably the only Greek-speaking communities on the west coast of Anatolia were Mycenaean settlements at Iasus and Müskebi on the Halicarnassus peninsula and walled Mycenaean colonies at Miletus and Colophon.
  2. ISBN 978-975-10-2928-7
    . Evlerin bolluk ve bereketi şu veya bu sebeple kaçmışsa, özellikle Rumların yoğun olarak yaşadığı Orta ve Kuzey Anadolu'da bunun sebebinin karakoncolos isimli iblis olduğu düşünülürmüş. Kapadokyalı Rumlar yeni yılın başında sırf ...
  3. ISBN 1857430638
    . Pontic Greeks An ethnic Greek minority found in Georgia and originally concentrated in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The Pontic Greeks are ultimately descended from Greek colonists of the Caucasus region (who named the Black Sea the Pontic Sea)
  4. ISBN 978-0313346422
    . Pontic Greeks, Genocide of. The Pontic (sometimes Pontian) Greek genocide is the term applied to the massacres and deportations perpetuated against ethnic Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the Young Turk government between 1914 and 1923. The name of this people derives from the Greek word pontus, meaning "sea coast," and refers to the Greek population that lived on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea, that is, in northern Turkey, for three millennia.
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