Anatolian Greeks

Anatolian Greeks or Asiatic Greeks refers to any of the ancient or modern ethnic Greek populations who lived in Anatolia from 1200s BCE (at the latest)[1] until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, though some communities in Anatolia survive to the present day.

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[2][3] group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northeastern Anatolia.

Country / region	Official data	Estimate	Concentration	Article
Greece	240,695 (1928)[4]	500,000 (2019)[5]	Athens, Macedonia, Thrace	Greek refugees
Turkey	4,540 (1965)	345,000 – 464,530(1919)[6]	Trabzon, Rize, Sakarya, Ordu, Giresun, Gümüşhane, İstanbul	Greeks in Turkey, Greek Muslims
USA		40,000 (1919)[7] – 200,000	Illinois, New York, Massachusetts	Greek American
Germany		100,000		Greeks in Germany
Russia	97,827 (2002)	650,000 (1918)[8]	34,078 in Stavropol Krai 26,540 in Krasnodar Krai	Greeks in Russia
Ukraine	91,548 (2001)		77,516 in Donetsk Oblast	Greeks in Ukraine (Taurica)
Australia		56,000		Greek Australian
Canada		20,000	Ontario, Quebec	Greek Canadians
Cyprus		20,000		Greek Cypriots
Czech Republic		less than 3,500; 12,000 (1949–1974)		Greeks in the Czech Republic
Romania	6,472 (2002)	14,000[9]	Izvoarele (43.82%), Sulina (1.69%), Constanța, Bucharest	Greeks in Romania
Georgia	15,166 (2002)		7,415 in Kvemo Kartli 3,792 in Tbilisi 2,168 in Adjara	Greeks in Georgia
Kazakhstan	12,703 (2010)		2,160 in Karagandy 1,767 in Almaty 1,637 in Zhambyl	Greeks in Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan	10,453 (1989)[10]			Greeks in Uzbekistan
Armenia	900 (2011)[11]	2,000		Greeks in Armenia

Cappadocian Greeks

Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (Greek: Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar)[12] or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia.

Other Anatolian Greeks

Historical context

Pontic colonies (classical antiquity)
Hellenistic Anatolia (Hellenistic and Roman era)
Byzantine Anatolia (Middle Ages)
Ottoman Greeks (early modern), the Republic of Turkey's predecessor
Greeks in Turkey (modern), Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians
Greek refugees

References

"Anatolia - Greek colonies on the Anatolian coasts, c. 1180–547 bce". Encyclopedia Britannica. 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.
Alan John Day; Roger East; Richard Thomas (2002). A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. p. 454. 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)
Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul Robert; Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. ABC-CLIO. p. 337. 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.
Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Michael Stephen Silk, page 52, 2009
Bateman, Jessica. "The revival of a second Greek language". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2021-05-01. Today, around 500,000 Pontics live in Greece – around 5% of the total population...
Greece: The Modern Sequel: from 1821 to the present. John S. Koliopoulos,Thanos Veremis,C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Mai 2007) P. 285
Konstantinidis K., "Οι Έλληνες του Πόντου" (in English: The Greeks of Pontus), p.195
Fotiadis K., "Οι Έλληνες της πρώην Σοβιετικής Ένωσης. Η γένεση της διασπορας" (in English: "The Greeks of the former Soviet Union. The origination of the Diaspora"), p.36
ΓΕΝΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΔΙΑΣΠΟΡΑΣ, ggae.gr.
(in Russian) Этнический Атлас Узбекистана / Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan Archived 7 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
2011 Armenian Census
Özkan, Akdoğan (2009). Kardeş bayramlar ve özel günler. İnkılâp. 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 ...

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[1] "Anatolia - Greek colonies on the Anatolian coasts, c. 1180–547 bce". Encyclopedia Britannica. 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.

[Day,_Alan_John_2002_454-2] Alan John Day; Roger East; Richard Thomas (2002). A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. p. 454. 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)

[Totten,_Samuel;_Bartrop,_Paul_Robert;_Jacobs,_Steven_L._2008_337-3] Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul Robert; Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. ABC-CLIO. p. 337. 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.

[Language_Standards_page_52-4] Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Michael Stephen Silk, page 52, 2009

[5] Bateman, Jessica. "The revival of a second Greek language". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2021-05-01. Today, around 500,000 Pontics live in Greece – around 5% of the total population...

[6] Greece: The Modern Sequel: from 1821 to the present. John S. Koliopoulos,Thanos Veremis,C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Mai 2007) P. 285

[7] Konstantinidis K., "Οι Έλληνες του Πόντου" (in English: The Greeks of Pontus), p.195

[8] Fotiadis K., "Οι Έλληνες της πρώην Σοβιετικής Ένωσης. Η γένεση της διασπορας" (in English: "The Greeks of the former Soviet Union. The origination of the Diaspora"), p.36

[9] ΓΕΝΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΔΙΑΣΠΟΡΑΣ, ggae.gr.

[10] (in Russian) Этнический Атлас Узбекистана / Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan Archived 7 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[11] 2011 Armenian Census

[Özkan,_Akdoğan_2009-12] Özkan, Akdoğan (2009). Kardeş bayramlar ve özel günler. İnkılâp. 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 ...