Asia Minor Greeks are using the Greek Orthodox flag
Mikrasiates Teachers and Graduates from the Evangelical School of Smyrna
Regions with significant populations
Historically 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 (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations who lived in 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.
^"Anatolia - Greek colonies on the Anatolian coasts, c. 1180–547 bce". 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.
The AsiaMinorGreeks (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations...
Enlightenment and the subsequent Greek War of Independence, raised the hopes of the AsiaMinorGreeks for sovereignty. Many Greeks from Anatolia fought as revolutionaries...
By late 1922, most of the Greeks of AsiaMinor had either fled or had been killed. Those remaining were transferred to Greece under the terms of the later...
Byzantine Greeks of Anatolia. The language originally diverged from Medieval Greek after the late medieval migrations of the Turks from Central Asia into what...
Before Greeks and Greek culture arrived in AsiaMinor, the area was controlled by another Indo-European people, the Hittites. Mycenaean Greeks set up...
000 teachers, 2,000 Greek Orthodox churches, and 3,000 Greek Orthodox priests. From 1914 until 1923, Greeks in Thrace and AsiaMinor were subject to a campaign...
Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), also known as AsiaMinor, is a large peninsula located in West Asia and a region of Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary...
Age. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of AsiaMinor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia...
The Army of AsiaMinor (Greek: Στρατιά Μικράς Ασίας) was the field army-level command controlling the Greek forces in AsiaMinor (Anatolia) during the...
thousand AsiaMinorGreeks, along with similar numbers of Assyrians and a larger number of Armenians. The resultant Greek exodus from AsiaMinor was made...
Turkey. In Greek, Greeks from AsiaMinor are referred to as Greek: Μικρασιάτες or Greek: Ανατολίτες (Mikrasiátes or Anatolítes, lit. "AsiaMinor-ites" and...
Committee for Greeks of AsiaMinor (1917–1921) was a relief organization established during World War I in response to the genocide of Greeks in the Ottoman...
the idea of an exchange of populations between the Greeks in AsiaMinor and the Muslims in Greece". Eventually, the initial request for an exchange of...
for the Greeks, Achaeans. These proposals were primarily motivated by linguistic similarities, since "Taruisa" is a plausible match for the Greek name "Troia"...
other symbols. The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The most common native ethnonym is Hellen (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην), pl. Hellenes...
million Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians were killed in the regimes of the Young Turks and Mustafa Kemal, from 1914 to 1923. Greeks in AsiaMinor fled to...
married and had two daughters, Kalliope and Greece. During the AsiaMinor Catastrophe many Greeks of AsiaMinor were massacred and those who were rescued...
thousands of Greeks, including the extermination of Pontian and Anatolian Greeks, the destruction of Smyrna, and widespread ethnic cleansing in Greek areas of...
Caucasus are in contemporary Greek academic circles often referred to as "Eastern Pontic [Greeks]" or Caucasian Greeks. The Turkic-speaking Urums are...
Rum), also known as the Greeks of Transcaucasia and Russian AsiaMinor, are the ethnic Greeks of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia in what is now southwestern...
corner Sarantaporou, 60100 Katerini, Pieria, Greece. Between 1914 and 1923, Greeks in Eastern Thrace and AsiaMinor were persecuted by the Ottomans and forcibly...
Miletus and some other cities founded earlier by non-Greeks received populations of Mycenaean Greeks. Greek settlement of Ionia seems to have accelerated following...
Some cities in Greece and several in AsiaMinor held annual festivals to bind and detain him as their protector. In parts of AsiaMinor, he was an oracular...
PONTIC DIALECT OF MODERN GREEK IN ASIAMINOR AND RUSSIA". Transactions of the Philological Society 36.1 (1937): 15–52. "Greeks of the Steppe". The Washington...
Latin speakers identified them simply as Greeks or with the term Romaei. The social structure of the Byzantine Greeks was primarily supported by a rural, agrarian...
Kasaba, Bergama and Ayvali. The repatriation of the AsiaMinorGreeks who had sought refuge in the Greek Kingdom as a result of the deportations and persecutions...
independent Greek state in Ionia in case the Greek campaign in AsiaMinor proved to be a failure, as well as to protect the Ottoman Greeks of the region...
three main tribes of the Greeks, the Aeolians (chiefly living in the islands of the Aegean and the west coast of AsiaMinor north of Smyrna), the Ionians...
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