Egyptian Greeks information

Egyptian Greeks
Έλληνες της Αιγύπτου
Total population
	200,000 (1920) 300,000+ (c. 1940) estimates vary between 5,000–60,000 (today)
Regions with significant populations
	Alexandria, Cairo
Languages
	Greek · Egyptian Arabic · French · English
Religion
	Coptic Orthodox Church · Greek Orthodox Church · Greek Catholic Church · Sunni Islam · Shia Islam
Related ethnic groups
	African Greeks · Ethiopian Greeks, Sudanese Greeks · Roman Africans

The Egyptian Greeks, also known as Egyptiotes (Greek: Αιγυπτιώτες, romanized: Aigyptiótes) or simply Greeks in Egypt (Greek: Έλληνες της Αιγύπτου, romanized: Éllines tis Aigýptou), are the ethnic Greek community from Egypt that has existed from the Hellenistic period until the aftermath of the Egyptian coup d'état of 1952, when most were forced to leave.

^ Pelt, Mogens (1998). Tobacco, Arms, and Politics: Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1929-41. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 480. ISBN 978-87-7289-450-8. [...] the total Greek population in Egypt numbered about 200,000 in 1920.
^ Sadat, Jehan (2002). A Woman of Egypt. Simon and Schuster. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7432-3708-6. The rest of Egypt was divided by King Farouk into two classes [...] Egypt had long been an international crossroads, with more than 300,000 Greeks, 100,000 Italians, 50,000 stateless Jews and thousands more who carried French and British passports settling in Cairo and Alexandria after World War I. Many Cypriots, Maltese and North African Arabs had also made their homes in Egypt.
^ English version of Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports a few thousand http://www.mfa.gr/missionsabroad/en/egypt-en/bilateral-relations/cultural-relations-and-greek-community.html and Greek version 3.800 http://www.mfa.gr/dimereis-sheseis-tis-ellados/aigyptos/morphotikes-politistikes-sxeseis-kai-apodimos-ellinismos.html Archived 2020-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
^ Number higher when counting those who have taken Egyptian citizenship
^ Rippin, Andrew (2008). World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 978-0415456531.

[1] Pelt, Mogens (1998). Tobacco, Arms, and Politics: Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1929-41. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 480. ISBN 978-87-7289-450-8. [...] the total Greek population in Egypt numbered about 200,000 in 1920.

[2] Sadat, Jehan (2002). A Woman of Egypt. Simon and Schuster. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7432-3708-6. The rest of Egypt was divided by King Farouk into two classes [...] Egypt had long been an international crossroads, with more than 300,000 Greeks, 100,000 Italians, 50,000 stateless Jews and thousands more who carried French and British passports settling in Cairo and Alexandria after World War I. Many Cypriots, Maltese and North African Arabs had also made their homes in Egypt.

[3] English version of Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports a few thousand http://www.mfa.gr/missionsabroad/en/egypt-en/bilateral-relations/cultural-relations-and-greek-community.html and Greek version 3.800 http://www.mfa.gr/dimereis-sheseis-tis-ellados/aigyptos/morphotikes-politistikes-sxeseis-kai-apodimos-ellinismos.html Archived 2020-08-07 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Number higher when counting those who have taken Egyptian citizenship

[5] Rippin, Andrew (2008). World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 978-0415456531.

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Total population
200,000 (1920)^[1] 300,000+ (c. 1940)^[2] estimates vary between 5,000–60,000^[3]^[4]^[5] (today)
Regions with significant populations
Alexandria, Cairo
Languages
Greek · Egyptian Arabic · French · English
Religion
Coptic Orthodox Church · Greek Orthodox Church · Greek Catholic Church · Sunni Islam · Shia Islam
Related ethnic groups
African Greeks · Ethiopian Greeks, Sudanese Greeks · Roman Africans

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