Hellenism (yellow) in the Aegean during and after World War I by George Soteriadis of the University of Athens.
Ottoman Greeks (Greek: Ρωμιοί; Turkish: Osmanlı Rumları) were ethnic Greeks who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922), much of which is in modern Turkey. Ottoman Greeks were Greek Orthodox Christians who belonged to the Rum Millet (Millet-i Rum). They were concentrated in eastern Thrace (especially in and around Constantinople), and western, central, and northeastern Anatolia (especially in Smyrna, Cappadocia, and Erzurum vilayet, respectively). There were also sizeable Greek communities elsewhere in the Ottoman Balkans, Ottoman Armenia, and the Ottoman Caucasus, including in what, between 1878 and 1917, made up the Russian Caucasus province of Kars Oblast, in which Pontic Greeks, northeastern Anatolian Greeks, and Caucasus Greeks who had collaborated with the Russian Imperial Army in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 were settled in over 70 villages, as part of official Russian policy to re-populate with Orthodox Christians an area that was traditionally made up of Ottoman Muslims and Armenians.
OttomanGreeks (Greek: Ρωμιοί; Turkish: Osmanlı Rumları) were ethnic Greeks who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922), much of which is in modern Turkey...
of the Ottoman Empire, Greeks had to carry a receipt certifying their payment of jizya at all times or be subject to imprisonment. Most Greeks did not...
same time, a number of Greeks enjoyed a privileged position in the Ottoman state as members of the Ottoman bureaucracy. Greeks controlled the affairs...
Before Greeks and Greek culture arrived in Asia Minor, the area was controlled by another Indo-European people, the Hittites. Mycenaean Greeks set up...
had inhabited the region prior to the Ottoman conquest, including Pontic Greeks, Caucasus Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, Zazas, Georgians...
The Greeks or Hellenes (/ˈhɛliːnz/; Greek: Έλληνες, Éllines [ˈelines]) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia...
nationalism OttomanGreeks, Pontic Greeks, Greek refugees Eastern Orthodoxy World War I, Aftermath of World War I Armenian genocide, Ottoman Armenians Armistice...
The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Greek: Ομογένεια, romanized: Omogéneia), are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus...
Greek community in the Pontus region (the northeast of modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and its aftermath. The Pontic Greeks held...
Caucasus Greeks only began referring to themselves as Pontians when they went to work in Greece. During Ottoman times, most Pontian Greeks did not see...
Asia Minor Greeks (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations...
"Anatolians"), while Greeks from Pontos (Pontic Greeks) are known as Greek: Πόντιοι (Póntioi). Greeks from Istanbul are known as Greek: Κωνσταντινουπολίτες...
alongside other OttomanGreeks, were targeted by the Ittihadist Ottoman authorities in what is now historically known as the OttomanGreek genocide. As a...
dates to the period of Ottoman rule in the southern Balkans. They consist primarily of Ottoman-era converts to Islam from Greek Macedonia (e.g., Vallahades)...
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...
pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco-Bactrian...
The most common foreign languages learned by Greeks are English, German, French and Italian. Modern Greek language (Νεοελληνική γλώσσα) is the only official...
1204. The Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453 and advanced southwards into the Balkan peninsula capturing Athens in 1458. The Greeks held out in...
population at the time), 550,000 Pontic Greeks, 900,000 Anatolian Greeks and 60,000 Cappadocian Greeks. Arrivals in Greece from the exchange numbered 1,310,000...
The 1914 Greek deportations was the forcible expulsion of around 150,000 to 300,000 OttomanGreeks from Eastern Thrace and the Aegean coast of Anatolia...
Empire based on religion. Greeks living in the plains during Ottoman rule were either Christians or crypto-Christians, Greek "Muslims" who were secret...
foreigners. Greece–Syria relations Antiochian Greek Christians Greeks in Armenia Greeks in Israel Greeks in Lebanon Greeks in Turkey Greek Ministry of...
Crete Plaginos Rizos Neroulos Ramadan Souldjaroglou Tzoukes OttomanGreeks Diafotismos Greeks in Romania Bulgarian Exarchate Early Modern Romania Danubian...
the Greek lands. In 1821, the Greeks rose up against the Ottoman Empire. Initial successes were followed by infighting, which almost caused the Greek struggle...
Arab Revolt. During this period, the Ottoman government engaged in genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. In the aftermath of World War I, the...
the Muslims first, then the Greeks, then the Armenians, then the Jews, now all of them were put on the same level. Some Greeks objected to this, saying:...
dominated by OttomanGreek immigrants and their Greek-Russian successors. They would play prominent roles in the history of Greece and the Greeks until their...
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