The Cappadocian Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar), or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical...
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as Cappadocian Greeks) were forced to emigrate to Greece where they were resettled in various locations, primarily in Central and Northern Greece. The...
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Asia Minor Greeks (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations...
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The Cappadocian Fathers, also traditionally known as the Three Cappadocians, were a trio of Byzantine Christian prelates, theologians and monks who helped...
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Derinkuyu underground city (category Articles containing Cappadocian Greek-language text)
(p 16) In the 20th century, the underground cities were still used by Cappadocian Greeks and Armenians to escape periodic persecutions. Richard MacGillivray...
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Derinkuyu (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
Derinkuyu ("deep well") (Cappadocian Greek: Μαλακοπή; Latin: Malacopia) is a town in Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is...
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the Cappadocian (Greek: Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Καππαδόκης; 1840 – November 10, 1924), born in Kephalochori, Cappadocia (Greek: Κεφαλοχώρι) was a Greek dean...
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1964 expulsion of Istanbul Greeks), emigration of ethnic Greeks from the Istanbul region greatly accelerated, reducing the Greek minority population from...
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The most common foreign languages learned by Greeks are English, German, French and Italian. Modern Greek language (Νεοελληνική γλώσσα) is the only official...
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modern Greek diaspora. Ancient Greece portal Greece portal Antiochian Greeks Arvanites Cappadocian Greeks Caucasian Greeks Greek Cypriots Greek Diaspora...
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John the Cappadocian (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Καππαδόκης) (fl. 530s, living 548) was a praetorian prefect of the East (532–541) in the Byzantine Empire under...
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Kaymakli underground city (category Articles containing Cappadocian Greek-language text)
Kaymakli underground city (Turkish: Kaymaklı; Cappadocian Greek: Ανακού) is contained within the citadel of Kaymakli in Nevşehir Province, in the Central...
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co-existed in Greece throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Varieties of Modern Greek include Demotic, Katharevousa, Pontic, Cappadocian, Mariupolitan...
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modern Turkey. Cappadocian can also refer to: Cappadocian Greeks, an ethnic Greek community native to the region of Cappadocia Cappadocian Greek, a dialect...
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the Mistiot dialect of Cappadocian in Central and Northern Greece. Cappadocian Greek diverged from the other Byzantine Greek varieties earlier, beginning...
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Paisios of Mount Athos (category Cappadocian Greeks)
during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Arsenios' name was given to him by Arsenios the Cappadocian, who baptised him, naming the child...
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Cappadocia (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Herodotus wrote that the name of the Cappadocians was applied to them by the Persians, while they were termed by the Greeks "White Syrians" (Leucosyri), who...
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Karamanlides (category Cappadocian Greeks)
who travelled in Konya in 1800, wrote: [...] the generality of the Cappadocian Greeks is ignorant of their own language and use the Turkish in the church...
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of Cypriots Cappadocian Greeks Greeks in New Zealand Pontic Greeks Shared haplotype % represents the proportion of individuals among Greek Cypriots (344...
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2015) (subscription required) Cappadocian Greek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Mycenaean Greek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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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...
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Saint George (category Cappadocian Greeks)
Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek origin, he became a member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor...
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Caesarea (Mazaca) (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
Labors of Hercules at Kayseri Archaeology Museum dates to 150-160 CE Cappadocian Greeks in Kayseri Mazaka Land in Kayseri, Turkey House in Kayseri from an...
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Giorgio Tsoukalos Demetrio B. Lakas Elli AvrRam Antiochian Greeks Cappadocian Greek Church of Greece Cypriot Orthodox Church Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople...
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region prior to the Ottoman conquest, including Pontic Greeks, Caucasus Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, Zazas, Georgians, Circassians, Assyrians...
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Byzantine era Ottoman Greeks, Greek people of the Ottoman era Pontic Greeks, Greek people of the Pontic region Cappadocian Greeks, Greek people from Cappadocia...
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Caucasus province of Kars Oblast, in which Pontic Greeks, northeastern Anatolian Greeks, and Caucasus Greeks who had collaborated with the Russian Imperial...
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Lebanon Indo-European peoples Armenians in Turkey Greeks in Turkey Cappadocian Greeks Pontic Greeks Levantines Iranian peoples Kurds in Turkey Romani...
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Cappadocian Greek and Cypriot Maronite-Arabic are cases of extreme borrowing—the former from Turkish and the latter from Greek. The remaining Greek dialects...
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million Greeks left homeless. The Germans executed around 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians 40,000, and the Italians 9,000. Following liberation, Greece annexed...
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