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The terms Asia Minor Greeks, Anatolian Greeks or Mikrasiates (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), refer to the Greek populations who lived in Asia Minor from the 13th century BC,[1] up until the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey according to the Treaty of Lausanne, in the aftermath of World War I and the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).

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Asia Minor Greeks
Μικρασιάτες
Mikrasiates
Asia Minor Greek Teachers and Graduates from the Evangelical School of Smyrna
Regions with significant populations
Historically Asia Minor, present day Greece
Languages
Demotic Greek
Asia Minor Greek (including Cappadocian and Pontic Greek)
Propontis Tsakonian Greek
other languages (diaspora)
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
Byzantines, Rum millet, Ottoman Greeks, Greeks, Mariupol Greeks, Urums, Tsakonians
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Most of the Asia Minor Greeks migrated to Greece. Today, many Greeks descending from Asia Minor Greek refugees live all over Greece and the diaspora. Greeks in present day Turkey form a small minority, mostly living in Istanbul.

Historical context

Linguistic map of the Roman Empire c.400
The Byzantine Empire at the death of Basil II in 1025

Ancient Greek

Hellenistic

East Roman

Ottoman

An official Ottoman document giving the results of the 1914 population census. The total population (sum of all millets) was 20,975,345, of which 1,792,206 were Greeks.
Distribution of ethnic Greek population in Anatolia at the end of the 19th century

Modern

For the whole of the period between 1914 and 1922 and for the whole of Anatolia, there are academic estimates of death toll ranging from 289,000 to 750,000 Ottoman Greeks killed. The figure of 750,000 is suggested by political scientist Adam Jones.[2] Scholar Rudolph Rummel compiled various figures from several studies to estimate lower and higher bounds for the death toll between 1914 and 1923. He estimates that 384,000 Greeks were exterminated from 1914 to 1918, and 264,000 from 1920 to 1922, with the total number reaching 648,000.[3][4] Historian Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou writes that "loss of life among Anatolian Greeks during the WWI period and its aftermath was approximately 735,370".[5]

Smyrniote Greeks

Smyrniote Greeks (Greek: Σμυρνιώτες Έλληνες; Turkish: İzmir Yunanlıları) are a Greek ethnic community originating from Smyrna and its surrounding region on the western Anatolia.[citation needed]

Pontic Greeks

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[6][7] group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northeastern Anatolia.

Cappadocian Greeks

Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (Greek: Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar)[8] or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community who traditionally lived to or originated from the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia up until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

Notable Asia Minor Greeks

Ancient Greek

Byzantine

Modern

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