Asia Minor Greeks

Asia Minor Greeks
Μικρασιάτες
Asia Minor Greeks are using the Greek Orthodox flag
Anatolian Greek Teachers and Graduates from the Evangelical School of Smyrna
Regions with significant populations
Historically Asia Minor, present day Greece
Languages
Demotic Greek
Anatolian Greek dialects
other languages (diaspora)
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks

The Asia Minor Greeks (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanizedMikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations who lived in Asia Minor from the 13th century BC as a result of Greek colonization,[1] up until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, though some communities in Asia Minor survive to the present day.

  1. ^ "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.