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, romanized: Mikrasiates), 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.
- ^ "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.