Asia Minor Greeks

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

The Asia Minor Greeks (Template:Lang-el), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations who lived in Asia Minor from 1200s BCE as a result of Greek colonization^[1] until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, though some communities in Asia Minor survive to the present day.

Cappadocian Greeks

Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (Template:Lang-el; Template:Lang-tr)^[2] or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia.

Pontic Greeks

The Pontic Greeks (Template:Lang-el, romanized: Póndii or Ελληνοπόντιοι, romanized: Ellinopóndii; Template:Lang-tr or Karadeniz Rumları, Georgian: პონტოელი ბერძნები, romanized: P’ont’oeli Berdznebi) are an ethnically Greek^[3]^[4] group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northeastern Anatolia.

Other Asia Minor Greeks

Historical context

Pontic colonies (classical antiquity)
Hellenistic Anatolia (Hellenistic and Roman era)
Byzantine Anatolia (Middle Ages)
Ottoman Greeks (early modern), the Republic of Turkey's predecessor
Greeks in Turkey (modern), Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians
Greek refugees

Notable Asia Minor Greeks

Thales, pre-Socratic philosopher, the father of philosophy and science, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
Hesiod, poet, the first written poet in the Western tradition
Herodotus, historian and geographer, the father of history
Hecataeus of Miletus, historian and geographer, the father of geography
Hipparchus, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, considered the founder of trigonometry
Apollonius of Perga, geometer and astronomer, one of the greatest mathematicians of antiquity
Eudoxus of Cnidus, astronomer, mathematician, doctor, and lawmaker
Hippodamus, architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist, the father of European urban planning
Galen, physician and surgeon, one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity
Herophilos, physician, one of the earliest anatomists
Dioscorides, physician, pharmacologist, botanist, the father of pharmacognosy
Asclepiades of Bithynia, physician
Nicander, physician and poet
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, physician
Soranus of Ephesus, physician, most notably his four-volume treatise on gynecology
Rufus of Ephesus, physician
Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
Scylax of Caryanda, explorer and writer
Anacreon, lyric poet
Alcman, choral lyric poet
Aratus, didactic poet
Hipponax, iambic poet
Diphilus, one of the greatest poets of New Comedy
Chariton, wrote arguably the earliest surviving Western novel
Apelles, renowned painter
Anaximander, pre-Socratic philosopher, first to attempt making a map of the known world
Anaximenes, pre-Socratic philosopher
Heraclitus, pre-Socratic philosopher
Xenophanes, pre-Socratic philosopher, theologian and poet
Anaxagoras, pre-Socratic philosopher
Leucippus, pre-Socratic philosopher, the founder of atomism
Diogenes, philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism
Strato of Lampsacus, Peripatetic philosopher, called the Physicus
Cleanthes, Stoic philosopher
Chrysippus, Stoic philosopher
Epictetus, Stoic philosopher
Arcesilaus, philosopher, the founder of Academic Skepticism
Autolycus of Pitane, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Heraclides Ponticus, philosopher and astronomer, possibly the originator of the heliocentric theory
Philo of Byzantium, engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics
Callippus, astronomer and mathematician
Crates of Mallus, constructed the earliest known globe of the Earth
Sostratus of Cnidus, architect and engineer, probably designed the lighthouse of Alexandria
Alexander Polyhistor, scholar
Strabo, geographer and historian
Ctesias, historian
Ephorus, historian
Cassius Dio, historian
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, historian and teacher of rhetoric
Pausanias, geographer and historian
Diogenes Laertius, biographer of the Greek philosophers
Arrian, historian
Dio Chrysostom, historian and orator
Eunapius, historian
Cadmus of Miletus, the oldest of the logographers
Xanthus, historian

References

^ "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.
^ Özkan, Akdoğan (2009). Kardeş bayramlar ve özel günler. İnkılâp. ISBN 978-975-10-2928-7. Evlerin bolluk ve bereketi şu veya bu sebeple kaçmışsa, özellikle Rumların yoğun olarak yaşadığı Orta ve Kuzey Anadolu'da bunun sebebinin karakoncolos isimli iblis olduğu düşünülürmüş. Kapadokyalı Rumlar yeni yılın başında sırf ...
^ Alan John Day; Roger East; Richard Thomas (2002). A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. p. 454. ISBN 1857430638. Pontic Greeks An ethnic Greek minority found in Georgia and originally concentrated in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The Pontic Greeks are ultimately descended from Greek colonists of the Caucasus region (who named the Black Sea the Pontic Sea)
^ Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul Robert; Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. ABC-CLIO. p. 337. ISBN 978-0313346422. Pontic Greeks, Genocide of. The Pontic (sometimes Pontian) Greek genocide is the term applied to the massacres and deportations perpetuated against ethnic Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the Young Turk government between 1914 and 1923. The name of this people derives from the Greek word pontus, meaning "sea coast," and refers to the Greek population that lived on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea, that is, in northern Turkey, for three millennia.

[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.

[Özkan,_Akdoğan_2009-2] Özkan, Akdoğan (2009). Kardeş bayramlar ve özel günler. İnkılâp. ISBN 978-975-10-2928-7. Evlerin bolluk ve bereketi şu veya bu sebeple kaçmışsa, özellikle Rumların yoğun olarak yaşadığı Orta ve Kuzey Anadolu'da bunun sebebinin karakoncolos isimli iblis olduğu düşünülürmüş. Kapadokyalı Rumlar yeni yılın başında sırf ...

[Day,_Alan_John_2002_454-3] Alan John Day; Roger East; Richard Thomas (2002). A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. p. 454. ISBN 1857430638. Pontic Greeks An ethnic Greek minority found in Georgia and originally concentrated in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The Pontic Greeks are ultimately descended from Greek colonists of the Caucasus region (who named the Black Sea the Pontic Sea)

[Totten,_Samuel;_Bartrop,_Paul_Robert;_Jacobs,_Steven_L._2008_337-4] Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul Robert; Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. ABC-CLIO. p. 337. ISBN 978-0313346422. Pontic Greeks, Genocide of. The Pontic (sometimes Pontian) Greek genocide is the term applied to the massacres and deportations perpetuated against ethnic Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the Young Turk government between 1914 and 1923. The name of this people derives from the Greek word pontus, meaning "sea coast," and refers to the Greek population that lived on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea, that is, in northern Turkey, for three millennia.

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