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Minorities in Greece are small in size compared to Balkan regional standards, and the country is largely ethnically homogeneous. [1] This is mainly due to the population exchanges between Greece and neighboring Turkey (Convention of Lausanne) and Bulgaria (Treaty of Neuilly), which removed most Muslims (with the exception of the Muslims of Western Thrace) and those Christian Slavs who did not ...
During the next decades, the population of Greece continued to increase, except during a large part of 1940s due to World War II and subsequent events. After 1940s the population of Greece continued to grow, though on a decreased pace after 1960s, due to a gradual decrease in fertility and emigration to various countries, such as West Germany ...
العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български
A number of African immigrants first arrived in Greece in 1997, though most came during the 2000s. The majority immigrated from Nigeria and Senegal; others came from the Congo, Ghana, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius and Angola. The largest communities live in the Patissia and Kypseli districts of Athens. [4]
The Greek government's reason to settle the refugees in this region was to strengthen the Greek presence in the newly acquired provinces and the homogenization of the population. [16] The Greek government especially resettled the refugees in Komotini, Xanthi and Sapes regions where the majority of Muslim Turks lived. [16]
Proportionally few live in Italy despite former colonial ties, most live in the Nordic countries. Sub-Saharan Africans (many ethnicities including Afro-Caribbeans , African-Americans , Afro-Latinos and others by descent): approximately 5 million in 2007, mostly in the UK and France, with smaller numbers in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain ...
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For the Greeks, even today, ethnicity has greater significance than for many other peoples. [1] [2] [3] After all, during the three century long Islamic-Ottoman occupation, the Greeks managed to preserve their culture, Greek Orthodox faith, language and identity unharmed; and from 1821 onwards, they were able to re-establish their own sovereign state with an intact ethnicity.