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Distribution of Anatolian Greeks in 1910: Demotic Greek speakers in yellow, Pontic Greek in orange and Cappadocian Greek in green with individual villages indicated. [1]In the Ottoman Empire, in accordance with the Muslim dhimmi system, Greek Christians were guaranteed limited freedoms (such as the right to worship), but were treated as second-class citizens.
The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.The period of Ottoman rule in Greece, lasting from the mid-15th century until the successful Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821 and the First Hellenic Republic was proclaimed in 1822, is known in Greece as Turkocracy (Greek: Τουρκοκρατία, Tourkokratia, "Turkish ...
Greeks who were born in or were active within the Ottoman Empire (1300-1923). See also the categories People from the Ottoman Empire of Greek descent and Greeks in Turkey Subcategories
Ottoman sultans born to Greek mothers (6 P) Pages in category "People from the Ottoman Empire of Greek descent" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.
The history of the Greek people is closely associated with the history of Greece, Cyprus, Southern Italy, Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Black Sea. During the Ottoman rule of Greece, a number of Greek enclaves around the Mediterranean were cut off from the core, notably in Southern Italy, the Caucasus, Syria and Egypt.
The Greeks of Constantinople constituted the largest Greek urban population in the Eastern Mediterranean. [28] In the first half of 1914, the Ottoman authorities expelled more than 100,000 Ottoman Greeks to Greece. [29] 1914 document showing the official figures from the 1914 population census of the Ottoman Empire.
According to the Greek census of 1928, 1,104,216 Ottoman Greeks had reached Greece. [134] It is impossible to know exactly how many Greek inhabitants of Turkey died between 1914 and 1923, and how many ethnic Greeks of Anatolia were expelled to Greece or fled to the Soviet Union . [ 135 ]