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The Greek genocide which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the Eastern Orthodox Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia which was carried out mainly during World War I and its aftermath (1914–1922) on the basis of their religion and ethnicity.
The Greek genocide is remembered in a number of modern works. Not Even My Name by Thea Halo is the story of the survival, at age ten, of her mother Sano (Themia) Halo (original name Euthemia "Themia" Barytimidou, Pontic Greek: Ευθυμία Βαρυτιμίδου), [182] [183] along the death march during the Greek genocide that annihilated ...
The percentage of Christians in Turkey, home to an historically large and influential Eastern Orthodox community, fell from 19% in 1914 to 2.5% in 1927, [20] due to genocide, [21] demographic upheavals caused by the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, [22] and the emigration of Christians to foreign countries (mostly in Europe and ...
European Eastern Orthodox Christians are predominantly present in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and they are also significantly represented in diaspora throughout the Continent. The term Eastern Orthodox Europe is informally used to describe the predominantly Eastern Orthodox countries of Belarus , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Georgia , Greece ...
The attitude of the Nestorians "who have no other king but the Arabs", he contrasted with the Greek Orthodox Church, whose emperors he said "had never cease to make war against the Arabs. [101] Between 923 and 924, several Orthodox churches were destroyed in mob violence in Ramla , Ascalon , Caesarea Maritima , and Damascus . [ 101 ]
The Pontic Greek genocide, [1] or the Pontic genocide (Greek: Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων του Πόντου), was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the indigenous Greek community in the Pontus region (the northeast of modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and its aftermath. [1] [2] [3] [4]
An official Ottoman document giving the results of the 1914 population census.The total population (sum of all millets) was 20,975,345, of which 1,792,206 were Greeks.. By the end of 1922, the vast majority of native Pontian Greeks had already fled Turkey due to the genocide against them (1914–1922), and the Ionian Greek Ottoman citizens had also fled due to the defeat of the Greek army in ...
Greek genocide (5 C, 24 P) I. Istanbul pogrom (1 C, 25 P) O. Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians"