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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 ...
Map showing the distribution of major Modern Greek dialect areas Note: Greek is the dominant language throughout Greece; inclusion in a non-Greek language zone does not necessarily imply that the relevant minority language is still spoken there, or that its speakers consider themselves an ethnic minority.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Greece" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Albanians;
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.
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Related ethnic groups African Greeks Black Greeks , also known as Afro-Greeks ( Greek : Αφροέλληνες ), [ 1 ] are Black people who are citizens or residents of Greece .
Pages in category "Greek minorities" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Caucasus Greeks; U.
The Aromanians of Greece count with the Panhellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs, a cultural organization of Aromanians. [ 11 ] [ 9 ] The Aromanian communities, who use the endonym Vlasi, in Macedonia speak Megleno-Romanian , separate from the Aromanian language .