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Far more significant in increasing the Greek presence in Georgia was the settlement there of Pontic Greeks and Eastern Anatolia Greeks.Large-scale Pontic Greek settlement in Georgia followed the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461, when Greek refugees from the eastern Black Sea coastal districts, the Pontic Alps, and then Eastern Anatolia fled or migrated to neighbouring ...
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
The Greek Middle Ages are coterminous with the duration of the Byzantine Empire (330–1453). [citation needed]After 395 the Roman Empire split in two. In the East, Greeks were the predominant national group and their language was the lingua franca of the region.
In order to provide equal opportunity for every citizen of Georgia to receive higher education, the students can choose to pass national examination in general skills in Russian, English, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Ossetian or Abkhaz language. After this, if they pass the general skills tests, the students go through the state-funded special ...
The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3515073028. Isaac, Benjamin H. (1997). The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest. Studies of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol 10. Brill Academic Pub. ISBN 978-9004069213. Treister, M Yu (1997). The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek ...
Many Greek-founded colonies are well known cities to this day. Sinope and Trabzon (Greek: Τραπεζοῦς Trapezous), were founded by Milesian traders (756 BC) as well as Samsun, Rize and Amasra. Greek was the lingua franca of Anatolia from the conquests of Alexander the Great up to the invasion of the Seljuk Turks in the eleventh century AD.
Preclassical Age regions of Anatolia/Asia Minor with main settlements. Classical regions of Asia Minor/Anatolia Regions of Asia Minor/Anatolia, c. 500 BC. Aegean Greek settlements italicised. This is a list of peoples who inhabited Anatolia in antiquity.
Greece also recognizes the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a part of Georgia. There were Greek colonies in present-day Georgia during ancient history . There are between 15,000 and 25,000 Pontic Greeks in Georgia, although there are significantly fewer than there had been until the early 1990s, when many Georgian Greeks ...