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The Asia Minor Greeks (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations who lived in Asia Minor from the 13th century BC as a result of Greek colonization, [1] up until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, though some communities in Asia Minor survive to the present day.
May 2013, Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras five-day trip to China; November 2019, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis three-day trip to China; November 2019, a three-day state visit of President of China and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping to Greece; October 2021, a visit of State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Greece [38]
The 36 Indo-Greek kings known through epigraphy or through their coins belong to the period between 180 BC to AD10–20. [2] There are a few hints of a later Indo-Greek political presence in the Indian subcontinent. Theodamas, known from an inscription on a signet, may have been an Indo-Greek ruler in the Bajaur area in the 1st century AD.
The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Greek: Ομογένεια, romanized: Omogéneia), [1] [2] are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus.. Such places historically (dating to the ancient period) include, Albania, North Macedonia, southern Russia, Ukraine, Asia Minor and Pontus (in today's Turkey), Georgia, Egypt, Sudan, southern Italy (the so-called "Magna ...
The Byzantine Greeks were the Greek-speaking Eastern Romans throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. [1] They were the main inhabitants of the lands of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), of Constantinople and Asia Minor (modern Turkey), the Greek islands, Cyprus, and portions of the southern Balkans, and formed large minorities, or pluralities, in the coastal urban centres of ...
Sohn Kee-chung's ancient Greek helmet. The Greek newspaper "Vradyni" (Βραδυνή) decided to give a 6th century B.C. corinthian helmet which was discovered in Ancient Olympia to the winner of the Marathon race of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The winner was the Korean runner Sohn Kee-chung.
For the first half of the twentieth century, immigration mostly flowed outwards from Greece. At the turn of the century, the majority of Greek immigrants migrated to the United States; from the 1950s to the 1970s, migration flowed towards other European countries, mainly the Federal Republic of Germany, where there was a labor shortage in the rebuilding process after the second world war.
Category: Asian people of Greek descent. 5 languages. ... Saudi Arabian people of Greek descent (2 P) Singaporean people of Greek descent (1 C, 1 P)