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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.
The territorial expansion of Greece, 1832–1947. The Megali Idea (Greek: Μεγάλη Ιδέα, romanized: Megáli Idéa, lit. 'Great Idea') [1] is a nationalist [2][3] and irredentist concept that expresses the goal of reviving the Byzantine Empire, [4] by establishing a Greek state, which would include the large Greek populations that were ...
The Republic of Pontus (Greek: Δημοκρατία του Πόντου, romanized: Dimokratía tou Póntou) was a proposed Pontic Greek state on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Its territory would have encompassed much of historical Pontus and today forms part of Turkey's Black Sea Region.
The Dodecanese (UK: / ˌ d oʊ d ɪ k ə ˈ n iː z /, US: / d oʊ ˌ d ɛ k ə ˈ n iː z /; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa [ðoðeˈkanisa], lit. ' twelve islands '; Turkish: On İki Ada) are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited.
Yauna. Roman province. Asia. Ionia (/ aɪˈoʊniə / eye-OH-nee-ə) [1] was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements [citation needed].
The Aegean Islands[ a ][ 1 ] are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast. The ancient Greek name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago (ἀρχιπέλαγος, archipelagos), was ...
Reverted to version as of 23:23, 10 November 2015 (UTC) A version of this map without disputed regions already exists as File:Blank map of Europe 2.svg: 18:44, 26 October 2016: 680 × 520 (731 KB) Giorgi Balakhadze: fix: 18:43, 26 October 2016: 680 × 520 (732 KB) Giorgi Balakhadze: Rv in accordance to COM:OVERWRITE.
Greece, [ a ] officially the Hellenic Republic, [ b ] is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and ...