The Greek colonization of Macedonia since 1913!

[Daskalot]

Let us all add the information we have available about the Greek colonization of Aegean Macedonia since 1913.

Here are some maps related to the largest influx of colonizers, the Christian Refugees from Turkey that arrived on Macedonian soil for the first time in 1923. They were what Greece needed to make Aegean Macedonia Greek. Today their descendants form the bulk of the 2.5 million national Greeks that live in Aegean Macedonia.


Source: “Crossing the Aegean: The Consequences of the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange” by Renee Hirschon, 2003, page 181.


Source: League of Nations, Economic and Financial. 1926. II. 32. (Geneva: 1926)


Source: “A Concise History of Greece” by Richard Clogg, 1992, page 105.

Please add all relevant information to this topic.
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[Risto the Great]

I am concerned that we would be including many people who are not ethnically Greek. What do we mean by Greeks? Should we define this first?

[Pelister]

Colonization of the Macedonian "space".

We have physical removal of Macedonians by murder.

Wasn't the purpose of this demographic thrust of Turkish speaking Christians to water down the Macedonian ethnic block ?

We have the physical removal of cultural signs.

Only after it has been Hellenized, to the New Greeks make a grab for the name.

[Daskalot]

I am concerned that we would be including many people who are not ethnically Greek. What do we mean by Greeks? Should we define this first?

For now it is enough to present the national Greeks, we can later define who and where they originally came from.

[TrueMacedonian]

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1559

According to Arthur Bullard Macedonia was colonized by modern "greece", Serbia, and especially Bulgaria. In his own words on page 257 The country has been colonized Indeed it was colonized.

[TrueMacedonian]

The nation and its ruins by Yannis Hamilakis

[The LION will ROAR]

Here is another Reference MAP of the exchange program

[The LION will ROAR]

Here is an interesting map showing the area which is inhabited by ethnic Macedonians, the map is from the Greek Civil war.

Please notice the thick black line, which according to the legend corresponds to the ETHNIC BORDER OF THE MACEDONIANS.

Source: The map was published in the Yugoslav newspaper Borba, August 26th 1946.

[The LION will ROAR]

Map of Aegean Macedonia showing the areas where Macedonians live

http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/MacedonianMinorities/MapMacedoniansinGreece.html

Compiled and submitted to the European Parliament by the Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia in Greece
On July 6, 2000 in its 310th edition, the Macedonian weekly magazine Macedonian Sun (Makedonsko Sontse), under the title "Where are the Macedonians?", published on its front page the map of Aegean Macedonia which became part of Northern Greece after the partition of Macedonia in 1913. The map depicts the areas where the ethnic Macedonians today live in Greece. It was compiled by the Macedonians in Greece and submitted to the European Parliament. In the cities, towns, and villages in the yellow areas, the Macedonians make up 100% of the population, while in the red are marked the areas where they make between 50 and 100%. The rest of the uncolored areas, the Macedonians are minority among the Greeks with less then 50% of the population.

Taking in consideration this map made by the Macedonians of Greece, we put the data of the approximate area and marked with red where the Macedonians make a majority in Aegean Macedonia (50% to 100%) and where they make minority we used red stripes while in the same time representing the Greeks with blue stripes.

One can easily see that the Macedonians make up majority in the northern half of Aegean Macedonia, bordering the Republic of Macedonia and the Pirin part of Macedonia in Bulgaria where Macedonians also live. In the other southern half of Aegean Macedonia the Macedonians are minority. The population of Aegean Macedonia is about 2,000,000 which would result that the Macedonian minority in Greece numbers about 1,000,000 people.
The Greek government claims that in Greece live 98% Greeks and that there is not one national minority in the country. These claims are clearly an exaggeration as every country in Europe has national minorities. Therefore Human Rights Watch was correct when after visiting Aegean Macedonia concluded that the "large Macedonian minority" in Greece is under daily oppression, and urged Greece to end its discrimination.

[Daskalot]

Thank you Tm and TLwR for your great contributions in this thread!

[Daskalot]

I have seen this map before, but never in any useful resolution, does anyone have it in a larger scan?

Do we have someone collecting Makedonsko Sonce on the forum that could scan/photograph the above page and its article?

[Daskalot]

Here is a map depicting where the Christians in Turkey lived, most of them were later deported and settled en masse in the part of Macedonia which Greece annexed since the Balkan Wars.

The Ottoman Empire archive document regarding the official census of 1914, first column "musulman" (Muslims), second "grecs" (Christian adherents to the Greek Patriarchate of Istanbul), third "arménien" (Christian adherents to the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul). The census is divided according to religious affiliation in regards to the Ottoman Millet system.


Source: The Republic of Turkey, Ottoman Archives. The document is published in electronic form as "Arsiv_Belgeleriyle_Ermeni_Faaliyetleri_Cilt_1.pdf " also the values are presented in the Stanford Jay Shaw, Ezel Kural Shaw "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey" Cambridge University page 239-241

[Daskalot]

Here are the statistics of the Greek colonization of the annexed part of Macedonia.
I will begin with the Lerin(Florina) and Voden(Edessa) regions.

If someone notes any mistakes in the names of the villages/towns/cities new or old, please let me know. I would like to have the correct names both new and old.

Lerin(Florina) region:

The EAP has installed 3144 refugee families / 12,353 persons in 42 villages (settlements). In 20 of these settlements, which were described as purely refugee, settled 1981 families / 7617 people. In 22 mixed villages (indigenous and refugees) settled 1163 families / 4682 people.

Voden(Edessa) region:

The EAP has installed 5949 refugee families / 23,507 persons in 72 villages (settlements). In 23 of these settlements, which were described as purely refugee, settled 2143 families / 8460 people. In 49 mixed villages (indigenous and refugees) settled 3806 families / 15,047 persons.

*EAP=Committee on Refugee Resettlement

Source: http://lithoksou.net/prosfighes.html

[Daskalot]

The resettlement of refugees in Macedonia data for each refugee settlement

The official census data on refugees for the period 1912-1924 are divided into two categories. Refugees came to Greece prior to and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe (beginning September 1922).

Note that counted as refugees and children of refugees born in Greece.

The total number of refugees in the 1928 census was 1,221,849 people (589,418 or 48.24% males and 632,431 or 51.76% females). As for the actual population of the country, which stood at 6,204,684 persons, refugees accounted for 19.68% of the total.

The refugees who came before the catastrophe in Asia Minor was 151.892 (79.601 or 52.41% males and 72,291 or 47.59% females). The refugees who came after the Asia Minor Catastrophe was 1,069,957 (47.65% or 509,817 males and 560,140 or 52.35% females). It seems to say that the refugees in the first group, men outnumber women. The opposite happens in the second category. Pre Asia Minor refugees constituted 12.43% of the refugee population.



In the country (region) of origin, the refugees had come:

From Asia Minor 626 954 (293 086 males and 333,868 females). Of these, 37,728 (19,777 males and 17,951 females) came before and 589.226 (273.309 males and 315,917 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Thrace 256 635 (126 837 males and 129 798 females). Of these, 27,057 (14,155 males and 12,902 females) came before and 229.578 (112.682 males and 116,896 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Sea 182.169 (88.271 males and 93,898 females). Of these, 17,528 (8979 males and 8549 females) came before and 164.641 (79.292 males and 85,349 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Bulgaria 49 027 (25,070 males and 23,957 females). Of these, 20,977 (10,860 males and 10,117 females) came before and 28,050 (14,210 males and 13,840 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From the Caucasus 47.091 (24.410 males and 22,681 females). Of these, 32,421 (17,003 males and 15,418 females) came before and 14 670 (7407 males and 7263 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Constantinople 38,458 (20,234 males and 18,224 females). Of these, 4019 (2449 males and 1660 females) and came before 34,349 (17,785 males and 16,564 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Russia 11.435 (6359 males and 5076 females). Of these, 5214 (2828 males and 2386 females) and came before 6221 (3531 males and 2690 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Serbia, 6057 (3004 males and 3053 females). Of these, 4611 (2.365 males and 2246 females) and came before 1446 (639 males and 807 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Albania 2498 (1438 males and 1060 females). Of these, 1600 (852 males and 748 females) came before and 898 (586 males and 312 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From the Dodecanese 738 (394 male and 344 female). Of these, 355 (188 males and 167 females) came before and 383 (206 males and 177 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Romania 722 (274 males and 448 females). Of these, 266 (127 males and 139 females) came before and 456 (147 males and 309 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Cyprus 57 (37 males and 20 females). Of these, 25 (17 males and 8 females) came before and 32 (20 males and 12 females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

From Egypt 8 (4 males and 4 females). Of these, (one male and one female) came before and seven (three males and four females) after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.



The settlement of refugees in different geographical regions of the country was based on a national planning aimed at linguistic and cultural change in composition of the population. Was preceded by religious cleansing by "voluntary"population exchanges at Neuilly (exarchikoi in Bulgaria) and the mandatory exchange of Lausanne (Muslims in Turkey). The consolidation of national morale will then take over the ideological mechanisms of the state.

This was at the national interest in the settlement of refugees from the Refugee Resettlement Committee (EAP) is shown by the numbers of refugees egkatastathenton geographically.

Of the total of 1,221,849 refugees in 1928, counted:

In Macedonia the 1,407,477 inhabitants, 638,253 refugees, or 45.18% of the population.

Thrace (not included in the compulsory exchange) of 303 171 inhabitants, 107 607 refugees and 35.49% of the population.

In Attikovoiotia (to ensure cheap labor companies in the city) of 1,024,667 people, 281,989 refugees, or 27.52% of the population.

In the rest of the country of 3,464,369 people, 194,000 refugees, or 5.59 of the population!



Of the 638 253 (49.26% or 314,423 males and 323,830 or 50.74% females) refugees who settled in Macedonia, 99,658 (52.21% or 52,031 males and 47,627 or 47.79% females) came before the Asia Minor Catastrophe and 538.595 (262.392 or 276.203 males and 48.72 and 51.28% female) came after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

The following table below appear in county and province of the refugees who settled in Macedonia before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.


In the census of 1928, Macedonia was 2.062 settlements (villages). The number of settlements by county were: Drama 196, 571 in Thessaloniki, Kavala 151, 351 in Kozani, Pella 158, 253 in Serres. Florina 213, 148 21 Halkidiki and Mount Athos.



According to details of the Committee on Refugee Resettlement (EAP) by the end of 1926, had settled in Macedonia 111 001 refugee families, with a total population of 419,662 people.

In EAP, 69,775 refugee families, with a total population of 258,967 people, have been installed in 934 settlements identified by the committee as a purely refugee.

A number of 41 226 refugee families, with a total population of 160 695 people had settled in 442 camps where there were indigenous people, so, punctuated by the committee as mixed settlements.

From the above data indicate that there were 686 settlements in Macedonia, which could be described as the period 1926-1928, as settlements with a purely indigenous population.

The outermost record data for each village, not a provincial but Settlements Office. These data, prepared by me, are centralized in the Office the following pattern:


In the following chapters present detailed information on the settlement of settlement (number of families and individuals), by colonizing the EAP office at the end of 1926.

Source: http://lithoksou.net/prosfighes.html

[TrueMacedonian]

Nice posts Daskale Let's build on topics like these for as long as we can.



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