Tragedy Stalks Through the Near East as Greece and Turkey Exchange Two Million of their People, in The National Geographic Magazine. Volume XLVIII, No. 7-12, July- December, 1925.

And now these ppl will claim 'GREEK-MACEDONIAN' descent?



"Minorities in Greece" by Richard Clogg, 2002, page 129.
The core of the refugee population settled in Attica and Macedonia. The official refugee population per region in 1928 was as follows (number of refugees and percent of the refugee population):
Macedonia: 638,253 52.2% (with 270,000 in Thessaloniki alone)
306193 25.1% Greece West. Thraki 107607 8.8% Eastern Islands. Aegean Thessaly 56613 4.6% 34659 2.8% 33900 2.8% Crete Peloponnisos Epirus 28362 2.3% 8179 0.7% 4782 0.4% Cyclades islands Ionian 3301 0.3%
Total 1.221.849 100%
It is impossible in Greece to quantify their number, but obviously, they are much more numerous in this country than are in Turkey. Greece recognizes only religious and nonethnic minorities.
Thus, the Albanians, the Macedonians and the Turks that are Christian Orthodox, do not appear in official statistics, which are not reliable in any event. However, despite the ethnic mixing that has occurred since the population exchanges at the beginning of the 20th century, one can estimate that nearly 800 000 are Karamanites in Greece, a geat portin of which has been hellenised. In fact, a former president of the Greek republic, was a Karamanite.
As the Bishop of Florina (Lerin) Augostinos Kandiotis once said:
"If the hundreds of thousands of refugees had not come to Greece, Greek Macedonia would not exist today."

And now these ppl will claim 'GREEK-MACEDONIAN' descent?



"Minorities in Greece" by Richard Clogg, 2002, page 129.
The core of the refugee population settled in Attica and Macedonia. The official refugee population per region in 1928 was as follows (number of refugees and percent of the refugee population):
Macedonia: 638,253 52.2% (with 270,000 in Thessaloniki alone)
306193 25.1% Greece West. Thraki 107607 8.8% Eastern Islands. Aegean Thessaly 56613 4.6% 34659 2.8% 33900 2.8% Crete Peloponnisos Epirus 28362 2.3% 8179 0.7% 4782 0.4% Cyclades islands Ionian 3301 0.3%
Total 1.221.849 100%
It is impossible in Greece to quantify their number, but obviously, they are much more numerous in this country than are in Turkey. Greece recognizes only religious and nonethnic minorities.
Thus, the Albanians, the Macedonians and the Turks that are Christian Orthodox, do not appear in official statistics, which are not reliable in any event. However, despite the ethnic mixing that has occurred since the population exchanges at the beginning of the 20th century, one can estimate that nearly 800 000 are Karamanites in Greece, a geat portin of which has been hellenised. In fact, a former president of the Greek republic, was a Karamanite.
As the Bishop of Florina (Lerin) Augostinos Kandiotis once said:
"If the hundreds of thousands of refugees had not come to Greece, Greek Macedonia would not exist today."
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