National Geographic, who were the Christian settlers coming to Aegean Macedonia, 1925

[Daskalot]

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Taken from the November issue of National Geographic year 1925. The name of the article is "History's Greatest Trek: Tragedy Stalks Through the Near East as Greece and Turkey Exchange Two Million of Their People" By Melville Chater.

[Royal Hellas]

The population exchanges were a good idea.
The eastern Hellenes came back to their mother land and the Turks went back to Muslim Turkiye.

[makedonin]

Originally Posted by Royal Hellas

The population exchanges were a good idea.
The eastern Hellenes came back to their mother land and the Turks went back to Muslim Turkiye.

It seems that for this so called Hellenes the general meassure of being Hellene did not count!

They did not speak any Greek

you will argue day and night that some Ancient Macedonians "spoke" Greek and that's why they must have been Greeks, you will point out that they "had Greek Names" and that makes them Greek, but than again you fail to require the same thing from the Turk Christian Prosfigas. How many of them had siposedly Greek Names?

At last you will argue day and night that this same Prosfigas are Makedonas, the proud anscestors of the Ancient Macedonians, even though they are in Macedonia for less than a Century.

That's called double Standards, typical "Greek"

[Royal Hellas]

These eastern Hellenes were ethnic Greeks. What is so hard to comprehend?

[Daskalot]

Originally Posted by Royal Hellas

These eastern Hellenes were ethnic Greeks. What is so hard to comprehend?

Ethnic Greek you say, what is that? What was their connection to Greece other than their religious affiliation, they belonged to the Patriarch church. Please tell me, would you like to share a poem or two written by the Karamanlides of Cappadocia.... please.

[makedonin]

Originally Posted by Royal Hellas

These eastern Hellenes were ethnic Greeks. What is so hard to comprehend?

How comes this "Ethnic Greeks" had to learn Greek, the very foundation of your Greekness?

[Risto the Great]

Originally Posted by Royal Hellas

These eastern Hellenes were ethnic Greeks. What is so hard to comprehend?

Being Greek is a modern national construct.
The eastern hellenes you describe pre-date the modern Greek and in fact were another nation waiting to happen. Why are you so eager to bunch all ethnicities? Are Cypriots ethnic Greeks also?

[Royal Hellas]

They were a vital segment in rebuilding Greece after the Ottoman experience.
The Cypriots are ethnic Greeks of course, not to be confused with the Turkish Cypriots, ok?

[makedonin]

Originally Posted by Royal Hellas

They were a vital segment in rebuilding Greece after the Ottoman experience.
The Cypriots are ethnic Greeks of course, not to be confused with the Turkish Cypriots, ok?

all good, but don't avoid the question:

Originally Posted by Royal Hellas

These eastern Hellenes were ethnic Greeks. What is so hard to comprehend?

How comes this "Ethnic Greeks" had to learn Greek, the very foundation of your Greekness?

[Royal Hellas]

Because they were exposed to Turkish culture,similar to an ethnic Greek being raised in America, the first language is not Greek but American. Still an ethnic Greek though, "Greek by genus" as the Greek government says.