Greek diaspora
The Greek diaspora or Hellenic diaspora, also known as Omogenia[1][2] (Greek: Ομογένεια) refers to the communities of Greek people living outside the traditional Greek homelands, but more commonly in other parts of the Balkans, in southern Russia and Ukraine, Asia Minor, the region of Pontus (Pontic Greeks), as well as Eastern Anatolia and neighbouring Georgia and the South Caucasus (see Caucasus Greeks, Greeks in Russia, and Greeks in Georgia). Members of the diaspora can be identified as those who themselves, or whose ancestors, migrated from the Greek homelands.[3]
The Greek diaspora is one of the oldest and historically most significant in the world, with an almost unbroken presence from Homeric times to present. Examples of its influence range from the instrumental role played by Greek expatriates in the emergence of the Renaissance, various liberational and nationalist movements implicated in the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, to commercial developments like the commissioning of the worlds first supertankers by shipping magnates Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos.[4]
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History
Ancient times
In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies.[5] Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.[6]
Many Greeks migrated to the new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander's wake, as far away as what are now Uzbekistan, the northern Indian subcontinent (including modern-day Pakistan),[7] and Kuwait.[8] The Hellenistic cities of Seleucia, Antioch and Alexandria were among the largest cities in the world during Hellenistic and Roman times.[9] Under the Roman Empire, movement of people spread Greeks across the Empire and in the eastern territories Greek became the lingua franca rather than Latin. The Roman Empire became Christianized in the fourth century AD, and in the late Byzantine period, practice of the Greek Orthodox form of Christianity became a defining hallmark of Greek identity.[10]
Middle Ages
In the seventh century, Emperor Heraclius adopted Medieval Greek as the official language of the Byzantine Empire. Greeks continued to live around the Levant, Mediterranean and Black Sea maintaining a Greek identity amongst local populations as traders, officials and settlers. Soon after, the Arab-Islamic Caliphate conquered the Levant, Egypt, North Africa and Sicily from the Byzantine Greeks during the Byzantine–Arab Wars. The Greek populations generally remained in these areas of the Caliphate and helped translate ancient Greek works into Arabic, thus contributing to early Islamic philosophy and science in medieval Islam, which in turn contributed to Byzantine science.
Fall of Byzantium and exodus to Italy
After the Byzantine–Ottoman Wars, which resulted in the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Ottoman Empire's conquest of Greek lands, many Greeks fled Constantinople, (what is now Istanbul) and found refuge in Italy, bringing with them many ancient Greek writings that had been lost in the West. These helped contribute to the European Renaissance. Most of these Greeks settled in Venice, Florence and Rome.
Fall of the Empire of Trebizond and exodus to Russia and Georgia
Between the fall of the Empire of Trebizond to the Ottomans in 1461 and the second Russo-Turkish War in 1828-29 many thousands of Pontic Greeks migrated or fled from the Pontic Alps and Eastern Anatolia to the southern areas of the Russian Empire, Russian occupied Georgia, and later the Russian province of Kars Oblast in the South Caucasus. Many Pontic Greeks fled their homelands in Pontus and northeastern Anatolia to settle in these areas so as to avoid Ottoman reprisals after having collaborated with Russian armies that had invaded Eastern Anatolia in several of the Russo-Turkish Wars from the late-18th to the early-20th centuries. Others resettled simply to seek new opportunities in trade, mining, and farming, or in the church, military, and state bureaucracy of the Russian Empire (see also Caucasus Greeks, Greeks in Russia, and Greeks in Georgia).[11]
Modern times
Ottoman Empire
Greeks were spread through many provinces of the Ottoman Empire and took a major role in its economic life, particularly through the Phanariots, who emerged as a class of moneyed ethnically Greek merchants (they commonly claimed noble Byzantine descent) in the latter half of the 16th century and went on to exercise great influence in the administration in the Ottoman Empire's Balkan domains in the 18th century - some of them settling in the territory of the present-day Romania and considerably influencing its political and cultural life. Other Greeks settled outside their homelands in the southern Balkans to areas further north through service in the Orthodox church or as a result of population transfers and massacres by the Ottoman authorities following Greek rebellions against Ottoman rule or suspected Greek collaboration with Russia in the many Russo-Turkish wars fought between 1774 and 1878. The areas most effected by such population upheavals lay in Greek Macedonia, where the large, indigenous Ottoman Muslim population (often including those of Greek convert descent; see Greek Muslims) could easily be used to form local militias to harass and exact revenge on the Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox population, often forcing the inhabitants of entire rural districts, particularly in the more vulnerable lowland areas, to abandon their homes.
An even more large scale movement of Greek-speaking peoples in the Ottoman period was of Pontic Greeks from northeastern Anatolia to Georgia and parts of southern Russia, particularly the province of Kars Oblast in the south Caucasus, following the short lived Russian occupation of Erzerum and the surrounding region during the 1828-29 Russo-Turkish War. An estimated one-fifth of Pontic Greeks left their homeland in the mountain uplands of northeast Anatolia in 1829 as refugees, following the Tsarist army as it withdrew back into Russian territory, since many had collaborated with or fought in the Russian army against the Muslim Ottomans as a means of regaining territory for Christian Orthodoxy. The Pontic Greek refugees who settled in Georgia and the south Caucasus assimilated with preexisting communities of Caucasus Greeks, while those who settled in the Ukraine and southern Russia came to make up a sizeable proportion of the population of cities such as Mariupol, but in general assimilated and intermarried with their fellow Christian Othodox Russians and continued to participate in further Russo-Turkish wars through service in the Tsarist army.
19th century
During and after the Greek War of Independence, Greeks of the diaspora were important in establishing the fledgling state, raising funds and awareness abroad and in several cases serving as senior officers in Russian armies that fought against the Ottomans as a means of helping liberate Greeks still living under Ottoman subjugation in Macedonia, Epirus, and Thrace. Greek merchant families already had contacts in other countries and during the disturbances many set up home around the Mediterranean (notably Marseilles in France, Livorno, Calabria and Bari in Italy and Alexandria in Egypt), Russia (Odessa and St Petersburg), and Britain (London and Liverpool) from where they traded, typically in textiles and grain. Businesses frequently comprised the whole extended family, and with them they brought schools teaching Greek and the Greek Orthodox Church.[12] As markets changed and they became more established, some families grew their operations to become shippers, financed through the local Greek community, notably with the aid of the Ralli or Vagliano Brothers. With economic success the diaspora expanded further across the Levant, North Africa, India and the USA.[13] In fact, many leaders of the Greek struggle for liberation from Ottoman Macedonia and other parts of the southern Balkans with large Greek populations still under Ottoman rule had close links with these same Greek trading and entrepreneurial families, who continued to fund the Greek liberation struggle against the Ottomans and the policy of creating a Greater Greece.
After the Treaty of Constantinople the political situation stabilised somewhat, and some of the displaced families moved back to the newly independent country to become key figures in cultural, educational and political life, especially in Athens. Finance and assistance from overseas were channelled through these family ties, and helped provide institutions such as the National Library, and sent relief after natural disasters.
20th century
In the 20th century, many Greeks left the traditional homelands for economic reasons resulting in large migrations from Greece and Cyprus to the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Armenia, Italy, Russia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and South Africa, especially after World War II (1939–45), the Greek Civil War (1946–49) and the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974.[3]
After World War I most Pontian and Anatolian Greeks living in Asia Minor, now modern-day Turkey, were victims of Muslim Turkish intolerance for Christian populations throughout the Ottoman Empire. More than 3.5 million people, including Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians were killed under the regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa Kemal around the years 1914 to 1923.[14] Greek populations living in Asia Minor fled to modern Greece, but The Russian Empire (later USSR) was also a major destination.
After the Greek Civil War many communist Greeks and their families were forced to flee to neighboring Yugoslavia and the Soviet dominated states of Eastern Europe, especially the USSR and Czechoslovakia. Hungary even founded a whole new village, Beloiannisz for Greek refugees, while a large concentration of such Greeks were resettled in the former Sudeten German region of northern Czechoslovakia centred around Krnov (Jegendorff).
Another country to admit Greeks in large numbers was Sweden, where today over 15,000 Greek-Swedish descendants live (see Greeks in Sweden). While many immigrants returned later, these countries still have numerous first and second generation Greeks who maintain their traditions.[3]
The Arab nationalism of President Nasser of Egypt led to the expulsion of a large Greek population from that country in the 1950s. Until that point Alexandria had been an important centre of Greek culture since antiquity, with the business life of the city dominated by Greeks.
With the fall of Communism in eastern Europe and the USSR, numbers of Greeks of the diaspora whose Greek ancestry was "removed" for many generations, immigrated to modern Greece's main urban centres of Athens and Thessaloniki, and also to Cyprus. Movements from Georgia were most numerous.[3]
The term Pontic Greeks is used to refer to Greek-speaking communities who originate in the Black Sea region, but particularly from the Trebizond region, Pontic Alps, Eastern Anatolia, Georgia and the former-Russian South Caucasus province of Kars Oblast (see also Greeks in Georgia, Caucasus Greeks, and Greeks in Russia). After 1919-23 most of these Pontic Greek and Caucasus Greek communities resettled in Greek Macedonia or joined other Greek communities in southern Russia and Ukraine.
Greek nationality
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Any person who is ethnically Greek born outside Greece may become a Greek citizen through naturalization, providing he/she can prove a parent or grandparent was born as a national of Greece. The Greek ancestor's birth certificate and marriage certificate are required, along with the applicant's birth certificate, and the birth certificates of all generations in between until the relation between the applicant and the person with Greek citizenship is proven.
Greek citizenship is acquired by birth by all persons born in Greece, and all persons born to at least one parent who is a registered Greek citizen. People born out of wedlock to a father that is a Greek citizen and a mother that is a non-Greek automatically gain Greek citizenship if the father recognizes them as his child before they turn 18.[15][16]
Today
Important centers of the Greek diaspora today are in New York City,[17] Boston,[18] Chicago,[19] London, Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, and Toronto.[3]
The SAE - World Council of Hellenes Abroad is a dependency of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has compiled several studies on the Greeks of the diaspora.
The total number of Greeks living outside Greece and Cyprus today is a contentious issue. Where Census figures are available it shows around 3 million Greeks outside Greece and Cyprus. Estimates provided by the Council of overseas Greeks {SAE} put the figure at around 7 million worldwide. The Greek diaspora is also very active as a lobby defending Greek interests, especially in the USA.[20] Integration, intermarriage and loss of the Greek language also influence the definition and self-definition of Greeks of the diaspora.
To learn more about how factors such as intermarriage and assimilation influence self-identification among young Greeks in the diaspora, and help clarify the estimates of Greeks in the diaspora, the Next Generation Initiative is currently conducting an academically-supervised research study that began in the United States in 2008.
Demographics
Rank | Country/territory | Official data | Estimations | Article |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | United States | 1,280,777 (2011 ACS est.)[21] | [22] | 3,000,000Greek American |
2 | Cyprus | 690,394 (2011 census, The figure gives the sum of Cypriot citizens and Greek citizens in the Republic of Cyprus)[23]
322 (2006 census, Ethnic Greeks in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)[24] |
1,150,000[25] | Greek Cypriots |
3 | Australia | 378,300 (2011 census, People that declared Greek ancestry)[26] | 700,000[27] | Greek Australians |
4 | United Kingdom | 78,872 (2011 census, The figure includes Greeks from Greece proper and Greek Cypriots, residing in England and Wales)[28] | 400,000[29] | Greek Britons |
5 | Germany | 296,307 (2011, Greek citizens)[30] | 320,000,[31] 370,000[27] | Greeks in Germany |
6 | Canada | 252,960 (2011 census)[32] | 720,000[27] | Greek Canadians |
7 | Albania | 24,243 (2011 census. Majority are Greek passport holders/migrants. Census deemed corrupt)[33] | Sources vary. Between 200,000 and 550,000 Ethnic Greeks in Albania.[34][35][36][37][38] In addition, a large number also reside in Greece, Australia and the United States.[39] | Greeks in Albania |
8 | South Africa | N/A | 50,000-60,000[40] 120,000[27][41] | Greeks in South Africa |
9 | Russia | 85,640 (2010 census)[42] | Greeks in Russia and Caucasus Greeks | |
10 | Ukraine | 91,500 (2001 census)[43] | Greeks in Ukraine | |
11 | Chile | 8,500 (2012 census) | 90,000-120,000[44] in Santiago and Antofagasta | Greeks in Chile |
12 | Brazil | N/A | 25,000[45] – 30,000[46] 50,000 in Sao Paulo[47] | Greeks in Brazil |
13 | France | 5,747 (2005, Greek citizens)[30] | 35,000[48] | Greeks in France |
14 | Argentina | 2,196 (2001, born in Greece)[49] | 35,000,[50] 50,000[51] | Greeks in Argentina |
15 | Italy | 7,250 (2011, Greek citizens)[30] | 20,000,[27] 30,000[52] | Greeks in Italy |
16 | Mexico | N/A | 25,000 [53] | Greek Mexican |
17 | Belgium | 14,799 (2011, Greek citizens)[30] | Greeks in Belgium | |
18 | Georgia | 15,166 (2002 census)[54] | Greeks in Georgia and Caucasus Greeks | |
19 | Serbia | 725 (2011 census)[55] | 15,000[56] | Greeks in Serbia |
20 | Kazakhstan | 12,703 (1999 census)[57] | Greeks in Kazakhstan | |
21 | Sweden | 4,824 (2011, Greek citizens)[30] | 12,000–15,000[58] | Greeks in Sweden |
22 | Uzbekistan | 10,453 (1989 census)[59] | 9,500 [60] | Greeks in Uzbekistan |
23 | Switzerland | 7,014 (2010, Greek citizens)[61] | 8,340,[27] 11,000[62] | Greeks in Switzerland |
24 | Romania | 6,513 (2002 census)[63] | Greeks in Romania | |
25 | Austria | 2,535 (2009, Greek citizens)[30] | 5,000 [64] | Greeks in Austria |
26 | New Zealand | N/A | 4,500,[65] 10,000[27] | Greeks in New Zealand |
27 | Netherlands | N/A | 4,000,[27] 12,500[66] | Greeks in the Netherlands |
28 | Venezuela | N/A | 3,000 (Greece-born population)[67] | Greeks in Venezuela |
29 | Egypt | N/A | 3,000,[68] 5,000[45] | Greeks in Egypt |
30 | Bulgaria | 3,408 (2001 census)[69] | 28,500[70] | Greeks in Bulgaria |
31 | Czech Republic | 3,231 (2001 census)[71] | 7,000[72] | Greeks in the Czech Republic |
32 | Moldova | N/A | 3,000[73] | Greeks in Moldova |
33 | Hungary | 3,916 (2011 census)[74] | 4,000 - 10,000[75] | Greeks in Hungary |
34 | Turkey | N/A | 2,500[76] | Greeks in Turkey and Pontic Greeks and Caucasus Greeks |
35 | India | N/A | 1,900[citation needed] | |
36 | Norway | 1,671[77] | Greeks in Norway | |
37 | Lebanon | N/A | 1,500-2,500[27][78] | Greeks in Lebanon |
38 | Denmark | 1,678[79] | Greeks in Denmark | |
39 | Oman | N/A | 1,500[27] | |
40 | Poland | 1,404 (2002 census)[citation needed] | Greeks in Poland | |
41 | Saudi Arabia | N/A | 1,300[27] | Greeks in Saudi Arabia |
42 | Luxembourg | 1,571 (2009)[80] | ||
43 | Cameroon | N/A | 1,200[27] | |
44 | Zimbabwe | N/A | 1,100[81] | Greeks in Zimbabwe |
45 | Uruguay | N/A | 1,000,[27] 2,000[82] | Greeks in Uruguay |
46 | Syria | N/A | 1,000 [27] | Greeks in Syria |
47 | Armenia | 900 (2011 census)[83] | Greeks in Armenia and Caucasus Greeks | |
48 | Panama | N/A | 800,[27] 1,000[82] | |
49 | Zambia | N/A | 800[84] | Greeks in Zambia |
50 | Kyrgyzstan | N/A | 650–700[85] | Greeks in Kyrgyzstan |
51 | Finland | N/A | 500[86] | Greeks in Finland |
52 | Ethiopia | N/A | 500[87] | Greeks in Ethiopia |
53 | Uganda | 426 (1991, Greek citizens)[88] | ||
54 | 422 (2002 census)[89] | Greeks in the Republic of Macedonia | ||
55 | Jordan | N/A | 400,[27] 600[90] | |
56 | DR Congo | N/A | 300[91] | Greeks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
57 | Spain | N/A | 300,[27] 1,500–2,000[92] | |
58 | Bahamas | N/A | 300[27] | |
59 | Nigeria | N/A | 300[93] | |
60 | Tanzania | N/A | 300[27] | |
61 | Barbados | N/A | 300[94] | |
62 | The Gambia | N/A | 300[95] | |
63 | Costa Rica | N/A | 80,[27] 290[96] | |
64 | Israel | N/A | 250 (non-Jewish Greek only)[97] | |
65 | Sudan | N/A | 250[98] | |
66 | Azerbaijan | N/A | 250–300[99] | Greeks in Azerbaijan |
67 | Lithuania | N/A | 250[100] | |
68 | Malawi | N/A | 200[101] | |
69 | Colombia | N/A | 200[27] | |
70 | Ireland | N/A | 200[27][102] | |
71 | Kenya | N/A | 200[27] | |
72 | United Arab Emirates | N/A | 200[27] | |
73 | Morocco | N/A | 180[27] | |
74 | Peru | N/A | 150,[27] 350[103] | |
75 | Portugal | N/A | 150,[27] 240[104] | |
76 | Botswana | N/A | 150[27] | |
77 | Djibouti | N/A | 150[27] | |
78 | Estonia | 150 (2001 census)[105] | ||
79 | Hong Kong | N/A | 150[27] | |
80 | Kuwait | N/A | 140[106] | |
81 | Latvia | 289 (2011 census)[107] | 100[108] | |
82 | Japan | N/A | 100,[27] 300[109] | |
83 | Bolivia | N/A | 100[110] | |
84 | People's Republic of China | N/A | 100[111] | |
85 | Philippines | N/A | 100[112] | |
86 | Indonesia | N/A | 72[113] | |
87 | Papua New Guinea | N/A | 70[27] | |
88 | Iran | N/A | 60,[27] 80[114] | |
89 | Ivory Coast | N/A | 60[27] | |
90 | Madagascar | N/A | 60[27] | |
91 | Slovenia | 54 (2002 census)[115] | ||
92 | Croatia | N/A | 50[116] | |
93 | Tunisia | N/A | 50[27] | |
94 | Senegal | N/A | 50[27] | |
95 | Thailand | N/A | 50[117] | |
96 | Central African Republic | N/A | 40[27] | |
97 | Qatar | N/A | 40[27] | |
98 | Singapore | N/A | 40[118] | |
99 | Malta | N/A | 500[119] | Greeks in Malta |
100 | Cuba | N/A | 30[27] | |
101 | Algeria | N/A | 30[27] | |
102 | Eritrea | N/A | 30[27] | |
103 | Slovakia | N/A | 100[120] | |
104 | Paraguay | N/A | 20,[27] 25[118] | |
105 | Chad | N/A | 20[27] | |
106 | Ecuador | N/A | 3000[27] | |
107 | Guatemala | N/A | 20[27] | |
108 | Mozambique | N/A | 20[27] | |
109 | Namibia | N/A | 20[27] | |
110 | Togo | N/A | 20[27] | |
111 | Taiwan | N/A | 20[27] | |
112 | Republic of the Congo | N/A | 10[27] | |
113 | Belarus | N/A | unknown – for further information, see [2] | |
114 | Dominican Republic | N/A | 14[121] | |
115 | Vietnam | N/A | 10[122] |
Notable Greeks of the diaspora
Notable people of the Greek diaspora (including also of Greek ancestry):
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- Spiro Agnew
- Achilles Alferaki
- Nikos Aliagas
- Leo Allatius
- Constantine Andreou
- The Andrews Sisters
- Criss Angel
- Steve Angello
- Jennifer Aniston
- John Aniston
- E. M. Antoniadi
- George Averoff
- Kostas Axelos
- Marco Basaiti
- Dave Bautista
- Antonis Benakis
- Emmanouil Benakis
- George Bizos
- Charles Denis Bourbaki
- Maria Callas
- Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi
- Constantin Carathéodory
- John Cassavetes
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Constantine Cavafy
- Kim Cesarion
- Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
- Chris Chelios
- André Chénier
- Joseph Chénier
- Kelly Clarkson
- Constantine II of Greece
- George Coulouris
- Georges Corraface
- George P. Cosmatos
- Jamie Dimon
- Jacques Damala
- Mickey Dee
- Michael Dertouzos
- Michael Dukakis
- Chris Diamantopoulos
- Olympia Dukakis
- Tina Fey
- Patricia Field
- Thomas Flanginis
- Mario Frangoulis
- Nicholas Gage
- Zach Galifianakis
- Nick Galis
- Costa-Gavras
- George of Trebizond
- Nick Giannopoulos
- Alexi Giannoulias
- Bret Hart
- Lafcadio Hearn
- José Holebas
- Arianna Huffington
- John Iliopoulos
- Isidore of Kiev
- Sir Alec Issigonis
- Hugh Jackman
- Theodor Kallifatides
- Andreas Kalvos
- Melina Kanakaredes
- Tina Kandelaki
- Ioannis Kapodistrias
- Alex Kapranos
- Herbert von Karajan
- Andreas Katsulas
- Elia Kazan
- Vladimir Kokkinaki
- Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Adamantios Korais
- Elias Koteas
- Jannis Kounellis
- Nick Kyrgios
- Alexi Lalas
- Vicky Leandros
- Tommy Lee
- Francisco Leontaritis
- Marina Diamandis
- Maximus the Greek
- Maria Menounos
- Enrique Metinides
- Bartolomé Mitre
- Jean Moréas
- Nana Mouskouri
- Marcus Musurus
- Nicholas Negroponte
- John Negroponte
- Alexandros Pallis
- Georgios Papanikolaou
- Alexander Payne
- George Peponis
- Mark Philippoussis
- Joseph Pilates
- Leontius Pilatus
- Basil Poledouris
- Nicos Poulantzas
- Ange Postecoglou
- Alex Proyas
- Théodore Ralli
- Michel Emmanuel Rodocanachi
- Athina Onassis Roussel
- Demis Roussos
- Pete Sampras
- Viktor Sarianidi
- Telly Savalas
- Joseph Sifakis
- Marina Sirtis
- Nikolaos Skoufas
- Spyros Skouras
- Olympia Snowe
- Queen Sophia of Spain
- Dimitri Soudas
- Trish Stratus
- John Stamos
- Theodoros Stamos
- George Stephanopoulos
- Demetrio Stratos
- Patrick Tatopoulos
- Theophanes the Greek
- Jake Tsakalidis
- Athanasios Tsakalov
- Emmanuel Tzanes
- El Greco
- Panayis Athanase Vagliano
- Vangelis
- Obdulio Varela
- Nia Vardalos
- Ioannis Varvakis
- John Varvatos
- Antonio Vassilacchi
- Gregory Vlastos
- Emmanuil Xanthos
- Iannis Xenakis
- Yanni
- Fyodor Yurchikhin
- Billy Zane
- Evangelos Zappas
- Konstantinos Zappas
- Christian Zervos
See also
- Antiochian Greeks
- Cappadocian Greek
- Caucasus Greeks
- Chian diaspora
- Church of Greece
- Cypriot Orthodox Church
- Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
- Grecheskaya Operatsiya
- Greek Australian
- Greek American
- Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
- Greek Canadians
- Greek colonies
- Greek Muslims
- Greek Mexican
- Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
- Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
- Greek-Calabrian dialect
- Greeks
- Greeks in France
- Greeks in Great Britain
- Greeks in New Zealand
- Greeks in the Netherlands
- Griko language
- Griko people
- Hellenistic civilization
- List of Greek Americans
- Magna Graecia
- Orthodox Church in America
- Pontic Greeks
- SAE - World Council of Hellenes Abroad
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- ↑ Germany: Greek population in Germany
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- ↑ Albanian census 2011
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- ↑ http://www.minorityrights.org/1400/albania/greeks.html
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- ↑ State Statistics Committee of Ukraine: 2001 census
- ↑ (Spanish) Embajada Griega en Chile.
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 Γενικα Στοιχεια Διασπορασ Archived July 16, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Brazil: The Greek Community
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(click on "Estatísticas Gerais: Imigrantes e Descendentes")
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: France: The Greek Community
- ↑ (Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC): Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2001: País de nacimiento. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ↑ ONI: Colectividad Griega (Spanish)
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Argentina: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Italy: The Greek Community
- ↑ Comunidad Helenica de Mexico: The Greek side of Mexico
- ↑ Eurominority: Greeks in Georgia
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- ↑ Glas Javnosti: Nama su samo Srbi braća
- ↑ Japan External Trade Organization: Institute of Developing Economies: Ethnodemographic situation in Kazakhstan
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Sweden: The Greek Community
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- ↑ Central Asia – Caucasus analyst: Greeks in Uzbekistan
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- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Switzerland: The Greek Community
- ↑ ClubAfaceri: 2002 (Romanian) census
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Austria: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: New Zealand: The Greek Community
- ↑ According to the Netherlands Statistical Service, quoted by: Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Netherlands: The Greek Community Archived July 15, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Venezuela: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Egypt: The Greek Community
- ↑ Republic of Bulgaria: National Statistical Institute: 2001 census
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Bulgaria: The Greek Community
- ↑ Office of the Czech Republic Government: Report on the Situation of National Minorities in the Czech Republic in 2001
- ↑ According to the Association of Greek Communities in the Czech Republic quoted by the Office of the Czech Republic Government: Report on the Situation of National Minorities in the Czech Republic in 2001
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Moldova
- ↑ Hungarian Central Statistical Office: 2011 census
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- ↑ However according to the Human Rights Watch the Greek population in Turkey is estimated at 2,500 in 2006. "From “Denying Human Rights and Ethnic Identity” series of Human Rights Watch" Human Rights Watch, 2 July 2006.
- ↑ Statistics Norway: Norway: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Lebanon
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- ↑ Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg - Etat civil et population du Luxembourg [1]
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Zimbabwe: The Greek Community
- ↑ 82.0 82.1 Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Uruguay: The Greek Community
- ↑ National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia: 2011 census
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Zambia
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Kyrgyzstan: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Finland: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Ethiopia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Census 2002
- ↑ State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia: Total population, households and dwellings according to the territorial organization of the Republic of Macedonia, 2004.
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Jordan: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Democratic Republic of Congo: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Spain: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Nigeria: The Greek Community
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Los Griegos en Costa Rica
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Israel: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Sudan: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Azerbaijan: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Lithuania: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Malawi: The Greek Community
- ↑ http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Geographic+Regions/Europe/Relationships+with+EU+Member+States/Ireland/
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Peru: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Portugal: The Greek Community
- ↑ Estonian Statistical Office: Estonia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Kuwait: The Greek Community
- ↑ Latvian Statistical Office: Latvia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Latvia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Japan: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Bolivia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China: The Greek Community
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- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Indonesia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Iran: The Greek Community
- ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia: Census of population, households and housing 2002
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Croatia: The Greek Community
- ↑ Greece-Thailand relations
- ↑ 118.0 118.1 Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Singapore: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Malta: The Greek Community
- ↑ Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Slovakia
- ↑ Dominican Republic-Greece relations
- ↑ Greek-Vietnamese relations
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