Re: [tied] Re: Greek in Caucasus

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From: Daniel J. Milton

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:36 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Greek in Caucasus

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Petusek" <petusek@......> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> Looking at this map
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/ethnocaucasus.jpg, I was
> surprised to learn that there are places in Georgia and Armenia,
where Greek
> is spoken. Could somebody give me some information on the
dialect(s)(?),
> please? Thanks in advance.
>
> Pet'usek
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For Georgia, I find at
http://www.forcedmigration.org/guides/fmo001/fmo001-2.htm
   "Greeks live mostly in south-eastern Georgia, in large cities,
around the Black Sea coast in western Georgia, mainly in Abkhazia and
Ajaria. The Greeks emigrated to Georgia in the nineteenth century from
Anatolia and other parts of Turkey. Greeks are mainly Orthodox
Christians, and many are currently emigrating to Greece."
     I had a vague idea they mostly came even later, during the
post-WWI troubles in Turkey.   In any case, they're not preserving a
Caucasian Greek dialect of any antiquity.
Dan Milton

 

I see. Thank you, Dan.

 

Pet'usek