Asia Minor Greeks

Asia Minor Greeks
Μικρασιάτες
	Asia Minor Greeks are using the Greek Orthodox flag
	Mikrasiates Teachers and Graduates from the Evangelical School of Smyrna
Regions with significant populations
	Historically Asia Minor, present day Greece
Languages
	Modern Greek, English (diaspora)
Religion
	Greek Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
	Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks

The Asia Minor Greeks (Greek: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations who lived in Asia Minor from 1200s BCE as a result of Greek colonization^[1] until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, though some communities in Asia Minor survive to the present day.

^ "Anatolia - Greek colonies on the Anatolian coasts, c. 1180–547 bce". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2015-06-19. Before the Greek migrations that followed the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE), probably the only Greek-speaking communities on the west coast of Anatolia were Mycenaean settlements at Iasus and Müskebi on the Halicarnassus peninsula and walled Mycenaean colonies at Miletus and Colophon.

[1] "Anatolia - Greek colonies on the Anatolian coasts, c. 1180–547 bce". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2015-06-19. Before the Greek migrations that followed the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE), probably the only Greek-speaking communities on the west coast of Anatolia were Mycenaean settlements at Iasus and Müskebi on the Halicarnassus peninsula and walled Mycenaean colonies at Miletus and Colophon.

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