> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:03 PM
> Subject: CHAT Anatolian groups (was Re: question - Turco-Japanese)
>
>
> > On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 09:29 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> >
> > > Roger Mills wrote:
> > >
> > >> Something that has always intrigued me about Anatolia-- what happened
> to
> > >> all
> > >> the Greek- (and perhaps other-)speaking people who were there before
> the
> > >> Turks came? Did their languages have no effect on Turkish??Only the
> > >> Armenians seem to have survived.
> > >
> > > They probably converted to Islam and hence to Turkish.
> >
> > No. As Rodlox correctly observes.....
> >
> > On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 08:29 , Rodlox wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Cappadocia (central) and Pontus (north coast) regions of Anatolia
had
> > > sizable Greek Orthodox populations throughout the Ottoman era (and
> Seljuk
> >
> > Yep - right up till the 19th century/early 20th cent. The de-hellenizing
> > of Anatolia was not completed till the upheavals & 'ethnic cleansing'
> > following WW1.
>
> please see my recent post (_request_).
>
> > As I have observed elsewhere, AFAIK the last of the Greeks
> > were expelled from the Smyrna region in 1922.
>
> but not all Greeks left Asia Minor (just like not all Turks left
> Thrace)....and it wasn't so much an expulsion as an exchange of
populations
> between two countries.
>
>
>