Cappadocian Greeks  

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Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia, roughly the Nevşehir Province and surrounding provinces of modern Turkey. The Cappadocian Greeks traditionally spoke the Cappadocian Greek language, however after centuries of Ottoman rule there were many bilingual Cappadocian Greeks such as the “Kouvoukliotes” who were always Greek speakers and spoke Turkish with a strong Greek accent, and there were Cappadocian Greeks who only spoke the Turkish language and had given up the use of Greek centuries earlier, known as the Karamanlides. These Greeks had been living in Cappadocia since antiquity and following the Greek-Turkish population exchange of the 1920s a majority of the Cappadocian Greeks were relocated into the borders of modern Greece. Today their descendants can be found throughout Greece and the Greek diaspora worldwide.

See also

• Pontic Greeks
• Cappadocia
• Greek genocide
• Greek Muslims