Greek Diaspora

Greek Diaspora

Ioanna Laliotou

Melvin Ember

Carol R. Ember

Ian Skoggard

Springer US

2005

©2005 Springer-Verlag US

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Ioanna Laliotou

Melvin Ember

Carol R. Ember

Ian Skoggard

Book Section

978-0-306-48321-9, 978-0-387-29904-4

Why and When a Greek Diaspora?In 1923, a year after the defeat of the Greek army in Asia Minor caused the violent expatriation of several hundred thousand Greeks and the considerable geopolitical shrinkage of Hellenism, the prominent historian and professor at the National University in Athens, Konstantinos Amantos, attributed the diasporic desires and history of the Greek people to the Aegean Sea. He noted that, The Aegean Sea gave Hellenism a certain orientation ..., the easiness of transportation through the sea resulted in the dispersion and final disappearance of millions of Greeks ... and most important it did not encourage any expansion towards the interior of the Balkan Peninsula. No other people adjusted biologically to the Aegean [but the Greeks]. (Amantos, 1923, pp. 345–346)The history of the movement of Greek populations starts from Antiquity and continues until the present. Modem historiography has associated the notion of the Greek diaspora m ...

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Encyclopedia of Diasporas

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