"Oh dear, only God knows what we went through. In our homeland, the Turks called us infidels, and when we came here they called us Turkish seeds!". With these words, a Cappadocian refugee captures the atmosphere encountered by Turkish-speaking Asia Minor Greeks coming to Greece.
How smooth was the social integration of these refugees into Greek reality? What was the reception they received from the locals? What caused the denial and suspicion that the refugees from the East encountered from the natives? What role did language play and what was the significance of religion in shaping national consciousness? These are the main questions answered in Maximus Harakopoulos' study.
Ninety-two years after the rupture that brought about the Catastrophe of Asia Minor, the author reconstructs the historical and social parameters of the traumatic assimilation of the Cappadocian Greeks into the motherland.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Maximos CHarakopoulos
- Publisher
- Pedio
- Subtitle
- From the depths of the east to the Thessalian plain. The traumatic integration in the motherland
- Number of Pages
- 312
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Geopolitical Region
- Greece & Cyprus
- ISBN-13
- 9789605462420
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