Originally posted by Phoenix
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The Christians that arrived in the Macedonian lands were not Turks. Muslim/Turks were the ones that left to Turkey and their indigenousness in Macedonia is questionable (They represent both Turkish invasion and local Islamization and the mix of them).
Originally posted by Solun
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At the moment, Thessaloniki (as a unified metropolitan area) has a population that marginally exceeds 1M. Thus, it is in the peak of its’ history and has 6,6 times the population of 1912. It attracts people from everywhere, mostly North Greece. The people that come from refugees may be around 30-40%, mixed with non-refugees of course. For instance, 1/4th of my ancestry came with population exchange even though they had lived in Thessaloniki before and had left back to Asia Minor after the Big Fire.
Finding the mother-language of your grandparents does not need a special investigation. Everybody knows it already.
We don’t have Arvanites here but I have met several people of full or partial Cappadocian, Vlach, Slavic, Bulgarian ancestry. The largest community is (hands-down) the Pontic people and I have lived and grown up in areas of the city that started as refugee settlements, so I’m familiar with all the above people.
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