Asia Minor of Aegean

Greeks in Turkey lived in their historic homeland, Asia Minor, where ancient Greek cities flourished until Hellenistic times. Much later, Asia Minor was conquered by Turkish tribes, who moved there from Central Asia. The Greeks remained in these territories until the early 20th century, when the Kemalists seized power of the Ottoman state. The Seven Churches, the seven wolves of Greek Christian civilization, were wiped out. The Greeks of Asia Minor held “Thermopylae”, until the great disaster, which hit not only Hellenism, but also global culture, after the Greeks were ripped out, not only from their homes, but also from a region that thousands of years ago, the Greek element was intense and marked with high ideas, his ideals and lifestyle, all of humanity.. Written sources, but mostly archaeological monuments of the region, which have survived to this day, from the hordes of the "barbarians," testify to the truth. They have a Greek stamp and Greek letters. From Aeolia to Lycia and Cilicia, from Bithynia to Paphlagonia and Cappadocia and from Karia and Ionia to Lydia, Mysia, Pisidia and Pamphilia, the Greek element was culturally dominant..