Micrasiates
The Micrasiates are the Greek and the nonGreek orthodoxe Christians (originating) of Asia Mineure (in Greek Mikra Asia), among which the spoken languages are the Greek , the Pontique (200.000 speakers in Greece about 2001) and the Cappadocien (of which there remain speakers in Greece, redécouverts in May 2005), but also the Turkish (e.a. Karamanli, Turkish written in Greek characters), the Laze, the Géorgien or even the Arab (these languages were still present at the time of the census of 1951).
The term, also used as adjective, more particularly indicates the hundreds of thousands (between 600.000 and 1,5 million) of Greek refugees (within the meaning of orthodoxe Greek Christians, the millet rum ) of Anatolia expelled of the Turkey towards the Greece following the defeat of the Greek armies by that of Mustafa Kemal in 1922 (the Grande Catastrophe) and then of the Traité of Lausanne of 1923, and their descendants.
The music Rebetiko was born in the coffees attended by these Micrasiates, at the end of the 19th century initially, and especially as from the years 1920.
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