Cappadocian Greeks
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The Cappadocian Greeks, or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; roughly the Nevşehir, Kayseri, Konya province
Cappadocian Greeks in traditional clothing, Greece
Mount Aktepe near Göreme and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Apollonius of Tyana (1st century AD), a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in Cappadocia
Medieval Byzantine fresco in a Cappadocian rock-cut church at Göreme depicting Jesus Christ with the twelve apostles
Elia Kazan
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Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential d
Cappadocian Greeks
…of the earliest literary attestations of the spoken Cappadocian vernacular. The Cappadocian Greek-American immigrant and renowned Hollywood director Elia Kazan wrote a book "America, America" about his uncle, who grew up in Cappadocia in an environment of increasing persecution. Sent on foot by his father as…
Kazan c. 1950
Kazan (back row, right) with other members of the Group Theatre in 1938
Kazan in 1967
On the set of Splendor in the Grass (1961)