Ukrainian Greeks
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Ukrainian Greeks are a Greek minority that reside in or used to reside in the territory of modern Ukraine. The majority of Ukrainian Greeks live in Donetsk Oblast and are particularly concentrated aro
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Greek Coin from Chersonesos in Crimea depicting Diotimus 2nd century BC. (Odesa Numismatics Museum)
Korniakt's Tower in Lviv built by Greek merchant Konstantinos Korniaktos in 1578
Non-commissioned officers and men of the Greek Balaklava Infantry battalion, 1797-1830
Urums
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Urums are several groups of Turkic-speaking Greek Orthodox people native to Crimea, northeastern Turkey and Transcaucasia. The emergence and development of the Urum identity took place from 13th to th
Ukrainian Greeks
…the north, Greeks had remained only in the towns on the southern slopes of the Crimean Mountains and became divided into two sub-groups: Tatar-speaking Urums and Rumaiic Pontic Greeks with Rumeíka Greek as their mother tongue. The Crimean Principality of Theodoro gained independence from the Empire of Trebizond…
A group of Urums from Crimea waving Greek flags.
Iliad Venetus A folio 37v Book II 681 685