During their reign Greek towns were beginning to appear in the southern regions of Cappadocia. These kings began to intermarry with neighboring Greek Hellenistic kingdoms, such as the Seleucids. In the centuries following Alexander the Great's death, Ariarathes, the son of a Persian satrap who formerly controlled Cappadocia, gained control of Cappadocia and left it to a line of his successors, who mostly bore the name of the founder of the dynasty. (right) Archelaus of Cappadocia (36 BC – 17 AD) was the last king of Cappadocia and was of Greek origin. 163–130 BC) who is considered to have been the greatest king of Cappadocia and was predominantly Greek by descent.

The Hellenistic Kings would make new Greek settlements in Cappadocia and other surrounding regions in order to secure their hold on this volatile region, under their rule Greek settlements would increase in the Anatolian interior. Unlike other regions of Asia Minor where Greeks would settle in cities, most of the Greek settlements in Cappadocia and other interior Anatolian regions were villages. In the following centuries the Seleucid Greek Kings founded many Greek settlements in the interior of Asia Minor, and this region would become popular for the recruitment of soldiers.

Eumenes left behind administrators, judges and selected garrison commanders in Cappadocia. Īfter the death of Alexander the Great, Eumenes of Cardia, one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great, was appointed satrap of Cappadocia, where he set up Greek settlements and distributed cities to his associates. It would become the sole spoken language of the region's inhabitants within three centuries and would remain so for the next one thousand years. As a result, Greek became the lingua franca of the region's natives. This Greek population movement of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC solidified a Greek presence in Cappadocia. In the Hellenistic era, following the conquest of Anatolia by Alexander the Great, Greek settlers began arriving in the mountainous regions of Cappadocia at this time. Mycenaean Greeks set up trading posts along the west coast around 1300 BC and soon started colonizing the coasts, spreading Hellenic culture and language. īefore Greeks and Greek culture arrived in Asia Minor, the area was controlled by another Indo-European people, the Hittites. The area known as Cappadocia today was known to the Ancient Persians as Katpatuka, a name which the Greeks altered into Kappadokia (Cappadocia). Today their descendants can be found throughout Greece and the Greek diaspora worldwide.Īpollonius of Tyana (1st century ad), a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in Cappadocia In 1923 following the genocide of the minorities of Turkey the surviving Cappadocian Greek native communities were forced to leave their homeland and resettle in Greece by the terms of the Greek–Turkish population exchange. According to 1897 estimations, the sanjak of Konya had a total Greek population of 68.101 and according to Ottoman population statistics of 1914, the sanjak of Niğde had a total Greek population of 58.312 and the sanjak of Kayseri had a total of 26.590. In the 11th century Seljuq Turks arriving from Central Asia conquered the region, beginning its gradual shift in language and religion. Phrygian) became entirely Greek-speaking by at least the 5th century. There had been a continuous Greek presence in Cappadocia since antiquity, and the indigenous populations of Cappadocia, some of whose Indo-European languages may have been closely related to Greek, (cf. Greek language, Cappadocian Greek, Karamanli TurkishĬappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians ( Greek: Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar) or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia, roughly the Nevşehir Province and surrounding provinces of modern Turkey. Cappadocian Greeks in traditional clothing, GreeceĤ4,432 (More than 50,000 including descendants) – around 50,000 (1920s estimate)

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