Karamanlides
Sign in to saveThe Karamanlides (; ), also known as Karamanli Greeks or simply Karamanlis, are a traditionally Turkish-speaking and Greek Orthodox people native to the region of Karaman in Anatolia.
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- Ethnic group.group
- Karamanlides
- Ethnic group.image
- Bremen, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, ms. Or. 9, fol. 91r.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Christian lady from Karaman (Christiana Caramanica), depicted by Lambert de Vos in 1574
- Ethnic group.regions
- Greece
- Ethnic group.religions
- Greek Orthodox
- Ethnic group.languages
- Traditionally Karamanli Turkish, now predominantly Modern Greek
- Ethnic group.related
- Cappadocian Greeks, Pontic Greeks, other Asia Minor Greeks, Urums, Christian Turks
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- Language
- Origins and history
- Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
- Culture
- Settlements
- Aksaray region
- Nevşehir region
- Niğde region
- Kayseri region
- Develi–Farasa region
- See also
- Footnotes
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The Karamanlides (; ), also known as Karamanli Greeks or simply Karamanlis, are a traditionally Turkish-speaking and Greek Orthodox people native to the region of Karaman in Anatolia.
Some scholars regard Karamanlides as the Turkish-speaking Greeks from Karaman, though their exact ethnic origin is disputed; they could either be descendants of Byzantine Greeks who were linguistically Turkified, or of Christian Turkic soldiers who settled in the region after the Turkic conquests, or even both. The Karamanlides were forced to leave Anatolia during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Today, a majority of the population live in Greece and have fully integrated into Greek society.