Also known as Urumové, Urumove
Urums (, ; , Urúm; Turkish and Crimean Tatar: Urum, ) 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 the 17th centuries. Bringing together the Crimean Greeks along with Greek-speaking Crimean Alans and Crimean Goths, with other indigenous groups that had long inhabited the region, resulting in a gradual transformation of their collective identity.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Urums
- Ethnic group.population
- >192,700
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Greece, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine
- Ethnic group.langs
- Urum, Tsalka
- Ethnic group.rels
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Other Ukrainian Greeks, Pontics, Caucasian Greeks, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Meskhetian Turks
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Part of
- Greeks
- Native language
- Urum
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
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