historical-nonfiction:The distribution of Armenians (in red) and Greeks (in purple), in 1900 CE and
historical-nonfiction:The distribution of Armenians (in red) and Greeks (in purple), in 1900 CE and in 2000 CE. The mass movement of populations were the result of the Greek Genocide and Armenian Genocide; both began during World War I under the Ottoman Empire, and continued into the early 1920s under the new state of Turkey.Interesting note: in 1900, Greek and Armenian populations bordered each other in two places, in eastern Turkey and around Constantinople -- source link
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