Asia Minor Greeks

The Asia Minor Greeks (Μικρασιάτες), also known as Asiatic Greeks or Anatolian Greeks, make up the ethnic Greek populations who lived in Asia Minor from 1200s BCE as a result of Greek colonization until the forceful population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, though some communities in Asia Minor survive to the present day.

Cappadocian Greeks
Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; Kapadokyalı Rumlar) or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia.

Pontic Greeks
The Pontic Greeks (Πόντιοι, romanized: Póndii or Ελληνοπόντιοι, romanized: Ellinopóndii; Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları, პონტოელი ბერძნები, romanized: P’ont’oeli Berdznebi) are an ethnically Greek group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northeastern Anatolia.

Other Asia Minor Greeks

 * Asiatic Aeolian Greeks
 * Asiatic Ionian Greeks
 * Asiatic Dorian Greeks
 * Antigonid Greeks

Historical context

 * Pontic colonies (classical antiquity)
 * Hellenistic Anatolia (Hellenistic and Roman era)
 * Byzantine Anatolia (Middle Ages)
 * Ottoman Greeks (early modern), the Republic of Turkey's predecessor
 * Greeks in Turkey (modern), Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians
 * Greek refugees

Notable Asia Minor Greeks

 * Thales, pre-Socratic philosopher, considered the father of philosophy and science, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
 * Homer, poet, the father of Western literature, his origin is disputed, but the most widespread account was that he was from Ionia
 * Hesiod, poet, the father of Greek didactic poetry
 * Herodotus, historian and geographer, the father of history
 * Hecataeus of Miletus, historian and geographer, the father of geography
 * Strabo, geographer and historian
 * Hipparchus, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, considered the founder of trigonometry
 * Apollonius of Perga, geometer and astronomer, one of the greatest mathematicians of antiquity
 * Eudoxus of Cnidus, astronomer, mathematician, doctor, and lawmaker
 * Hippodamus, architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist, the father of European urban planning
 * Galen, physician and surgeon, one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity
 * Herophilos, physician, one of the earliest anatomists
 * Dioscorides, physician, pharmacologist, botanist, the father of pharmacognosy
 * Aretaeus of Cappadocia, physician, wrote eight treatises on diseases
 * Soranus of Ephesus, physician, most notably his four-volume treatise on gynecology
 * Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
 * Scylax of Caryanda, explorer and writer
 * Anaximander, pre-Socratic philosopher, first to attempt making a map of the known world
 * Anaximenes, pre-Socratic philosopher
 * Heraclitus, pre-Socratic philosopher
 * Xenophanes, pre-Socratic philosopher, theologian and poet
 * Anaxagoras, pre-Socratic philosopher
 * Leucippus, pre-Socratic philosopher, the founder of atomism
 * Diogenes, philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism
 * Xenocrates, Platonic philosopher and mathematician
 * Strato of Lampsacus, Peripatetic philosopher, called the Physicus
 * Cleanthes, Stoic philosopher and boxer
 * Chrysippus, Stoic philosopher
 * Epictetus, Stoic philosopher
 * Arcesilaus, philosopher, the founder of Academic Skepticism
 * Apollonius of Tyana, Neo-Pythagorean philosopher who became a mythical hero during the Roman Empire
 * Apelles, renowned painter
 * Anacreon, lyric poet
 * Alcman, choral lyric poet
 * Aratus, didactic poet
 * Mimnermus, elegiac poet
 * Hipponax, iambic poet
 * Diphilus, one of the greatest poets of New Comedy
 * Chariton, novelist, wrote Callirhoe, arguably the earliest surviving Western novel
 * Xenophon of Ephesus, novelist, wrote Ephesian Tale
 * Autolycus of Pitane, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
 * Heraclides Ponticus, philosopher and astronomer, possibly the originator of the heliocentric theory
 * Philo of Byzantium, engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics
 * Callippus, astronomer and mathematician
 * Crates of Mallus, constructed the earliest known globe of the Earth
 * Theodosius of Bithynia, astronomer and mathematician
 * Theon of Smyrna, mathematician and philosopher
 * Bryson of Heraclea, mathematician
 * Sostratus of Cnidus, architect and engineer, probably designed the lighthouse of Alexandria
 * Pythius of Priene, architect, designed the Temple of Athena Polias and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
 * Sinan, chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician
 * Asclepiades of Bithynia, physician
 * Rufus of Ephesus, physician
 * Nicander, physician and poet
 * Alexander of Tralles, one of the most eminent physicians in the Byzantine Empire
 * Alexander Polyhistor, scholar
 * Ctesias, historian
 * Ephorus, historian
 * Cassius Dio, historian
 * Dionysius of Halicarnassus, historian and teacher of rhetoric
 * Pausanias, geographer and historian
 * Diogenes Laertius, biographer of the Greek philosophers
 * Arrian, historian and philosopher
 * Dio Chrysostom, historian and orator
 * Eunapius, historian
 * Cadmus of Miletus, the oldest of the logographers
 * Xanthus, historian
 * Agatharchides, historian
 * Ulfilas, creator of the Gothic alphabet
 * Saint Nicholas, early Christian bishop, the prototype for Santa Claus
 * Saint George, early Christian martyr
 * Basil of Caesarea, Bishop and theologian
 * Gregory of Nazianzus, archbishop of Constantinople and theologian
 * Aspasia, the most important woman in the history of fifth-century Athens
 * Gordian I, Roman emperor
 * Helena, Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great
 * Basilina, mother of Emperor Julian the Apostate
 * Maurice, Byzantine emperor