Draft:Greek settlements of the Azov region

The Greek settlements of the Azov region were established in the Azov region in the 1780s by Greeks resettled from the Crimean peninsula between July 28, 1778 and the end of September 1778. Linguistically, the Azov Greeks are divided into two different groups: Rumeis, who speak the Rumeika dialect of Greek, and Urum, whose language belongs to the group of Turkic languages. In the modern Azov region, Greek-Rumeis and Greek-Urum mostly live separately.

Mixed settlements
Mariupol

On March 24, 1780, at the insistence of Metropolitan Ignatius, the city of Marienpol (the same name held by the city of Pavlograd, to which the Greek settlers originally arrived) was renamed Mariupol (a pseudo-Greek name with the element "-pol", i.e. "city of Mary"), in honor of Maria Fedorivna, the wife of the heir to the imperial throne, the future Emperor Paul I.

Velyka Novosilka

The settlement of Velyka Novosilka was founded in 1779 on the right side of the Mokri Yaly River by Greeks resettled from the Crimean Peninsula. According to legend, the settlers approached the site of the future Velyka Novosilka from the side of Chervona Hirka, and were struck by the area that lay below, covered with thorns and cut by the valleys of the Mokri Yaly, Shaitanka and Kashlahach rivers.

Rumei settlements
Styla

The foundation of the village of Styla is connected with the resettlement of Greeks from the Crimea to the Azov Governorate in 1779. The village of Styla was founded on the banks of the river Mokra Volnovakha by the Greeks-Rumeis. In 1812, a church was built in the center of the village, which was named Kyriakovska in honor of St. Kirikia.

Rozdolne

The village of Rozdolne was founded in 1779 by Greeks who moved from the Crimea at the confluence of two rivers (once full of water, but now they have become smaller, overgrown with reeds and sedges). Until 1946, the village was called Velyka Karakuba. It is located 18 km from the district center and 50 km from the regional center.

Maloianysol

The village of Maloianysol was founded by resettlers from the Crimean villages of Uishun, Yeni-kei, and Dzhemrek. It spread in the valley of the river Kalchyk (Kalky). There were 65 houses in the village, where 235 people lived. The village was divided into three quarters - Anadolskyi (Piratki), Jemrekskyi (Pyatakh) and Maloianysolskyi (Kharakhla).

Sartana

The Sartana settlement was formed on the right bank of the Kalmius River, 15 km from the newly created city of Mariupol. There is currently no exact historical definition of the word Sartana. There are only versions that remain undocumented.

Urzuf

The first human settlements on the territory of the current village of Urzuf belong to the Paleolithic era. In the vicinity of the village, especially along the banks of the Zelena River, stone tools are found: stone hammers, axes, grain grinders, belonging to the Bronze Age.

Cherdakly

The modern village of Kremenivka. It was founded in the summer of 1780 by immigrants from the Crimean villages of Karakuba (131 men and 113 women), Cherdakly (75 men and 79 women) and Bai-Su (51 men and 56 women).

Chermalyk

The village of Chermalyk (so called "curly grass" in Tatar) was founded in July 1780. Since 1946 - the village of Zazhitochne, since 1972 - Zamozhne, since 2000 - Chermalyk again).

Yalta

At the end of July 1780, the village of Yalta, in Greek Yalita, which translates as "sea shore", "beach", was founded 25 versts from Mariupol, in the southern direction to the Bilosarai Spit.

Urum settlements
Karan

The modern name is Hranitne. After it was founded by residents of the Nova Karan village in 1881, it was called Stara Karan. In 1943, the village of Novoselivka separated from it. Granitne is located on the right bank of the Kalmius River at the junction of the Dubova and Stolova balka tributaries.

Komar

The earliest information about the Crimean village of Komar dates back to 1652. At that time, there were 35 yards in the village. According to the testimony of Metropolitan Ignatius, during the resettlement in 1779, 100 families left Komar.

Manhush

Manhush is an urban-type settlement, the district center, the area of which is 929.1 hectares. From 1946 to 1995, it was called Pershotravneve. In March 1995, as a result of a local referendum, the village returned its historical name - Manhush (translated from Greek as "white bird").

Staromlynivka

The village of Staromlynivka (until 1947 - Stary Kermenchyk) was founded in 1779 by Urum Greeks from the Crimean villages: Ashaga-Kermenchyk, Shuryu, Albat, Biya-Sala, Ulu-Sala. A total of 195 families, comprising 971 people, left Crimea.

Stara Laspi

Stara Laspi (the original name Laspi was transformed into Laspa, and after leaving it in 1928, some residents received the prefix "Stara") is a village, and the center of the village council. It is located on the right bank of the Kalmius River, 36 kilometers from the district center and 10 kilometers from the Karakuba railway station.

Starobesheve

Starobesheve is an urban-type village (until 1896 it was the village of Beshevo, the district center). In 1866, a single system of civil organization and administration was extended to the Greek settlers. Among the 11 Greek volosts, Beshivska was created, which later in 1874 was included into the Mariupol district.

Staryi Krym

In 1780, emigrants from the Crimea settled on the right side of the Kalka River (now Kalchyk) and on the left side of Vodnaya Balka, and named the new settlement Eski-Krym, i.e. Old Crimea. The male population was 204, the female population was 163 and 79 households.

Ulakly

Resettlement of Greeks in Azov began in March 1780. Greek farmers were the first to leave Crimea for new places. They traveled in carriages, and it was a very difficult journey. When settlers moved to new places, they called their new village the way their old village was called before.