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The Pomak Minority of Greece

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009

Abstract

The article deals with position of Pomaks - Slavic speaking Muslims - in modern Greece. It covers the period since 1919, when the area inhabited by Pomaks was annected by Greece, until present.

It focuses mainly on turkifying process within Pomak community, which is an anusual case of assimilation of a minority by another minority. Pozornost je věnována zejména jejich tendenci k turkifikaci, tedy asimilaci jinou menšinou.