Looking at that map, one can easily predict that Greece will cease to exist in less than 50 years time. North-western part will be the independent Aromanian state, northern part will unite with the Republic of Macedonia, Thrace will join Turkey along with the islands while central Greece will be the independence Arvaniti-Albanian state which will eventually unite with greater Albania.
So only Morea left for the 20% grecoman griks.
Well, better than nothing ha
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looking at turkey's map the kurds seem like a cancer in a progressive stage with metastasis everywhere eating up the entire country slowly but steadily
98th Medical Battalion taking positions for combat!
Demir used a wikipedia map of Greece HOWEVER he "forgot" to mention what was written under the map:
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Regions with a traditional presence of languages other than Greek. Greek is today spoken as the dominant language throughout the country.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorities_in_Greece
DOMINANT LANGUAGE vs traditionanl presence
"Muslim
There is a Muslim minority living in Thrace, concentrated in the Rhodope and Xanthi Prefectures. From the 1991 census, the official position of the Greek government is that there are 98,000 Muslims in western Thrace, and that 50% are of Turkish ethnic origin, the rest being 35% Pomaks and 15% Roma.[29][30]"
well turco you have to hand it to us, if 20% Greeks manage to convert the other 80% non greeks in becoming Hellenes then imagine what we can do to turkey
Look at my map the Balkan minorities in western Turkey. Greek Moslems in Canakkale, Edremit and Ayvali, Pomaks in Eastern Thrace even Albanians in the Izmit region.
Larger ethnic map of turkey
This message has been edited by VII_PZ_DIV on Oct 15, 2009 4:12 PM
Dolphins dominate (Login Sheogorath) The Conquerors (Turkey)
ha ha ha
Greece, Turkey and Iran have all that problem of "minority language".
In the case of Iran, we could even discuss if Persians are even 50% (officially %51, but Azerbaijani Turks I've seen tell that's an assimilationnist lie, like Turkey pretending %80 for Turkey).
In Belgium, I've already seen Arvanites assimilated, but rejecting to be "Greek"
Turkey is 80% according to "How happy to say I'm Turk".
The real number of Turks is 52%.
Not that bad.
We were 1 million upon 14, about 1000 years ago
"Turkey is 80% according to "How happy to say I'm Turk".
The real number of Turks is 52%."
You are very close to the truth, however when it comes to race this percentage should be around 10% or less.
In the first map I point with black circles the racial category of Turcomans (noted as distinct from Turks) including the ones in neighboring Arab states. Turcomans were the original slant-eyed Oghuz Turks to settle Anatolia 1,000 years ago. Apparently those are the original mongoloid Turkics still living around the Salt lake, Kayseri and in Sivas. The large group identified as Turks are basically the indigenous Anatolians who were linguistically assimilated to the Turcomans.
So the official languages of Kos and Rodos is "turkish"? LOL, what are you smoking? , I've been to those islands numerous times. The only ones which I have heard speak turkish were 2 of the maids over at the Belvedere Hotel on Akti Kanari and an old guy who shined shoe's on Eth. Makariou street near the main town.
arselan, If anything the persian % is more than 51%, especially when you consider persian sub-groups living in iran like the Lurs, Bakhtiaris (who speak a dialect that consists of 78% being Middle-Persian), Mazandaranis and gilaks(speak a language that is more then 60% Persian), the Iranian tajiks and hazaras and some other small groups... If put together, these people makeover 14%of the populace, which would make Persian 65% or so.
Also, don't forget the ethnic persians living in minority cities and provinces. The way ethnic % are made is like this, they count how many people are living in those ethnic cities and decide on the percentage. Now here's the problem, there are alot more ethnic Persians who live in minority cities than there are minorities living in Persian cities.
If we were gonna consider the Persians by the "How happy I'm to be a Persian"law then more than 90% of the population would be Persian. Iran's minorities are aot more assimilated than Turkeys, mainly because turkish minorities live in villages and other isolated places.
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This message has been edited by fightclub20 on Oct 16, 2009 9:26 AM