THE ETHNIC HISTORY OF THE GREEKS OF MARIUPOL’

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Irina PONOMAREVA
Kyiv
THE ETHNIC HISTORY OF THE GREEKS
OF MARIUPOL’: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

The Greeks of Mariupol’ living on the Azov area of Ukraine take their roots from the town they founded. In the year of 1778 the Christian Greeks of the Crimean Khanate moved on to the territory of Mariupol’ district of Ekaterinoslav province. They were headed by Metropolitan Ignatiy, the initiator of the migration. Having abandoned their prosperous Crimea, 18 thousand Greeks obtained an administrative and religious autonomy in the Azov area. Nowadays the number of Greeks living in Donetsk region run third in its ethnic structure (1,6 %). According to the population roll of 1989 the number of Greeks equaled 98 thousand people1, but according to the population roll of 2001 the number decreased to 92,6 thousand people2 due to migrations to Greece.
The scientific interest lies in the fact that over a long period of time the Greeks have preserved their culture, traditions and language while being a constituent of various ethnic and social systems such as the Byzantine and the Osmanic Empires. Besides, another ethnic environment hasn’t affected the transformation of their selfconsciousness badly. The investigation of the ethnic processes that take place among the Greeks of the Azov area make it possible to typify the most complicated phenomena in the international interactions and in the intensity of the national and the cultural identity.

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