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Islam in Greece is represented by a number of indigenous communities, mainly in Ottoman-era Crete, Epirus, and western Greek Macedonia and in present-day East Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece. In more recent years immigrant communities from the Muslim world who have mainly settled in Athens have added to the numbers of Greece's Muslims. == Muslims in Greece== The Muslim population in Greece is not homogeneous, since it consists of different ethnic, linguistic and social backgrounds which often overlap. The Muslim faith is the creed of several ethnic groups living in the present territory of Greece, namely the Pomaks, ethnic Turks, certain Romani groups, and Greek Muslims particularly of Crete, Epirus, and western Greek Macedonia who converted mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries. The country's Muslim population decreased significantly as a result of the 1923 population exchange agreement between Greece and the new Turkish Republic, which also uprooted approximately 1.5 million Greeks from Asia Minor. Many of the Muslims of Northern Greece were actually ethnic Greek Muslims from Epirus and Greek Macedonia, whereas the Muslims of Pomak and ethnic Turkish origin (the Western Thrace Turks) from East Macedonia and Thrace were exempt from the terms of the population exchange. However, successive Greek governments and officials are defining the Turkish-speaking Muslims of East Macedonia and Thrace as Greek Muslims and don't acknowledge the existence of a Turkish minority in Northern Greece. This policy is aimed to give the impression that the Muslims of the region are the descendants of Ottoman-era ethnic Greek converts to Islam like the Vallahades of pre-1923 Greek Macedonia and so thereby avoid a possible future situation in which East Macedonia and Thrace is ceded to Turkey on the basis of the ethnic origin of its Muslim inhabitants.〔See Hugh Poulton, 'The Balkans: minorities and states in conflict', Minority Rights Publications, 1991〕 The term ''Muslim minority'' (Μουσουλμανική μειονότητα ''Musulmanikí mionótita'') refers to an Islamic religious, linguistic and ethnic minority in western Thrace, which is part of the Greek administrative region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece. In 1923, under the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne, the Greek Muslims of Epirus, Greek Macedonia, and elsewhere in mainly Northern Greece were required to immigrate to Turkey; whereas, the Christians living in Turkey were required to immigrate to Greece in an "Exchange of Populations". The Muslims of western Thrace and the Christians of Istanbul and the islands of Gökçeada and Bozcaada (Imvros and Tenedos) were the only populations not exchanged. ''For more information on this community, see Muslim minority of Greece.'' According to most estimates,〔(US Department of State-Religious Freedom, Greece )〕〔(Meinardus "Muslims: Turks, Pomaks and Gypsies" in R. Clogg Ed. "Minorities in Greece" )〕 about half of the Greek Muslims consider themselves ethnically Turkish. The rest are Slavic speaking Pomaks and Roma. Relics of the Ottoman Empire, this community resides mainly in Western Thrace, that is East Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece, where they were allowed to remain under the terms of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. In the town of Komotini, it makes up almost 40 percent of the total population, whereas in the town of Xanthi it makes up 23 percent of the population. There is also a small Muslim community in some of the Dodecanese islands which, as part of the Italian Dodecanese of the Kingdom of Italy between 1911 and 1947, were not subjected to the exchange of the population between Turkey and Greece in 1923. They number about 3,000, some of whom espouse a Turkish identity and speak Turkish, while others are the Greek-speaking descendants of Cretan Muslims. The community is strongest in the city of Rhodes and on the island of Kos (in particular the village of Platanos).〔(Moslem teacher born in Rhodes )〕 The Pomaks are mainly located in compact villages in Western Thrace's Rhodope Mountains. While the Greek Roma community is predominantly Greek Orthodox, the Roma in Thrace are mainly Muslim. Estimates of the recognized Muslim minority, which is mostly located in Thrace, range from 98,000 to 140,000 (between 0.9% and 1.2%), while the illegal immigrant Muslim community numbers between 200,000 and 500,000.〔Ta Nea 23 April 2010〕 Albanian immigrants to Greece are usually associated with the Muslim faith, although most are secular in orientation.〔(Greece )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islam in Greece」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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