Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Cappadocian Greek language, Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, Elia Kazan, Gavoustema, Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks, Karamanlides, Karamanli Turkish, Patriarch Paisius II of Constantinople, Pavlos Karolidis, Sabbas the Sanctified, Saint Sarkis the Warrior. Excerpt: Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (Greek: Turkish: ) or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia, roughly the Nev ehir Province and surrounding provinces of modern Turkey. The Cappadocian Greeks traditionally spoke the Cappadocian Greek language, however after centuries of Ottoman rule there were many bilingual Cappadocian Greeks such as the Kouvoukliotes who were always Greek speakers and spoke Turkish with a strong Greek accent, and there were Cappadocian Greeks who only spoke the Turkish language and had given up the use of Greek centuries earlier, known as the Karamanlides. These Greeks had been living in Cappadocia since antiquity and following the Greek-Turkish population exchange of the 1920s a majority of the Cappadocian Greeks were relocated into the borders of modern Greece. Today their descendants can be found throughout Greece and the Greek diaspora worldwide. Mount Aktepe near Goreme and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (UNESCO World Heritage Site) The region in green represents the ancient homeland of the Cappadocian Greek people.The earliest Greek presence in Cappadocia dates from the time of the Mycenaean Greeks who flourished from 1500 to 1000 B.C. Mycenaean archaeological artifacts have been discovered in Kara-Eyuk (near Caesarea Mazaca) in Cappadocia. At about 1200 B.C. when the Hittites controlled Cappadocia, Greeks began to settle on the southern edge of the Hittite empire in Anatolia. The Hittites ruled Anatolia out of the north-central interior (including the region of Cappadocia) and records reveal that there were contacts between the Hittite rulers and those of the kingdom of Ahhiyawa, which scholars identify with the territory of the Achaeans, that is the nation of the Mycenaean Greeks. Shortly after 1200 BC the Hittite Empire was overrun by invaders called the Sea Peoples, who may have been of Greek origin. The province was known to the A