Urums
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The Urums (/ʊəˈruːm/, /ʊˈruːm/; Greek: Ουρούμ, Urúm; Turkish and Crimean Tatar: Urum, IPA: [uˈɾum]) are several groups of Turkic-speaking Greek Orthodox people native to Crimea. The emergence and development of the Urum identity took place from 13th to the 17th centuries. Bringing together the Crimean Greeks along with Greek-speaking Crimean Goths, with other indigenous groups that had long inhabited the region, resulting in a gradual transformation of their collective identity.[2]
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Total population | |
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>192,700[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Greece, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine | |
Languages | |
Urum language | |
Religion | |
Eastern Orthodoxy | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Crimean Greeks, Pontics, Caucasian Greeks |
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