I once learned that Anatolian Greeks were in fact not an ancient people and that they arrived in the Ottoman era Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries trying to displace the Turks. Before the 1700s Anatolia didn't have a big Greek population.Greeks paid less taxes than the Turks in the Ottoman Empire. So they had more children and tried to displace the native Turks in Anatolia.
Greek population of Anatolia was around 2-3% in the 16th century. Very insignificant population. Vastly outnumbered by the Turks who are native to the peninsula.
>>18455956Still doesn't refute that the south coast of Crimea was majority Christian in the 16th-17th centuries. Tartars were not native to that region. https://www.azovgreeks.com/gendb/rus/pdf/chernoff_1.pdf
>>18455956Turks in general went into demographic decline in Balkans after 17th century. Their birth rates had fallen behind those of their Christian neighbors and were made worse by conscription
