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until about 100 years ago ethnic panaroma in anatolia was : * turkish speakers * greek speakers (west, central, north) * armenian speakers (central, south, east, northeast) * zaza/kirmanj speakers (east, southeast) * arabic speakers (south) * aramean speakers (southeast) * laz/georgian speakers (northeast)

i only asked this question to start some sort of a communication with members here, where i am new .. talking about family origins always proves to be a good start for getting to know more about cultures .. why should i think diasporans would trace their roots to outside anatolia ?

i am a researcher of history and cultures .. i am trying to understand how our anatolia was like until about 100 years ago. how was the cultural and ethnic landscape during the late ottoman period .. i have spent a lot of time studying turkic cultures and iranic cultures. i want to know more about non-turkic and non-iranic components as well : armenian and greek mostly. ---- gamavor, arpa : keep your chauvinist ideas to yourselves ..

my fathers side : turk from sivas & koyulhisar/sivas .. my mothers side : turk from bor/nighde & karapinar/konya ..

i am a turk from istanbul. i would like to know about armenian roots of forum members. which parts of middle east (this would mean anatolia in most cases) did your grandparents use to live before chaotic times ? before 1910s ..