Urums
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Urums (, ; , Urúm; Turkish and Crimean Tatar: Urum, ) are several groups of Turkic-speaking Greek Orthodox people native to Crimea, northeastern Turkey and Transcaucasia. 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 Alans and Crimean Goths, with other indigenous groups that had long inhabited the region, resulting in a gradual transformation of their collective identity.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Urums
- Ethnic group.population
- >192,700
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Greece, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine
- Ethnic group.langs
- Urum, Tsalka
- Ethnic group.rels
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Other Ukrainian Greeks, Pontics, Caucasian Greeks, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Meskhetian Turks
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- History
- Etymology
- North Azovian Urums
- Tsalka Urums
- Religion
- Language
- See also
- References
Urums (, ; , Urúm; Turkish and Crimean Tatar: Urum, ) are several groups of Turkic-speaking Greek Orthodox people native to Crimea, northeastern Turkey and Transcaucasia. 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 Alans and Crimean Goths, with other indigenous groups that had long inhabited the region, resulting in a gradual transformation of their collective identity.
== History == There are two main theories covering how the Urums may have originated. One hypothesis is that Crimean Urums arose as a result of some Crimean Greeks converting to using the Crimean Tatar language. Another theory is that the Urums arose as a result of the adoption of Christianity by a group of Crimean Tatars. Some also speculate that the Urums from Crimea/Ukraine and Georgia have the same origins from Anatolia, with some even going as far to say that the two Urum groups speak the same language; however, the latter is not supported with the available linguistic data.