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[[File:Caucasus map (in Russian, 1903).jpg|thumb|Russian Map of the Caucasus and north-eastern Anatolia, 1903]]

The '''Caucasus Greeks''' (((lang-el|Έλληνες του Καυκάσου)) or more commonly ((lang|el|Καυκάσιοι Έλληνες)), ((lang-tr|Kafkas Rum))), also known as the '''Greeks of Transcaucasia and Russian Asia Minor''', are the ethnic [[Greeks]] of the [[North Caucasus]] and [[Transcaucasia]] in what is now southwestern [[Russia]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], and northeastern [[Turkey]]. These specifically include the [[Pontic Greeks]], though they today span a much wider region including the Russian north Caucasus, and the former Russian Caucasus provinces of the [[Batum Oblast|Batum Oblast']] and the [[Kars Oblast|Kars Oblast']] (the so-called ''Russian Asia Minor''), now in north-eastern Turkey and Adjara in Georgia.<ref name="autogenerated1">Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, Introduction.</ref>

Greek people migrated into these areas well before the Christian/Byzantine era. Traders, Christian Orthodox scholars/clerics, refugees, mercenaries, and those who had backed the wrong side in the many civil wars and periods of political in-fighting in the Classical/Hellenistic and Late Roman/Byzantine periods, were especially represented among those who migrated.<ref>Browning, Robert, p. 82.</ref> One notable example is the 7th-century Greek Bishop [[Cyrus of Alexandria]], originally from [[Phasis (town)|Phasis]] in present-day [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Greek settlers in the Caucasus generally became assimilated into the indigenous population, particularly in Georgia, where [[Byzantine]] Greeks shared a common Christian Orthodox faith and heritage with the natives.<ref>Browning, Robert, p. 76.</ref>

[[File:Карская обл 1881 из Винклера.jpg|thumb|Official Russian Empire coat of arms of Kars Oblast (1881-1899).]]
The vast majority of these Greek communities date from the late Ottoman era, and are usually defined in modern Greek academic circles as 'Eastern Pontic [Greeks]' (modern Greek - ((lang|el|ανατολικοί Πόντιοι)), modern Turkish '((lang|tr|doğu Pontos Rum))'), as well as 'Caucasus Greeks', while outside academic discourse they are sometimes defined somewhat pejoratively and inaccurately as 'Russo-Pontic [Greeks]' (modern Greek - ((lang|el|Ρωσο-Πόντιοι))).<ref>Koromela and Evert, 1989</ref> Nevertheless, in general terms Caucasus Greeks can be described as Russianized and pro-Russian empire Pontic Greeks in politics and culture and as ''Mountain Greeks'' in terms of lifestyle, since wherever they settled, whether in their original homelands in the [[Pontic Alps]] or [[Eastern Anatolia]], or Georgia and the [[Lesser Caucasus]], they preferred and were most used to living in mountainous areas and especially highland plateaux.<ref name="autogenerated2">See Michel Bruneau, 'The Pontic Greeks: from Pontus to the Caucasus'</ref> In broad terms, it can be said that the Caucasus Greeks' link with the South Caucasus is a direct consequence of the highland plateaux of the latter being seen and used by the Pontic Greeks as a natural refuge and rallying point whenever North-eastern Anatolia was overrun by Muslim Turks in the Seljuk and Ottoman periods.<ref name="autogenerated2"/>

==Ancient and medieval history==

[[File:Caucasus Greek Major in the Russian Imperial Army, Christos Adamidis from Muzarat, Ardahan district..JPG|thumb|Caucasus Greek officer from Mouzarat (now Çakırüzüm köyü), [[Ardahan]] district, former Russian [[south Caucasus]] province of [[Kars Oblast]]]]

Although large numbers of Greeks live in parts of Ukraine and southern Russia, such as [[Mariupol]] and [[Stavropol Krai]], the term Caucasus Greeks strictly speaking should be confined to those Greeks who had settled in the former Russian [[Transcaucasus]] provinces of [[Batum Oblast|Batum]] and [[Kars Oblast|Kars Oblast']], parts of Georgia such as the region around [[Tsalka]], central [[Abkhazia]] and other localities of the Black Sea Russian Riviera.

Following the Ottoman conquest of the [[Empire of Trebizond]] in 1461 large numbers of Pontic Greeks left the [[Pontic Alps]] region as refugees and resettled in parts of the [[South Caucasus]], and particularly Georgia. Even the son of King [[David of Trebizond]]'s son George had fled there with his retinue and married a Georgian princess of the [[Gurieli]] dynasty.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 53.</ref> However, the numbers of these early Pontic Greek refugees to Georgia were in any case probably fairly small, and so although some of the refugees managed to retain their Pontic Greek language and identity, others assimilated through intermarriage into the other Christian communities of the [[South Caucasus]] region, particularly their fellow Christian Orthodox [[Georgians]] but also those [[Armenians]] or [[Ossetians]] who were Orthodox.<ref name="Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 64">Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 64.</ref>

==Early modern period==
To complicate matters further, many so-called "Ottoman Turks" who settled in Georgia and the South Caucasus following [[Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign]] of the 1570s were actually Pontic Greeks from northeastern Anatolia who had adopted Islam and the Turkish language for official purposes but continued to use Pontic Greek in their daily lives, with one prominent example of an Ottoman Muslim Georgian of Pontic Greek origin being [[Resid Mehmed Pasha]]. These [[Greek Muslims]] who adhered to [[Islam in Georgia (country)|Islam in Georgia]] also either eventually assimilated with the Turkish-speaking Muslim population of southern Georgia usually defined as [[Meskhetian Turks]], returned to parts of eastern Anatolia such as Kars following the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, or reverted to their Greek Orthodoxy following the annexation and reintegrated into the Greek Orthodox population of the country.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 73.</ref> Finally, according to available historical evidence we know that thousands of Pontic Greeks from Ottoman north-eastern [[Anatolia]] and especially the [[Gümüşhane]] (Greek [[Argyroupoli, Rethymno|Argyroupolis]]) region of the [[Pontic Alps]] are known to have gone to Tsalka in 1763 on being invited by [[King Heraclius II]] of Georgia to develop silver and lead mining at Akhtala and Alaverdi (in present-day Armenia).<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, pp. 54-62.</ref> Many of their descendants survive in Georgia’s [[Marneuli]] district, although most immigrated to Greece, and particularly [[Thessaloniki]] ([[Salonika]]) in [[Greek Macedonia]] in the mid-1990s.<ref>Eloyeva, p. 87.</ref>

It is difficult to verify the numbers of all such waves of Pontic Greeks from the Pontic Alps region to Georgia and the South Caucasus between circa 1520 and 1800, which according to Anthony Bryer is the most obscure period in the history of Pontus and the Pontic Greeks, owing to the scarcity of contemporary Greek and Ottoman Turkish sources on the subject.<ref>Anthony Bryer, 'The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus' (Variourum, 1980), XI., p. 199.</ref> Modern historians suggest that following the Ottoman conquest of 1461, many, if not most Pontic Greeks retreated up into the highlands, where it was easier to maintain their culture and freedom from the encroachments of the Ottoman authorities. This movement was reinforced in the early 1600s by the growing power along the coastal valleys districts of the ''derebeys'' ('valley lords'), which further encouraged Pontic Greeks to retreat away from the coast deeper into the highlands and up onto the eastern Anatolian plateau, before some moved further east into the neighbouring Lesser Caucasus around Kars and southern Georgia.<ref>See also Anthony Bryer, 'The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus' (Variourum, 1980), V., p. 142.</ref> Modern historians also suggests that a major migratory movement of Pontic Greeks onto the eastern Anatolian plateau and the Lesser Caucasus occurred in the reign of [[Sultan Mehmed IV]] (1648–87), during which a common pattern was initiated in Ottoman history: the Ottomans and their clients the [[Crimean Tatars]] suffered a string of severe defeats at the hands of the expansionist [[Russian Empire]] and so followed this up with a wave of repression against the Greeks of both the southern Balkans and the Pontic Alps region, on the pretext that Greek statesmen and traders had colluded with the Tsar. As a result, many Pontic Greeks felt pressured into following their cousins who had left Pontus as refugees in previous generations, and so they too decided to migrate to southern Russia or neighbouring Georgia and the South Caucasus.<ref>See also Anthony Bryer, 'The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus' (Variourum, 1980), XI, p. 42.</ref>

However, the largest number of Pontic Greeks from north-eastern Anatolian who settled in Georgia, according to extant historical evidence, were those who fled Ottoman reprisals following the 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war, the [[Greek War of Independence]], the 1828-29 [[Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)|Russo-Turkish War]], and the war of 1853-56, which unlike earlier such movements are more widely attested in documentary evidence and traditionally cited by many Pontic Greeks themselves.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 29.</ref> In the war of 1828-29 many north-eastern Anatolia Greeks welcomed, collaborated with, or fought in the Russian Army that occupied [[Erzurum]], [[Gümüşhane]], [[Erzinjan]], and [[Kars]] (all now in north-eastern Turkey).<ref>Anderson, 1967</ref><ref>Coene (2011), p. 67.</ref> Most of their descendants settled in Georgia (in areas such as [[Tsalka]] and [[Samtskhe-Javakheti]]), the Russian Trans-Caucasus, and other parts of southern Russia. A smaller number of such Pontic Greeks had of course settled in Georgia and the Russian Caucasus well before the Russo-Turkish wars, most notably those belonging to noble and landowning families from the pre-Ottoman [[Empire of Trebizond]].<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 28.</ref> These included several members of the late [[Byzantine]] [[Komnenos]] or [[Comnenid dynasty]] and collateral branches, who often married into princely families from neighbouring Georgia, including those of the [[Bagrationi]] and especially the [[Gurieli]] and [[Andronikashvili]].<ref>Browning, p. 119.</ref> Among those who remained in the [[Pontic Alps]] and north-eastern [[Anatolia]] some led local revolts against the Ottomans, while many others actually intermarried into the Ottoman ruling elite, thereby converting to Islam and joining the Turkish millet.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 66.</ref>

Several Ottoman-era sources tell us, however, that even among [[Pontic Greeks]] belonging to local noble families - such as those of [[Gavras]], [[Doukas]] and the [[Komnenoi]] - who had ''turned Turk'', many remained [[Crypto-Christian]] (in north-eastern Anatolia often referred to as [[Stavriotes]]), openly renouncing Islam and taking up arms against Ottoman troops based around [[Gümüşhane]] and [[Erzinjan]] during the Russo-Turkish wars, before following the Russian army back into Georgia and southern Russia.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 88.</ref> It was some of these [[Pontic Greek]] community leaders that claimed noble lineages extending back to the [[Empire of Trebizond]] who subsequently became officers in the Russian Imperial army, as many Armenian and Georgian princes such as [[Ivane Andronikashvili]] had previously done.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 33.</ref> These Caucasus Greek officers, whether of noble Byzantine or more humble Pontic Greek origin, played a significant role in the 1877 Russian conquest of [[Kars]] and [[Ardahan]], where many of them settled with their families and other displaced Greeks from northeast Anatolia and Georgia (the latter themselves the descendants of pre-1877 Greek refugees and exiles from northeast Anatolia now re-settled in Kars by the Russian Imperial government).<ref>Eloyeva, p. 27.</ref>

[[File:Caucasus Greek Orthodox cleric and community leaders.jpg|thumb|Caucasus Greek cleric and community leaders]]

==Language==
A large number of Caucasus Greeks who settled in Georgia became referred to as [[Urums|Urum]] (from the Turkish for '[Byzantine] Romans') and spoke a Turkish dialect with a large admixture of Pontic Greek, Georgian, and Armenian vocabulary.<ref>Eloyeva, 1994</ref> According to local Greek legend, after the suppression of their revolt against Ottoman rule, these Turkish-speaking but Christian Orthodox Caucasus Greeks had been given the choice by Sultan [[Selim I]] either to accept Islam but continue to use their Greek mother tongue, or to use the Turkish language but retain their Christian Orthodox faith.<ref>Topalidis, p. 98.</ref>  Selim I had been based in the [[Trabzon|Trebizond]] region before he became Sultan in 1512, since he was himself of partly [[Pontic Greeks|Pontic Greek]] origin on the side of his mother [[Gülbahar Hatun]].<ref>Koromela, p. 43.</ref><ref>Bryer, The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus, (Variorum, 1980), XI., p. 41.</ref>

Nevertheless, most Caucasus Greeks had never had to face this predicament of having to choose between their Christian Orthodox faith and their [[Pontic Greek|Pontic Greek language]] and so were able to retain both, although when in Russian territory they eventually came to adopt Russian as their second language for public and educational purposes.<ref>Acherson, ch. 10.</ref> Caucasus Greeks also often maintained some command of Turkish as more or less a third language, thanks to their own roots in north-eastern Anatolia, where they had after all lived (usually very uneasily and in a state of intermittent warfare) alongside Turkish-speaking Muslims since the Seljuk-backed Turkish migrations into 'the lands of Rum' or Anatolia during the 11th and 12th centuries.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 17.</ref> Pontic Greeks in Georgia and the Russian Caucasus also maintained this command of Turkish so as to communicate with their Muslim neighbours living in the region, most of whom used Turkish as a ''lingua franca'' or even adopted it as their first language irrespective of actual ethnic origin.<ref>Coene, ch. 1.</ref> This situation is in stark contrast to that of the [[Greek Muslims]] of western [[Greek Macedonia]] called [[Vallahades]] and the [[Cretan Muslims]], both of whom generally remained ignorant of Turkish, continued to use Greek as their first language, and retained Greek culture and traditions long after converting to Islam in the middle Ottoman period. Of course, while many Pontic Greeks and Caucasus Greeks had also adopted Islam as early as the 1500s or before, these "new Turks" generally either adopted Turkish and then assimilated into the Turkish-speaking Muslim Ottoman population or they remained Crypto-Christian and then openly reverted to their Christian Orthodoxy on the occasion of the 1828 Russian occupation of northeastern Anatolia or after the passing of the [[Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856]].<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 55.</ref>
 [[File:Kars 1828.jpg|thumb|Russian siege of Kars, 1828]]
It should be stressed, then, that the vast majority of these eastern Pontic Greeks who had settled in southern Russia, Georgia, and the Trans-Caucasus region but preserved their distinct Greek identity were mainly the descendants of the Greeks who left the Pontic Alps and the northeast Anatolian highland region after the Russo-Turkish wars of 1768-74 and 1828–29.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> Contrary to certain popular myths, these Pontic Greek settlers therefore had absolutely nothing to do with those Greeks who had settled in the South Caucasus region in the Hellenistic or Classical Greek period, although they generally did merge with those somewhat smaller Pontic Greek communities who had settled in Georgia, Armenia, and the South Caucasus in general in the late Byzantine and early Ottoman period.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 63.</ref> The main reason Caucasus Greeks preferred to identify themselves exclusively with the later, particularly 19th century waves of Pontic Greek refugees to the South Caucssus rather than also with ancestors who had already settled in the region in the late Byzantine or early Ottoman period is probably because this helped in the presentation of their history as being linked for a longer period to the territories ruled by the [[Empire of Trebizond]], that is [[Pontus (region)|Pontus]] proper, and also helped minimize the historically inconvenient evidence of both substantial non-Greek influences on their culture and extensive intermarriage with the indigenous, non-Hellenic races of the South Caucasus region.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 67.</ref>

According to conservative estimates these eastern Pontic Greeks who collaborated with and/or followed the Russian army into Georgia and southern Russia following the 1828 Russian occupation of [[Erzurum]] and [[Gümüşhane]] had made up around 20% of the entire Greek population of the eastern Black Sea coastline and the Pontic Alps that formed its mountain hinterland.<ref>Papadopoulos, p. 54.</ref> They were subsequently resettled by the Russian Imperial government in the Ukraine and other parts of southern Russia, but also especially [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and (after 1878) Kars Oblast.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 61.</ref> Like those Pontic Greeks who fought for Russia in the 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war, most male Greeks who settled in Russian territory following the 1828-29 war continued to serve in the Russian Imperial army, often bearing their own community's hopes to re-capture more Christian Greek territory from the Muslim Turks on the back of the Russian Empire. Like Georgians, Armenians, and other peoples from the South Caucasus, many Caucasus Greek men fought and lost their lives through service in the Russian army not just in wars against the Ottomans, but also in other campaigns, such as the 1817-1864 [[Caucasian War]], in which Russia sought to impose its rule over the Muslim mountain tribes of the [[north Caucasus]].<ref>Papadopoulos, p. 75.</ref>

==Role in Russian conquests==
 
The [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|1877-78 Russo-Turkish War]] and the [[Treaty of San Stefano]] and [[Treaty of Berlin (1878)|Treaty of Berlin]] that brought it to a close led to the Russian Empire making permanent gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire in north-eastern Anatolia.<ref>Drury, Ian, The Russo-Turkish War of 1877</ref>  These centred around the fortified city of Kars in historical northern Armenia, which Russia now administered as [[Kars Oblast]], i.e. the militarily administered province of Kars, which also included the towns and districts of [[Ardahan]] and [[Sarikamish]]. As in the 1828-29 war, many Greeks of north-eastern Anatolia and Pontus fought in or collaborated with the Imperial Russian Army in the 1877-78 war against the Ottomans, often serving as soldiers and officers in an army that included large numbers of Georgians, Armenians, Ossetians and Cossack, as well as Russians proper - the Georgians and Armenians in particular being represented among the senior ranks.<ref name="Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 64"/> Although the Ottoman province or 'vilayet' of Kars already had several Greek villages dating back to 1830 or sometimes even earlier, most of these later pro-Russian Greeks of north-eastern Ottoman Anatolia settled in Kars province after it was incorporated into the Russian empire in 1878.<ref>Topalidis, 2006</ref>

It was precisely because most of the Greek settlers in Kars Oblast had entered the region with the Russians from the direction of Georgia, that contemporaries - and academics later on - came to define them as '''Caucasus Greeks''' or '''Russianized Pontic Greeks''', in contrast to those Greek who had never left Ottoman-ruled North-eastern Anatolia. Even in Russian occupied Georgia, however, these Greeks had generally lived in the southern areas of the country which - like the Kars-Ardahan region - were part of the Lesser Caucasus highland plateau, rather than among the deep valleys and jagged mountain peaks of the High Caucasus range in northern Georgia. In terms of population, the areas in both Georgia and Kars province inhabited by the Caucasus Greeks tended to be those that also had large concentrations of Armenian population - one well-known product of this Greek-Armenian mix being the famous mystic and theosophist [[George Gurdjieff]]. Another well known, although more recent Caucasus Greek with roots in these areas but born in [[Tbilisi]] was [[Yanis Kanidis]], a Russian PE instructor and hero of the [[Beslan school hostage crisis]] in [[North Ossetia]]. These same areas now in Georgia also had various pockets of Muslims of Turkish and non-Turkish (convert) ethnic origin - though the latter had generally become Turkish in speech and culture.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 43.</ref>
 [[File:Greeks Georgia Batumi.JPG|thumb|Pontic Greek leaders from Georgia]]
The Caucasus Greeks of Kars Oblast were mainly concentrated in around 77 towns and villages as part of official Russian government policy to people a traditionally [[Turkish people|Turkish]], [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]], [[Georgians|Georgian]]-Muslim (here often called [[Chveneburi]]) and [[Laz language|Laz]]-Muslim or Christian but generally non-Orthodox Armenian area with a staunchly pro-Russian Christian Orthodox community.<ref>Koromela, p. 74.</ref> In general they were settled on grassy highland plateaux, such as the Gole/Kiolias plateau of present-day Ardahan province, since these resembled their original lands in the Pontic Alps and later ones they had settled on in Georgia. In towns like Kars, Ardahan, and Sarikamish ethnic Greeks constituted only a small minority (10-15%) of the inhabitants, most of whom were Christian Armenians, Kurdish Muslims, or smaller numbers of Orthodox Georgians, while even many of the mainly ethnic Greek villages still included small numbers of Armenians (including Greek Orthodox Armenians), Georgians, and even Kurds, employed by the Greeks to look after the sheep, cattle, and horses.<ref>Mikhailidis & Athanasiadis, pp. 45-76.</ref> The Caucasus Greeks of Kars Oblast were generally reasonably well educated, every village having its own school, although most were involved in farming, horse breeding, or mining for their livelihoods. A smaller but still significant number did, however, work outside the agricultural and mining sectors. In particular, many pursued careers as regular soldiers and officers in the Russian Imperial Army, in the regional police force,  as clergymen, or even within the provincial Russian administration. Unlike the Pontic Greeks of the Black Sea coastal cities like Trebizond, however, very few Caucasus Greeks were involved in trade.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 42.</ref> 
 
[[File:Chindjovo 006 original.jpg|thumb|Mount [[Falakro]], Drama Prefecture, eastern [[Greek Macedonia]], where many Pontic Greeks and Caucasus Greeks resettled]]
Caucasus Greeks were often multilingual, able to speak, read, and write Greek and Russian and speak Eastern Anatolian Turkish, and sometimes also basic Georgian and Armenian.<ref>Koromela, p. 96.</ref> Although their native language was Greek, generally only the most highly educated - such as scholars, lawyers, members of the Orthodox clergy educated in Russian universities, and other community leaders claiming noble or royal lineage extending back to the [[Empire of Trebizond]] - had more than an intermediate-level knowledge of formal [[Demotic Greek]] and the more classicizing [[Katharevousa]] of the late Byzantine period.<ref>Mikhailidis & Athanasiadis, p. 59.</ref> The majority were restricted to their own variant of Pontic Greek, which had a somewhat larger admixture of Turkish, Georgian, Russian, and Armenian vocabulary than the colloquial form of Greek used in Pontus proper.<ref>Topalidis, 1996, and Koromela & Evert, 1989</ref> However, the Caucasus Greeks had had to become fluent Russian speakers, as a result of the schooling and education policies implemented by the Russian Imperial government, although at home and amongst themselves they continued to favour Greek.<ref>Mikhailidis & Athanasiadis, p. 60.</ref> But Caucasus Greeks were still often conflated or confused with Russians in Kars Oblast because of their use of Russian and worship alongside Russians in the same Orthodox churches as well as their generally Russianized and pro-Russian empire outlook. In fact, one quite popular but stereotyped way local 'Turks' might differentiate Caucasus Greeks from other Pontic Greeks was by stating that the former were "Greeks who had taken the Borshch [soup] from the Russians"!<ref>Kazanoglu, 'Greeks in Kars'.</ref>

The Caucasus Greeks had close social links with the Greek Orthodox Russian settlers of Kars Oblast through worshiping in each other's churches as well as marrying partners of Russian Caucasus origin. These links were closer than those with either non-Orthodox Armenians or Orthodox Georgians, primarily because most of the former were not in communion with the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] while many of the latter were becoming increasingly attracted to Georgian nationalism. However, contacts and intermarriage between Caucasus Greeks and Armenians who were members of the Greek Orthodox church was fairly common, and to a lesser extent also existed between Caucasus Greeks and other Greek Orthodox communities of the South Caucasus, such as [[Georgians]] or [[Ossetians]].<ref>Koromela, p. 53.</ref> Since many of the Turkish, Kurdish, and Indigenous Laz-speaking Muslims from the Kars region had fled westwards into Ottoman territory during and after the 1877-78 war, many other non-Orthodox Christian communities were also resettled there by the Russian administration.<ref>Caucasus Calendar, Introduction.</ref>  These included Russian religious minorities considered "heretical" by the Russian Orthodox Church, such as [[Dukhobors]] and [[Molokans]], who as pacifists did not perform Russian military service and so unlike the Caucasus Greeks, Georgians, and Armenians did not play a significant role in the wars against the Ottomans. Even smaller numbers of [[Caucasus Germans]], [[Estonians]], [[Polish people|Poles]], and [[Lithuanians]], were settled in Kars Oblast, despite none of these communities having any significant historic or cultural links with the [[Transcaucasus]] and [[Eastern Anatolia]], in contrast to the long-standing links Pontic Greeks had always had with the region.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, 1991</ref>

==Contemporary (post-World War I)==
During [[World War I]] most able-bodied Caucasus Greek men again fought for Russia against the Ottoman Empire, usually serving in the [[Russian Caucasus Army (World War I)|Russian Caucasus Army]], which was led by a coterie of senior Russian, Georgian, and Armenian officers. In the final stages of the war, a [[Greek Caucasus Division]] was even established by bringing together Caucasus Greeks from different regiments of the Russian army in the South Caucasus, and whose primary purpose was to help defend ethnic Greek villages in the Kars, Erzerum, and Erzincan regions.

Most Caucasus Greeks left Kars Oblast following the cession of the area back to the Ottoman Empire in 1917, but before the official population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922-23.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 8.</ref> They mainly settled in villages in [[Greek Macedonia]] previously inhabited by Ottoman Muslims, and again generally preferred those situated on grassy plateaux or mountain districts, since these most closely resembled their former home in the South Caucasus. However, like many other Greeks of [[Republic of Pontus|Pontus]] and north-eastern Anatolia, significant numbers of Caucasus Greeks who wanted to remain in what was now Turkish territory at any cost chose to convert to Islam and adopt the Turkish language for public purposes so as to be exempted from the population exchange.<ref>Papadopoulos, 2012.</ref> According to the terms of the population exchange protocol (which was essentially an appendage to the [[Treaty of Lausanne]]) the categories 'Greek' and 'Turk' were defined by religious affiliation rather than ethnicity, resulting in large numbers of [[Greek Muslims]] from Macedonia and Crete being categorized as 'Turkish in soul' and so resettled in the Turkish Aegean and parts of Anatolia.<ref>Koromela, p. 66.</ref> Those Caucasus Greeks who had remained in north-eastern Anatolia, like the many other Pontic Greeks who had also converted to Islam and adopted the Turkish language, subsequently became assimilated into the wider Turkish-Muslim population of the provinces of Trabzon, Sivas, Erzurum, Erzinjan, Kars, and Ardahan.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, 1991.</ref> However, after 1917 many Caucasus Greeks from Kars Oblast, and in particular those who had close Russian family links through intermarriage, also resettled in parts of Southern Russia that already had pre-existing communities of Pontic Greeks descended from earlier waves of refugees from northeastern Anatolia. These Greeks were based mainly in [[Stavropol Krai]], in the foothills of the [[North Caucasus]], where they still make up a significant element of the population (often up to 10%) in both urban and rural areas. They became fully assimilated into modern Russian life and society, although following the dissolution of the Soviet Union they substantially increased their links with Greece - and particularly with northern Greece - through work, trade, or study in their "mother" country and through taking up Greek nationality alongside their Russian one.<ref>Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, p. 86.</ref>

==Caucasus Greeks in contemporary Greek Macedonia==
Most of the Caucasus Greeks of Kars Oblast who had not sided with the Bolsheviks subsequently left for Greece in 1919, before the province was officially re-incorporated into the territory of the new [[Turkey|Turkish Republic]] and the large-scale Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1922-23.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 79.</ref> Most were resettled in [[Kilkis]] province and other parts of central and eastern [[Greek Macedonia]], particularly in villages of the mountainous [[Drama prefecture]] that until 1922 had been inhabited largely by "Turks" (in this case Ottoman Muslims of mainly Bulgarian and Greek Macedonian convert origin).<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, ch. 7.</ref> During the German occupation of Greece (1940–44) and [[Greek Civil War]] of 1943-49 most Caucasus Greek men fought for [[Greek People's Liberation Army|ELAS]], the military wing of [[National Liberation Front (Greece)|EAM]], the leading Greek communist guerrilla organisation that fought against the German occupation.<ref>Woodhouse, 1984</ref> Many in Greece argue that the strong communist affiliations of Greek Macedonia's Pontic Greeks and Caucasus Greeks, most of whom even today continue to support the Greek Communist Party [[KKE]], has never had anything to do with ideology but was actually due to residual pro-Russian sentiment and traditional family expectations, despite the fact that many had grandparents who had not remained in Russian territory precisely because they had not sided with the Bolsheviks.

The communist affiliations of most Caucasus Greeks has also been cited to account for why they often play down or even conceal any previous involvement their ancestors may have had in the Tsarist army or administration during the Russian occupation of the Transcaucasus region.<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 143.</ref> For those communist Caucasus Greeks who, following the 1946-49 [[Greek Civil War]], settled as refugees in the [[Eastern Bloc]], particularly the [[USSR]] and [[Czechoslovakia]], playing down or concealing their community's previous links with the [[Russian Empire]] was an essential tactic to ensure a safe, secure, and flourishing life in a communist state and society. One example of a high ranking Caucasus Greek from Kars Oblast who spent much of his life fighting and propagandizing against Soviet communism, after having fought against the [[Bolsheviks]] with the forces of the [[White movement]], was [[Constantine Kromiadi]].

Caucasus Greeks have generally assimilated well into modern Greek society, being successful within a broad range of trades and professions. They are generally conflated by other Greeks with the Pontic Greeks of Pontus proper, whom many in Greece see as very socially conservative, clan-like, and inward-looking. Otherwise, Caucasus Greeks are often inaccurately described by other Greeks as 'Russo-Pontic [Greeks]' and sometimes even confused with the many ethnic Greeks who came from Georgia and southern Russia in the mid-90s, particularly since they often live in the same parts of Thessaloniki, share a similar Pontic Greek dialect, and tend to have surnames ending in '-dis' (from the Ancient Greek for 'the sons of ... ').<ref>Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, p. 121.</ref> However, it is generally the ethnic Greeks who came to Greek Macedonia from Georgia and southern Russia in the mid-1990s rather than the Caucasus Greeks who came shortly after 1919 that other Greeks often accuse of among other things being involved in organised crime in northern Greece and the wider Balkans and creating a kind of parallel, underground society.

The Caucasus Greeks and Pontic Greeks in general who settled in northern Greece between 1919 and 1923 have, on the other hand, had a lot more time to assimilate into contemporary Greek society than the more recent arrivals from Georgia and southern Russia, and as a consequence have a far better command of standard Modern Greek and awareness of mainstream Greek culture.<ref>Topalidis, p. 82.</ref> The Caucasus Greeks and Pontic Greeks of Greek Macedonia have still managed to preserve some of their unique traditions and have also established many cultural and civil society organisations.  The aspect of Pontic Greek culture most apparent to the outside observer is their traditional food, costume, music, and dance, with those of the Caucasus Greeks reflecting heavier Russian, Georgian, and Armenian influences. For example, the traditional costume of Caucasus Greek women resembles that of southern Russian women, while the men's costume is light grey, in contrast to the black attire worn by Greek men from Pontus proper, which they share with the Muslim Laz of the eastern Pontic Alps.<ref>Topalidis, p. 137.</ref>

==List of settlements in the Russian Transcaucasus with a sizeable population of Greeks==
Although precise figures are difficult to verify, it is likely a total of around 56,350 Greeks lived within Kars Oblast until 1919. The following is a list of the towns and villages in which they lived, given in both Greek and English transliteration. The names of the vast majority of these settlements are evidently of Turkish or Armenian origin in [[Kars Oblast|Kars Oblast’]], of Georgian origin in [[Batum Oblast]] and even many majority-Greek settlements were also inhabited by Christians from other ethnic groups, particularly Orthodox Georgians, Orthodox and/or Gregorian Armenians, and Orthodox and/or “Sectarian” Russians.<ref>Σάββας Καλεντερίδης, “Ανατολικός Πόντος”, 2006.</ref><ref>Ισαάκ Λαυρεντίδη,“Μετοικεσία Καυκασίων 1895-1907”.</ref><ref>Ιωάννης Καλφόγλου Μαρκήσιο-Φωτιάδη, “Οι Έλληνες εν Καυκάσω”, Αθήνα (1908).</ref><ref>Статистика Россійской Имперіи: Перепись 1886 годъ (Statistics of the Russian Empire: Census 1886).</ref><ref>1-й годъ Памятная Книжка и адресъ-календарь КАРССКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ на 1902 годъ, изданіе КАРССКАГО ОБЛАСТНОГО Статистическаго Комитета подъ редакціею Секретаря Комитета С. В. Ермолаева (1° Memorial Book of the Kars Oblast‘ {1902 Edition}, compiled by the Kars Oblast’ Statistical Committee, edited by the Committee Segretar S. V. Ermolaev).</ref><ref>3-й годъ Памятная Книжка и адресъ-календарь КАРССКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ на 1906 годъ, изданіе КАРССКАГО ОБЛАСТНОГО Статистическаго Комитета подъ редакціею Секретаря Комитета С. В. Ермолаева (3° Memorial Book of the Kars Oblast‘ {1906 Edition}, compiled by the Kars Oblast’ Statistical Committee, edited by the Committee Segretar S. V. Ermolaev).</ref><ref>4-й годъ Памятная Книжка и адресъ-календарь КАРССКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ на 1908 годъ, изданіе КАРССКАГО ОБЛАСТНОГО Статистическаго Комитета подъ редакціею Секретаря Комитета С. В. Ермолаева (4° Memorial Book of Kars Oblast‘ {1908 Edition}, compiled by the Kars Oblast’ Statistical Committee, edited by the Committee Segretar S. V. Ermolaev).</ref><ref>5-й годъ Памятная Книжка и адресъ-календарь КАРССКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ на 1910 годъ, изданіе КАРССКАГО ОБЛАСТНОГО Статистическаго Комитета подъ редакціею Секретаря Комитета С. В. Ермолаева (5° Memorial Book of the Kars Oblast‘ {1910 Edition}, compiled by the Kars Oblast’ Statistical Committee, edited by the Committee Segretar S. V. Ermolaev).</ref><ref>LXVII годъ Кавказскій календарь на 1912 годъ, изданъ по распоряженію Намѣстника ЕГО ИМПЕРАТОРСКАГО ВЕЛИЧЕСТВА на Кавказѣ Канцеляріей Намѣстника (67° Almanac of the Caucasus 1912 Edition, published by order of the office of the Viceroy of HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY in the Caucasus).</ref><ref>6-й годъ Памятная Книжка и адресъ-календарь КАРССКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ на 1912 годъ, изданіе КАРССКАГО ОБЛАСТНОГО Статистическаго Комитета подъ редакціею Секретаря Комитета Подполковника Б. С. Экадзе (6° Memorial Book of the Kars Oblast‘ {1912 Edition}, compiled by the Kars Oblast’ Statistical Committee, edited by the Committee Segretar Lieutenant Colonel B. S. Yekadze).</ref><ref>LXX годъ Кавказскій календарь на 1915 годъ, изданъ по распоряженію Намѣстника ЕГО ИМПЕРАТОРСКАГО ВЕЛИЧЕСТВА на Кавказѣ Канцеляріей Намѣстника, подъ редакціей А.А.Эльзенгера и Н.П.Стельмащукa (70° Almanac of the Caucasus {1915 Edition}, published by order of the office of the Viceroy of HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY in the Caucasus, edited by A. A. Ėl’zenger and N. P. Stel’maščuk).</ref>

[[File:A former Caucasus Greek village - Alisofou Koyu today.jpg|thumb|A former Caucasus Greek village - '''Ali-Sofi of the Hellenes''' ([[Alisofu, Selim|Alisofu]]) today.]]

[[File:Xantere village church and school, circa 1890.jpg|thumb|Greek village of '''Khandara''' (now [[Handere, Sarıkamış|Handere]]) church and school, circa 1890]]

A1) '''Villages and settlements with purely Caucasus Greek population in [[Batum Oblast]]''':
# '''Ačkua'''.
# '''Akhalšeni'''.
# '''Dagva of the Hellenes'''.
# '''Kvirike of the Hellenes'''.

A2) '''Towns, villages and settlements with part Greek population in [[Batum Oblast]]''':
# '''Artvin'''.
# '''Batum'''.
# '''Kobulety'''.

B1) '''Villages and settlements with purely or majority Caucasus Greek population in [[Kars Oblast]]''':
# '''Abul’vart'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Khorasan ([[Horasan]]) sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Kurbançayır, Sarıkamış|Kurbançayır köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Абульвартъ ''Abul’vart''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἀμπουλβὰρτ ''Ampoulvàrt'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αμπουλβάρ, Αμπουλβάρτ, Αμπουλμπάρτ, Απουλβάρτ, Απουλπάτ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Աբուրվարդ ''Aburvard''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Abulbard. 
# '''Ali-Sofi of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Alisofu, Selim|Alisofu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Али-Софи греческій ''Ali-Sofi grečeskiy'', to avoid confusion with the not-far Али-Софи туркменскій ''Ali-Sofi turmenskiy'' inhabited by [[Alevism|Alevi Turcomans]].  [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἀλῆ-Σοφῆ ''Alē̂-Sophē̂'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αλή Σοφή, Αλήσοφη, Αλή-Σοφή, Αλίσοφι, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ալիսոֆի ''Alisofi''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Rum Alisofu. 
# '''Ardost'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Akbaba, Kars|Akbaba köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ардостъ ''Ardost''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἁρτός ''Artós'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αρδίστ, Αρντίστ, Αρντόστ, Αρτός, Αρτόστ,etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Արդոստ ''Ardost''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Ardos. 
# '''Arsenyak of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty, nowadays [[Ormanlı, Şenkaya|Ormanlı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Арсенякъ греческій ''Arsenyak grečeskiy'', to avoid confusion with the nearby Арсенякъ турецкій ''Arsenyak turetskiy'' inhabited by Sunni [[Turkish people|Turks]]. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἀρσενιάκ ''Arseniák'', written in many monotonic versions ―Αρσανάκ, Αρσενέκ, Αρσενιά, Αρσενιάκ, Αρσενιάν, Ερσενέκ,etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Արսենյակ ''Arsenyak''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Ersinek. 
# '''Azat'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Azat, Kars|Azat köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Азатъ ''Azat''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: [Ἅγιος?] Ἀζὰτ ''[Hágios?] Azàt'', written in monotonic version as Αζάτ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ազատ ''Azat''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Azat. 
# '''Bagdat of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan, now [[Ovapınar, Ardahan|Ovapınar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Багдатъ греческое ''Bagdat grečeskoe'', to avoid confusion with the nearby Багдатъ турецкое ''Bagdat turetskoe'' inhabited by Sunni [[Turkish people|Turks]], with whom it constituted a single village until 1914. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μπαγτὰτ ''Mpagtàt'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Βαγδάτ, Μπαγδάτ, Μπαγντάτ, Μπαγτάτ, Παγδάτ, Παγντάτ, Παγτάτ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Բաղդատ ''Baghdat''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Bağdat. 
# '''Bardus'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Olti]]/Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Gaziler, Şenkaya|Gaziler köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Бардусъ ''Bardus''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μπαρτούζ ''Mpartoúz'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μπαρδούς, Μπαρντούζ, Μπαρτούς, Παρντούζ, Παρτούζ, Παρτούς,etc. ―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Բարդուս ''Bardus'' and, historically, also Բարտեզ ''Bartez''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Bardız. 
# '''Beberek'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Çetinsu, Ardahan|Çetinsu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Беберекъ ''Beberek''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: …?, written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ζεμπερέκ, Μπεμπερέκ, Πεπερέκ, Πιαπιαριάκ, Πιπερέκ, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Beberek. 
# '''Belyuk-Baš'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Bölükbaşı, Selim|Bölükbaşı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Белюкъ-Башъ ''Belyuk-Baš''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μπελιοὺκ-Μπὰς ''Mpelioùk-Mpàs'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μπελίκ-Μπάς, Μπελιούκ-Μπας, Πελιηπήσκιοϊ, Πελικμπάς, Πελίκπας, Πελίκ-Πάσκιοϊ, Πελιούκ-Πας, Πελιούκ-Πάς,etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Bölükbaşı. 
# '''Bezirgyan-Kečit'''  ~  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Eskigeçit, Selim|Eskigeçit köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Безиргянъ-Кечитъ ''Bezirgyan-Kečit''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μπεζιρκιὰν-γκετσὶτ ''Mpezirkiàn-gketsìt'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μπεζιργκέν-Κετσήτ, Μπεζιργκιάν-γκετσίτ,Μπεζιργκιάν-κατσίτ,Μπεζιργκιάν-Κετσήτ, Πεζεργκάν Κατσίτ, Πεζιργκιάν-κετσίτ, Πεζιρκιάν-γκετσίτ, Πεζιρκιάνκετσιτ, Πεζιρκιάν-Κετσίτ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Բեզիրգանքեչիկ ''Bezirgank’yech’ik''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Bezirgângeçit. 
# '''Čapik lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Aşağıdamlapınar, Selim|Aşağıdamlapınar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чапикъ нижній ''Čapik nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Τσαπὶκ ''Kátō Tsapìk'', written in monotonic version as Κάτω Τσαπίκ or Κάτω Τσιαπίκ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Չափիկ Ներքին ''Ch’ap’ik Nerk’in''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Aşağı Çeplik. 
# '''Čapik upper'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Yukarıdamlapınar, Selim|Yukarıdamlapınar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чапикъ верхній ''Čapik verkhniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἐπάνω (= Ἄνω) Τσαπὶκ ''Epánō (= Ánō) Tsapìk'', written in monotonic version as Άνω Τσαπίκ or Άνω Τσιαπίκ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Չափիկ Վերին ''Ch’ap’ik Verin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yukarı Çeplik. 
# '''Čatakh'''  ~  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Çatak,Sarıkamış|Çatak köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чатахъ ''Čatakh''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Τσατὰχ ''Tsatàk'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Τζιατάχ, Τσατάκ, Τσατάχ, Τσιαδάχ, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Çatak. 
# '''Čermuk lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Kaynak, Şenkaya|Kaynak Aşağı Mahallesi]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чермукъ нижній ''Čermuk nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Τσορμίκ ''Kátō Tsormík'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Κάτω Τσερμίκ, Κάτω Τσιορμίκ, Κάτω Τσορμίκ, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Aşağı Çermik. 
# '''Čermuk upper'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Kaynak, Şenkaya|Kaynak Yukarı Mahallesi]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чермукъ верхній ''Čermuk verkhniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἄνω Τσορμίκ ''Ánō Tsormík'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Άνω Τσερμίκ, Άνω Τσιορμίκ, Άνω Τσορμίκ, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yukarı Çermik. 
# '''Čilakhana'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Çilehane,Kağızman|Çilehane köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чилахана ''Čilakhana''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Τσιλαχανὰ ''Tsilakhanà'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Σιλαχανά, Τζηλαχανέ, Τσιλαχανά, Τσιλεχανέ, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Çilehane. 
# '''Čiplakhly'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Çıplaklı, Selim|Çıplaklı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Чиплахлы ''Čiplakhly''. Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Τσιπλαχλὶ ''Tsiplakhlì'' or Γυμνὸν ''Gumnòn'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example:  Τζηπλαχλή, Τσιπκακλί, Τσιπλαχλή, Τσίπλαχλη, Τσιπλάχλι, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Çıplaklı. 
# '''Demur-Kapi of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Gel’e sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Yenidemirkapı, Göle|Yenidemirkapı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Демуръ-Капи греческій ''Demur-Kapi grečeskiy'', to avoid confusion with the nearby Демуръ-Капи куртинскій ''Demir-Kapu kurtinskiy'', inhabited by Sunni [[Kurdish people|Kurds]]. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ντεμὶρ-Καποῦ ''Ntemìr Kapoū̂'' or Σιδηρᾶς Πύλης ''Sidērā̂s Púlēs'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Δεμίρ Καπού, Δεμίρ-Καπού, Δεμίρ-Καπότ, Νδεμίρ-καπού, Ντεμίρκαπι, Ντεμίρ-Καπού, Ντεμίρκαπου, Τεμίρ Καπού,etc. ―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Demirkapı[-i] Rum. 
# '''Divik'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Yayıklı, Sarıkamış|Yayıklı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Дивикъ ''Divik''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Τιβίκ ''Tivík'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Διβίκ, Ντιβίκ, Τιβίκ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Դիվուկ ''Divuk''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Divik. 
# '''Dort-Kilisa'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Uğurtaş, Göle|Uğurtaş köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Дортъ-Килиса ''Dort-Kilisa''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ντὸρτ-Κιλισὲ ''Ntòrt-Kilisè'' or Τέσσαρες Ἐκκλησίες ''Téssares Ekklēsíes'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Διορτ-Κιλισέ, Δορτ Κίλισα, Δορτ Κλισέ, Δορτ-Κιλισά, Δορτ-Κιλισέ, Ντιορτ Κιλσέ, Ντιόρτκιλισε, Ντορτ Κιλισέ, Ντορτ-κιλισέ, Ντορτ-κιλσέ, Τόρτ Κλισέ, Τόρτ-κιλισσέ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Դոռթ-Քիլիսա ''Dorrt’-K’ilisa'' or  Դորտքիլիա ''Dortk’ilia''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Dörtkilise. 
# '''El-Kečmaz'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Yolgeçmez, Selim|Yolgeçmez köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Елъ-Кечмазъ ''El-Kečmaz''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: …?, written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γελκεσμέζ, Γελκετζμέζ, Γελκετσμέζ, Γελ-Κετσμέζ, Γελκετσμές, Γιόλγκετσμεζ, Γιολ-Κεσμέζ, Γιολκετσμέζ, Ελκετσμέζ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Յոլքեչմազ ''Yolk’yech’maz''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yolgeçmez. 
# '''Engidža'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Yenice, Selim|Yenice köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Енгиджа '' Engidža''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γεϊτζά ''Geïtzá '' or Γενιτζὲ ''Genitzè'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γέγκζα, Γέϊτζα, Γέϊτζε, Γέϊτζια, Γέιτσα, Γενητζέ, Γενιτζέ, Γενιτσέ, Ενκιτζά, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ենգիջա ''Yengija''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yenice. 
# '''Enikey'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Horasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Yeniköy, Sarıkamış|Yeniköy köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Еникей ''Enikey''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γενήκιοϊ ''Genḗkioï'', Γενῆ-κιοϊ ''Genē̂-kioï''or Νεοχῶρι ''Neokhō̂ri'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γενή-κιοϊ, Γενίκιοϊ, Γενί-Κιοϊ, Γενί-κιοϊ, Ενί-Κέϊ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ենիքյոյ ''Yenik’yoy'', renamed in 1918 by [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenian authorities]] Նորաշեն Վերին ''Norashen Verin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]:  Yeniköy. 
# '''Fakhrel’'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Kartalpınar, Ardahan|Kartalpınar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Фахрель ''Fakhrel’''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Φαχρὲλ ''Phakhrèl'', written in monotonic versions as Φαχρέβ or Φαχρέλ. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Fahrel or Fahril. 
# '''Gadži-Vali'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Šuragel’ sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Шурагельскій участокъ ''Šuragel’skiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Hacıveli, Kars|Hacıveli köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Гаджи-Вали ''Gadži-Vali''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Χατζῆ-Βελῆ ''Gatzē̂-Velē̂'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Χατζή Βελή, Χατζή-Βαλή, Χατζή-βελή, Χατζί-Βελή, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Հաջի-Վալի ''Haji-Vali''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]:  Hacıveli. 
# '''Garam-Vartan'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Karaçoban, Kars|Karaçoban köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Гарамъ-Вартанъ ''Garam-Vartan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἀράμ-Βαρτὰν ''Arám-Vartàn''or Χαραμῆ-Βαρτὰν ''Kharamē̂-Vartàn'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αράμ Βαρτάν, Αραμιβαρτάν, Γαράμ-Βαρτάν, Γαραμή Βαρτάν, Χαραμβαρτάν, Χαραμή Βαρτάν, Χαραμή βαρτάν, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Արա-Վարդան ''Ara-Vardan'' or Հարամ-Վարդան ''Haram-Vardan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Hram[i] Vartan. 
# '''Gyulyabert'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan, now [[Çamlıçatak, Ardahan|Çamlıçatak köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Гюлябертъ ''Gyulyabert''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κιουλεπὲρτ ''Kioulepèrt'' or Προσήλιο ''Prosḗlio'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γιηλιαμπέρτ, Γκιουλεμπέρτ, Γκιουλεπέρτ, Γκιουλιαμπέρτ, Γουλιαμπέρτ, Κιουλεπέρ, Κιουλεπέρτ, Κιουλιαπέρτ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Գյուզաբերդ ''Gyuzaberd''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Gölebert. 
# '''Islamzor'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Aydınalan, Kars|Aydınalan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Исламзоръ ''Islamzor''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἰσλαμσόρ ''Islamsór'', written in monotonic versions as Ιασλαμψώρ or Ισλαμσόρ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Իսլամձոր ''Islamdzor''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Arslansor or İslâmsor. 
# '''Ivanpol’'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Mollamustafa, Selim|Mollamustafa köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Молла-Мустафа ''Molla-Mustafa'', renamed in the first 1880s Иванполь ''Ivanpol’''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μολὰ-Μουσταφᾶ ''Molà Moustaphā̂'' or Μουλᾶ Μουσταφᾶ ''Moulā̂ Moustaphā̂'', renamed Ἰβανπὸλ ''Ivanpòl'' or Ἰωαννούπολις ''Iōannoúpolis'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μελά Μουσταφά, Μόλα-Μουσταφά, Μολλά-Μουσταφά, Μολομουσταφά, Μουλά-Μουσταφά, Ιβανπόλ, Ιβάν-πολ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մոլլա-Մուստաֆա ''Molla-Mustafa'', renamed Իվանպոլ ''Ivanpol''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]:  Mollamustafa. 
# '''Kamyšly'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Kamışlı, Selim|Kamışlı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Камышлы ''Kamyšly''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γαμισλὶ ''Gamislì'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γαμισλή, Γάμισλη, Γαμισλί, Καμισλή, Κάμισλη, Καμισλί, Κάμισλι, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Kamışlı. 
# '''Karakilisa'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Gelinalan, Selim|Gelinalan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Каракилиса ''Karakilisa''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Καρὰ-Κιλισὲ ''Karà-Kilisè'' or Μαυροκκλήσηον ''Mavrokklḗsēon'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γαράκιλσα, Γαράκλησε, Καρά Κιλισέ, Καρακηλισά, Καρά-Κιλις, Καρακλής, Καράκλησε, Καράκλισε, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ղարաքիլիսա Վերին ''Gharak’ilisa Verin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Karakilise. 
# '''Karakurt'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Horasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Karakurt, Sarıkamış|Karakurt köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Каракуртъ ''Karakurt''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Καρὰ-Κοὺρτ ''Karà-Koùrt'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γαραγούρτ, Γαρά-Κούρτ, Καρακουρούτ, Καρακούρτ, Καρακούρτ, Καρακούρτ, Καρά-Κούρτetc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ղարաղուտ ''Gharaghut''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Karakurt. 
# '''Karaurgan'''  ~  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Hurasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Karaurgan, Sarıkamış|Karaurgan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Караурганъ ''Karaurgan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Καρὰ-Οὐργάν ''Karà-Ourgán'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γαράουργαν, Γαρά-Ουργάν, Καράοργαν, Καραουργάν, Καράουργαν, Καρά-Ουργάν, Καράουργκαν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Կարաուրգան '' Karaurgan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Karaurgan. 
# '''Kečevan'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Tunçkaya,Kağızman|Tunçkaya köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Кечеванъ ''Kečevan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κετσιβάν ''Ketsiván'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Κετσεβάν, Κετσηβάν, Κετσιβάν, Κιατσιβάν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: … ''Kech‘ravan'' and, historically, also Կեչրոր ''Kech’ror''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Geçivan or Keçivan. 
# '''Ker-ogly'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Horasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Köroğlu, Sarıkamış|Köroğlu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Керъ-оглы ''Ker-ogly''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κιόρογλου ''Kióroglou'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Κέρογλι, Κιόρογλη, Κιόρογλι, Κιόρογλου, Κόρογλου, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Քյոռօղլի ''K’yorroghli'' and, historically, also Զաղին''Zaghin'' and Զեղին''Zeghin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Köroğlu, Zağin or Zeğin. 
# '''Kešar'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Gel’e sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan, now [[Dedekılıcı, Göle|Dedekılıcı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Кешаръ ''Kešar''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κεσὲρ ''Kesèr''. written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Κεσάρ, Κεσέρ, Κιασάρ, Κιασιάρ, Κιασσιάρ, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Keşar. 
# '''Khalif-ogly of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Halefoğlu, Kars|Halefoğlu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Халифъ-оглы греческій ''Khalif-ogly grečeskiy'' until 1909, to avoid confusion with the nearby Халифъ-оглы куртинскій ''Khalif-ogly kurtinskiy'' inhabited by Sunni [[Kurdish people|Kurds]], abolished in 1908 due to the voluntary dispersion of his inhabitants. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Χαλίφ-Ὀγλῆ ''Khalíph-Oglē̂'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Χαλήφ-Ογλού, Χαλήφ-ογλού, Χαλίφ Ογλού, Χαλίφ-Ογλί, Χαλίφογλου, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Խալիֆօղլի ''Khalifoghli''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Halefoğlu. 
# '''Khanakh lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Hanak|Hanak Aşağı Mahallesi]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ханахъ нижній ''Khanak nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Χανὰκ ''Kátō Khanàk'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Κάτω Γανάχ, Κάτω Κανάκ, Κάτω Χανάκ, Κάτω Χανάχ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Խանախ Մեծ ''Khanakh Mets''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Aşağı Hanak. 
# '''Khandara'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Hurasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Handere, Sarıkamış|Handere köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Хандара ''Khandara''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Χαντερὲ ''Khanterè'' written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Χάνδαρα, Χαν-Δερέ, Χάνδερε, Χάνδερε, Χάνταρα, Χαντερέ, Χάντιαρε, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Խանդերե ''Khandere''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Handere. 
# '''Khaskey'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Hasköy,Ardahan|Hasköy köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Хаскей ''Khaskey''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Χάσκιοϊ ''Kháskioï'', written in monotonic version as  Χάσκεϊ or Χάσκιοϊ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Խասքեյ ''Khask’yey''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Hasköy, Hoçuvan or Hoçvan. 
# '''Khaznadar'''  ~  settlement ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: поселокъ ''poselok'') and, from 1914, village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie''), in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Kağızman, Sarıkamış|Kağızman Haznedar mahallesi]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Хазнадаръ ''Khaznadar''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Χαζναντὰρ ''Khaznantàr'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Χαζναδάρ, Χαζναντάρ, Χαζνατάρ, Χασκαντάρ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Խանախ Ներքին ''Khanakh Nerk’in''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Haznedar. 
# '''Khinzrik'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Çağlayan, Kars|Çağlayan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Хинзрикъ ''Khinzrik''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Χιντζιρίκ ''Khintzirík'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Χινζιρίκ, Χινζφίκ, Χιντζιρίκ etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Hınzırik. 
# '''Kizil-Kilisa'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Uzungazi, Sarıkamış|Uzungazi köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Кизилъ-Килиса ''Kizil-Kilisa''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κιζὶλ-Κιλισὲ ''Kizìl-Kilisè'' or Κόκκινη Ἐκκλησία ''Kókkinē Ekklēsía'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γιζίλ-κιλισσέ, Γυζίλ Κλισέ, Κηζήλ-κλησέ, Κιζίλ Κιλίσε, Κιζίλ-Κιλίσα, Κιζίλ-Κιλισέ, Κυζίλ Κλισέ,etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Կզըլքիլիսա ''Kzylk’ilisa'' or Ղզըլքիլիսա ''Ghzylk’ilisa''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Kızılkilise. 
# '''Konk'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Kuzupınarı, Göle|Kuzupınarı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Конкъ ''Konk''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κὸνκ ''Kònk'', written in monotonic versions as Κόγκ or Κόνκ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Կոնք ''Konk’''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Konk. 
# '''Lale Varkenez''' village, now [[Balčeşme köyü]]. Often confused with '''Varkenez''', the current, officially Turkish named village of  [[Yanatlı köyü]].
# '''Lal-ogly'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Laloğlu, Selim|Laloğlu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Лалъ-оглы ''Lal-ogly''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Λάλογλη ''Láloglē'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Λάλογλη, Λάλ-Ογλή, Λάλ-Όγλη, Λάλογλι, Λάλ-Ογλί, Λάλ-Όγλι, Λάλογλου, Λάλ-Ογλού, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Լալօղլի ''Laloghli''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Laloğlu. 
# '''Magaradžik'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Ataköy, Kars|Ataköy köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Магараджикъ ''Magaradžik''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μαγαρατζίκ ''Magaratzík'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μαγαρατζήκ, Μαγαρατζίκ, Μαγαρατσίκ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մաղարաջիկ Վերին ''Magharajik Verin'', renamed in 1918 by [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenian autohorities]] Այրիվան ''Ayrivan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Mağaracık. 
# '''Makhsudžik'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Maksutçuk, Kars|Maksutçuk köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Махсуджикъ ''Makhsudžik''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μασουρτσίκ ''Masourtsík'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μασαρτζίκ, Μασουρτζίκ, Μασουρτζούχ, Μασουρτσίκ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մախսուջիկ Վերին ''Makhsujik Verin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Maksutçuk. 
# '''Mečetly'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Horasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Mescitli, Sarıkamış|Mescitli köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Мечетлы ''Mečetly''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μετζιτλὶ ''Metzitlì'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μετζιτλή, Μετζιτλί, Μετσιτλή, Μέτσιτλη, Μέτσιτλι, Μιάτσιτλη, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Mescitli. 
# '''Medžingert lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Horasan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[İnkaya, Sarıkamış|İnkaya köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Меджингертъ нижній ''Medžingert nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Μεντζιγκέρτ ''Katō Mentzigkért'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example Κάτω Μεντζικέρτ, Κάτω Μετζιγγέρτ, Κάτω Μιτζινγκέρτ, Κάτω Μουζιγκέρτ, Κάτω Μουζινγκέρτ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Միջինբերդ Ստորին ''Mijinberd Storin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]:Micingerd[-ı] Ulya or Yukarı Micingirt. 
# '''Medžingert upper'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Khorosan sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Çamyazı, Sarıkamış|Çamyazı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Меджингертъ верхній ''Medžingert verkhniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἄνω Μεντζιγκέρτ ''Ánō Mentzigkért'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example Άνω Μεντζικέρτ, Άνω Μετζιγγέρτ, Άνω Μιτζινγκέρτ, Άνω Μουζιγκέρτ, Άνω Μουζινγκέρτ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Միջինբերդ Վերին ''Mijinberd Verin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Micingerd[-ı] Süfla or Aşağı Micingirt. 
# '''Merdenek'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]], now [[Göle]]Gel'e/Kiolias. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Гелье ''Gel’e'' or Мерденекъ ''Merdenek''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γκιόλε ''Gkióle '', [Γ]Κιόλια ''[G]Kólia'' or Μερτενέκ ''Mertenék'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γκιόλε, Γκιόλια, Κιόλια, Μερδενέκ, Μερτενέκ, Μερτινίκ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մերդենեկ ''Merdenek'' or Մերռենեկ ''Merrrenek'', renamed in 1918 by [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenian autohorities]] Մարտենիք ''Martenik’'', and, historically, also Կող [ամրոց]''Kogh [amrots’]'' or Կողա [ամրոց]''Kogha [amrots’]''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Mardenik or Merdenik.
# '''Merines lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Aşağıbakraçlı, Şenkaya|Aşağıbakraçlı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Меринесъ нижній ''Merines nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Μερινὶς ''Kátō Merinìs'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Κάτω Μερενές, Κάτω Μερενίζ, Κάτω Μερενίξ, Κάτω Μερινέζ, Κάτω Μερινίξ, Κάτω Μερινίς, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մերինես Ստորին ''Merines Storin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Aşağı Merinis.
# '''Merines upper'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Yukarıbakraçlı, Şenkaya|Yukarıbakraçlı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Меринесъ нижній ''Merines nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἄνω Μερινὶς ''Ánō Merinìs'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Άνω Μερενές, Άνω Μερενίζ, Άνω Μερενίξ, Άνω Μερινέζ, Άνω Μερινίξ, Άνω Μερινίς, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մերինես Վերին ''Merines Verin''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yukarı Merinis.
# '''Muzaret'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Çakırüzüm, Göle|Çakırüzüm köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Мюзаретъ ''Myuzaret''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μουζερέτ ''Mouzerét'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Μεζερέτ, Μουζαράτ, Μουζαρέτ, Μουζερέτ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Մուզարեթ ''Muzaret’''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Muzaret.
# '''Nariman'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Ünlükaya, Oltu|Ünlükaya köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Нариманъ ''Nariman'', renamed Нариманъ греческое  ''Nariman grečeskoe'' in 1915 when, after the [[Erzurum Offensive|liberation of Theodosioupolis]], the Russian Imperial Army conquested Нариманъ турецкое ''Nariman turetskoe'', better known as Идъ ''Id''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ναρμάν ''Narmán'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ναρεμάν, Ναριμάν, Ναρμάν, Νάρμαν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Նարիման ''Nariman'' and, historically, also Նամրավան [Փոքր]''Namravan [P’vok’r]'' and . [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Narman.
# '''Olukhly'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Oluklu, Selim|Oluklu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Олухлы ''Olukhly''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ὀλουχλῆ ''Oloukhlē̂'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ολουγλή, Ολουκλού, Όλουχλη, Ολουχλί, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Օլուխլի ''Olukhli''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Oluklu.
# '''Ortakey'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Ortaköy, Kağızman|Ortaköy köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ортакей ''Ortakey''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ὀρτάκιοϊ ''Ortákioï'', Ὀρτᾶ-κιοϊ ''Ortā̂-kioï'' or Μεσοχῶρι ''Mesokhō̂ri'', written in monotonic versions as Ορτάκιοϊ or Ορτά-Κιοϊ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Օրթաքյոյ ''Ort’ak’yoy''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Ortaköy.
# '''Panžuret'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Olti]]/Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty until 1909, when it was transferred to Tausker sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Таускерскій участокъ ''Tauskerskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty, now [[İnceçay, Şenkaya|İnceçay köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Панжуретъ ''Panžuret''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Παντζαρότ ''Pantzarót'' or Παντζαρώτ ''Pantzarṓt'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Παντζαρότ, Παντζαρώτ, Παντζερότ, Παντζουρέτ, Πατσαρότ, Πατσουρέρ, Πατσουρέτ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: … ''Panchrud''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Pancırot or Pançırud.
# '''Posik'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Olti]]/Ol’ty sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ольтинскiй участокъ ''Ol’tinskiy učastok'') of Ol’ty,now [[Gezenek, Şenkaya|Gezenek köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Посикъ ''Posik''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ποσίκ ''Posík'', written in monotonic versions as Ποσέκ or Ποσίκ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Փոսիկ ''P’vosik''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Posik.
# '''Salut'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Dereyolu, Göle|Dereyolu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Салутъ ''Salut''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σαλοὺτ ''Saloùt'', written in monotonic versions as Σαλιούτ or Σαλούτ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սալուտ ''Salut''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Salot or Salut.
# '''Salut lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Aşağısallıpınar,Sarıkamış|Aşağısallıpınar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Салутъ нижній ''Salut nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Σαλοὺτ ''Katō Saloùt'', written in monotonic versions as Κάτω Σαλιούτ or Κάτω Σαλούτ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սալուտ Ներքին ''Salut Nerk’in''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Aşağı Salut.
# '''Samzalek'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Yeleçli, Göle|Yeleçli köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Самзалекъ ''Samzalek''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ζεμζελέκ ''Zemzelék'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ζαμζελέκ, Ζεμζελέκ, Σεμζελέκ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սազմաչեկ ''Sazmach’yek''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Samzalek or Semzelek.
# '''Šaraf'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now ruined. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Шарафъ ''Šaraf''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σαρὰφ ''Saràph'' or Ἀφρός ''Aphrós'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αφρός, Σαράφ, Σιαράφ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Շարաֆ ''Sharaf''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Şeref.
# '''Sindizgem'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Yalnızçam, Ardahan|Yalnızçam köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Синдизгемъ ''Sindizgem''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σιντισκὸμ ''Sintiskòm'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example Σινδιζκόμ, Σινδισκόμ, Σιντιζκώμ, Σιντισγόν, Σιντισκέμ, Σιντισκόμ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սինդիզգեմ ''Sindizgem''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Sindizkom.
# '''Subatan of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Šuragel’ sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Шурагельскій участокъ ''Šuragel’skiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Subatan, Kars|Subatan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Субатанъ греческій ''Subatan grečeskiy'', to avoid confusion with the nearby Субатанъ мусульманскій ''Subatan musul’manskiy'', inhabited by Sunni [[Turkish people|Turks]] and Sunni [[Kurdish people|Kurds]], with whom it constituted a single village until 1903. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σουμπατὰν ''Soumpatàn'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Σουμπατάν, Σούμπαταν, Σουπατάν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սուբոտան ''Subotan'', renamed in 1918 by [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenian authorities]] Վարդաշեն ''Vardashen''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Subatan.
# '''Syrbasan'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Khorosan sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Sırbasan, Sarıkamış|Sırbasan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Сырбасанъ ''Syrbasan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σουρπασὰν ''Sourpasàn'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example Σιρπασάν, Σουρμπασάν, Σούρμπασαν, Σουρπασάν, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սրբասան ''Srbasan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Sırbasan.
# '''Takhtakran'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Tahtakıran, Göle|Tahtakıran köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Тахтакранъ ''Takhtakran''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ταχταγράν ''Takhtagrán'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ταχτάγ-γραν, Ταχταγιρά, Ταχταγράν, Ταχτακηράν, Ταχτά-κηράν, Ταχτακιράν, Ταχτάκιραν, Ταχτακράν, Ταχταουράν, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Tahtakıran.
# '''Teknally of the Hellenes'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Tekneli, Kars|Tekneli köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Текналы греческое ''Teknaly grečeskoe'', to avoid confusion with the nearby Текналы мусульманское ''Teknaly musul’manskoe'', inhabited by Sunni [[Turkish people|Turks]] and Sunni [[Kurdish people|Kurds]], with whom it constituted a single village until 1914. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Τεκνελῆ ''Teknelē̂'', written in monotonic versions as Τεκνελή. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Թաքնալի ''T’ak’nali''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Tekneli. 
# '''Torokhev lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in [[Ardahan]] sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Ардаганскiй участокъ ''Ardaganskiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Çimenkaya, Ardahan|Çimenkaya köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Торосхевъ нижній ''Toroskhev nižniy''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κάτω Τοροσχὲβ ''Katō Toroskhèv'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example Κάτω Τοροσκέβ, Κάτω Τοροσκέφ, Κάτω Τοροσκώβ, Κάτω Τοροσκώφ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Թորոսխև Ներքին ''T’voroskhev Nerk’in''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Aşağı Toreshev. 
# '''Tuygun'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Tuygun, Selim|Tuygun köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Туйгунъ ''Tuygun''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Τουϊγοὺν ''Touïgoùn'' or Τουϊγοῦν ''Touïgoū̂n'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Τοϊγούν, Τουγιγκούν, Τουιγούν, Τουϊγούν, etc.―. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Tuygun. 
# '''Turkašen'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Yiğitkonağı, Göle|Yiğitkonağı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Туркашенъ '' Turkašen''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: …?, written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Τουρκασέν, Τουρκασόν, Τουρκεσόν, Τουρκεσσιέν, Τουρκιασσέν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Թուրքաշեն ''T’urk’ashen''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Türkaşen or Türkeşen. 
# '''Uč-Kilisa'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Yavuzlar, Göle|Yavuzlar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Учъ-Килиса ''Uč-Kilisa''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Οὔτς-Κιλισὲ ''Oúts-Kilisè'' or Τρεῖς Ἐκκλησίες ''Treī̂s Ekklēsíes'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ουστ-κιλισέ, Ουτζ Κίλισα, Ουτζ-Κιλισέ, Ούτσι Κελσέ, Ουτσ-Κιλισά, Ουτς-Κιλισέ, Ούτσκιλισε, Ουτσ-κιλισσέ, Ουτς-Κλισέ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Ուչ-Քիլիսա ''Uch’-K’ilisa''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Üçkilise. 
# '''Varkenez'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селен Yanallenie) in the [[Göle]]/Gel’e/Kiolia sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of [[Ardahan]],now [[Yanatlı, Göle|Yanatlı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Варгенисъ ''Vargenis''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Βαρκενὲς ''Varkenes'', written in many monotonic versions ― for example: Βαργενέζ, Βαργενίς, Βαργκενές, Βαργκενίς, Βαρκενέζ, Βαρκενές, etc. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Վարգինիս ''Varginis''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: ''Varginis''. The village now has a mixed Kurdish and Turkish population, originally from southern and central Anatolia, who still prefer to use the original Greco-Armenian name instead of the post-1950 Turkish ''Yanatlı''. Some of the current inhabitants claim an even older spelling had actually been with 't' rather than 'k'/'g', i.e., ''Vartenez''.
# '''Verišan'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Gürbüzler, Selim|Gürbüzler köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Веришанъ ''Verišan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Βερισὰν ''Verisàn'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Βερισάν, Βερισιάν, Βερισσάν, etc.—. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Verişan. 
# '''Vezinkey'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Ölçülü, Kars|Ölçülü köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Везинкей ''Vezinkey''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Βεζίνκιοϊ ''Vezínkioï'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Βεζίν Κιοϊ, Βεζίνκεϊ, Βεζίνκιοϊ, Βεζίν-κιοϊ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Վիզինքյոյ ''Vizink’yoy'', renamed in 1918 by [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenian autohorities]] Վժան ''Vzhan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Vezin[köy]. 
# '''Yagbasan'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Yağıbasan, Selim|Yağıbasan köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ягбасанъ ''Yagbasan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γιὰγ-Πασάν ''Giàg-Pasán'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γιαγμπασάν, Γιαγ-Μπασάν, Γιάγμπασαν, Γιαγπασάν, Γιαγπασάν, Γιαγ-Πασάν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Յաղբասան ''Yaghbasan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]:  Yağıbasan. 
# '''Yalaguz-Čam'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kagyzman sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Кагызманскій участокъ ''Kagyzmanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Yalnızçam, Selim|Yalnızçam köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ялагузъ-Чамъ ''Yalaguz-Čam''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γιαλαούζ-Τσάμ ''Gialaoúz-Tsám'' or Μονοπεύκη ''Monopeúkē'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γιαλαγούζ-Τσιάμ, Γιαλαγούτσιαμ, Γιαλαούζ τζαμί, Γιαλαούζ-τσαμ, Γιαλαούτσαμ, Γιαλασίζ-Τσαμ, Γιαούζ-Τσάμ, Γιόλαγουζτσαμ, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Յալաղուզչամ ''Yalaghuzch’am''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yalnızçam. 
# '''Yemirkhan'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Sarıgüney, Selim|Sarıgüney köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Эмирханъ ''Ėmirkhan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἐμὶρ- Χάν ''Emìr-Khán'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αμιρχάν, Αμίρ-Χάν, Εμίρ-Χάν, Εμιρχάν, etc.―. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Էմերխան ''Emerkhan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Emirhan or Kârcık. 
# '''Zalladža '''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Darboğaz, Selim|Darboğaz köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Залладжа ''Zalladža''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ζελετζά ''Zeletzá'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Ζάλατζα, Ζέλετζε, Ζέλετσα, Ζέλετσε, Ζιάλατσα, Ζιάλιατσια, etc.—. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Zellice.

B2) <u>'''Towns, villages and settlements in [[Kars Oblast]] in which Caucasus Greeks made up a minority of the inhabitants'''</u>:
# '''Akhkoz'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Khorosan sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Camuşlu,Kağızman|Camuşlu köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ахкозъ ''Akhkoz''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἀτκὸς ''Atkòs'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Άτγκιοζ, Άτκιοζ, Άτκιος, Ατκόζ, Ατκός, etc.―.
# '''ARDAGAN'''  ~  town ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: мѣстечко ''městečko''),now [[Ardahan]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ардаганъ ''Ardagan''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ἀρταχὰν ''Artakhàn'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Αρδαγκάν, Αρδαχάν, Αρνταχάν, Αρταχάν, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Արդահան ''Ardahan'', and, historically, also Արտահան ''Artahan'', Արտան ''Artan'', Արտան(ի) ''Artan(i)'', Արտատաքան Հուր ''Artatak’an Hur'', Քաշաց բերդ ''K’ajatun'', Քաջատուն ''K’ashats’ berd'', Քաջաց ցիխե ''K’ajats’ ts’ikhe'', Քաջաց քաղաք ''K’ajats’ k’aghak’'' and Քաջթաքալաքի ''K’ajt’ak’alak’i''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Ardahan.
# '''Begli-Akhmed'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in Kars sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Карсскій участокъ ''Karsskiy učastok'') of Kars,now [[Benliahmet, Selim|Benliahmet köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Бегли-Ахмедъ ''Begli-Akhmed''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Μπεγλῆ-Ἀχμέτ ''Mpeglē̂-Akhmét'', written in monotonic version as Μπεγλή–Αχμέτ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Բեգլի-Ահմեդ ''Begli-Ahmed''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Benliahmet.
# '''Eddykilisa'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Yenigazi, Sarıkamış|Yenigazi köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Еддыкилиса ''Eddykilisa''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Γεντὶ-Κιλισὲ ''Gentì-Kilisè'' or Ἑπτά Ἐκκλησίες ''Heptá Ekklēsíes'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Γεντί-Κιλισά, Γεντί-Κιλισέ, Γεντί-κιλισσέ, Γεντί-Κιλσέ, Γεντί-Κλισέ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Եդդիքիլիսա ''Yeddik’ilisa''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Yedikilise.
# '''KAGYZMAN'''  ~  town ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: мѣстечко ''městečko''), nowadays [[Kağızman]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Кагызманъ ''Kagyzman''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Καγισμὰν ''Kagysmàn'', written in monotonic version as Καγισμάν or Καγκισμάν. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Կաղզվան ''Kaghzvan'', and, historically, also Աղզևանի''Aghzevani'', Երասխաձորի բերդ ''Yeraskhadzori berd'', Կաղզման ''Kaghzman'', Կաղզովան ''Kaghzovan'' and Կաղըզվան ''Kaghyzvan''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Kağızman.
# '''KARS'''  ~  city ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: городъ ''gorod''),now [[Kars]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Карсъ ''Kars''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Κὰρς ''Kàrs'', written in monotonic version as Κάρς or Kαρσούντα. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]:  Կարս ''Kars'' and, historically, also Կարք ''Kark’'' and Ղարս ''Ghars''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Kars.
# '''Novo-Selim'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Selim (District), Kars|Selim]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Селимкей ''Selimkey'', renamed in the first 1880s Ново-Селимъ '' Novo-Selim''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σελίμκιοϊ ''Selímkioï'', renamed Νόβο-Σελὶμ ''Nóvo-Selìm'', written in monotonic version as Σελίμκιοϊ, Νοβοσελίμ or Νόβο-Σελίμ. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Նոր-Սելիմ ''Nor-Selim''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Selim[köy].
# '''Okam'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Gel’e sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Гельскій участокъ ''Gel’skiy učastok'') of Ardagan,now [[Çayırbaşı, Göle|Çayırbaşı köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Окамъ ''Okam''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ὀκάμ ''Okám'', written in monotonic version as Οκάμ. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: [H]okam.
# '''OL’TY'''  ~  town ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: мѣстечко ''městečko'') now [[Oltu]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Ольты ''Olty''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ὄλτι ''Ólti'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Όλτη, Όλτι, Όλτου, Όλτυ, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Օլթի ''Olt’i'', and, historically, also Ողթիկ ''Voght’ik'' and Ուղտիք ''Ughtik’''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Oltu.
# '''Sarykamyš lower'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') and, from 1916, town ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: мѣстечко ''městečko''), in the Soganli sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Соганлугскій участокъ ''Soganlugskiy učastok'') of Kars, nowadays [[Sarıkamış]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Сарыкамышъ нижній ''Sarykamyš nižniy'' and, from 1916, simply Сарыкамышъ ''Sarykamyš''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Σαρῆ-Καμὶς ''Sarē̂-Kamìs'', written in many monotonic versions ―for example: Σαρή-Καμις, Σαρήκαμίς, Σαρικαμίς, Σαρίκαμις, Σαρί-Καμίς, etc.—. [[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Սարիղամիշ ''Sarighamish''. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Sarıkamış.
# '''Zyak'''  ~  village ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: селеніе ''selenie'') in the Khorosan sub-district ([[Reforms of Russian orthography|old Russian]]: Хоросанскій участокъ ''Khorosanskiy učastok'') of Kagyzman, nowadays [[Sırataşlar, Sarıkamış|Sırataşlar köyü]]. [[Reforms of Russian orthography|Old Russian]]: Зякъ ''Zyak''. [[Katharevousa|Official Greek]]: Ζιάκ ''Ziák'' or Ὁλιανά ''Olianá'', written in monotonic versions as Ολιανά. [[Modern Turkish|Turkish]]: Zayak or Zek.

==People==
*[[Ivan Savvidis|Ioánnis Savvídis]], Russian businessman
*[[Filaret Galchev|Filáretos Kaltsídis]], Russian businessman
*[[Theodore Kotanov]], Hero of The Soviet Union during WW2
*[[Theohar Kesidi]], Professor of History
*[[Mikhail Afanasov]], Russian politician
*[[Vladimir Kaishev]], Russian businessman
*[[Yanis Kanidis|Giánnis Kanídis]], Russian physical education teacher
*[[George Gurdjieff|Geórgios Georgiádis]], Greek mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer
*[[Fyodor Yurchikhin]], Russian cosmonaut
*Saint [[George of Drama|George Karslidis of Drama]], Greek Elder
*[[Kakhi Kakhiashvili]], Georgian-Greek weightlifter
*[[Omari Tetradze|Ómiros Iosifídis]], professional footballer.
*[[Pamphylia Tanailidi|Pamfylía Tanaïlídi]], Azerbaijani actress
*[[Sergey Merkurov]], Armenian-Greek sculptor
*[[Vladimir Triandafillov|Vladímiros Triantáfyllo]], Soviet military commander and theoretician
*[[Chrysanthos Theodoridis|Chrýsanthos Theodorídis]], Greek singer
*[[Eduard Sharmazanov]], Armenian-Greek politician

== See also ==
* [[Greeks in Armenia]]
* [[Greeks in Azerbaijan]]
* [[Greeks in Georgia]]
* [[Greeks in Russia and Ukraine]]

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* Acherson, Neal, 'Black Sea' (Jonathan Cape, London, 1995).
* Anderson, A. M., 'The Eastern Question' (1967).
* Browning, Robert, 'The Byzantine Empire' (1980).
* Caucasus Calendar, 1912 (British Government War Office Publication, 1914).
* Coene, Frederik, 'The Caucasus - An Introduction', (2011)
* Drury, Ian, The Russo-Turkish War of 1877 (1994).
* Eloyeva, FA, 'Ethnic Greek Group of Tsalka and Tetritskaro (Georgia)', Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and Practice of Linguistic (1994).
* Gocha, R. Tsetskhladze 'Greek Colonization of the Eastern Black Sea Littoral (Colchis)',(1992).
* Koromela, Marianna and Evert, Lisa,'Pontos-Anatolia : northern Asia Minor and the Anatolian plateau east of the upper Euphrates : images of a Journey', (1989).
* Mikhailidis, Christos & Athanasiadis, Andreas, 'A Generation in the Russian Caucasus'- in Greek, Γεννηθείς εις Καύκασον Ρωσίας (Inthognomon, 2007).
* Morison, John, Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History (Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress, 2000)
* Papadopoulos, Stephanos, 'Black Sea' (Kastaniotis Publications, 2012).
* Soteriou, Dido, 'Farewell Anatolia' (Kedros, 1996).
* Topalidis, Sam, 'A Pontic Greek History' (2006).
* Woodhouse, C. M. 'The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949' (1984).
* Xanthopoulou-Kyriakou, Artemis, 'The Diaspora of the Greeks of the Pontos: Historical Background', Journal of Refugee Studies, 4, (1991).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019211850/http://www.arts.yorku.ca/hist/tgallant/documents/xanthopoulou-kyriakouponticmigrationtomacedonia.pdf] (article on migration of Pontic Greeks from Russian South Caucasus to Greek Macedonia, between 1897 and 1919)
*http://www.academia.edu/4067183/ANTON_POPOV_From_Pindos_to_Pontos_the_Ethnicity_and_Diversity_of_Greek_Communities_in_Southern_Russia

== External links ==
* http://pontosworld.com/
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019211850/http://www.arts.yorku.ca/hist/tgallant/documents/xanthopoulou-kyriakouponticmigrationtomacedonia.pdf] (article on migration of Pontic Greeks from Russian South Caucasus to Greek Macedonia, between 1897 and 1919)
* https://www.academia.edu/4067183/ANTON_POPOV_From_Pindos_to_Pontos_the_Ethnicity_and_Diversity_of_Greek_Communities_in_Southern_Russia
* http://kafkasios-pontokomitis.blogspot.co.uk/ ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215155204/http://kafkasios-pontokomitis.blogspot.co.uk/ |date=2013-12-15 )) (information and old photos of Caucasus Greek villages and people - in Greek)
* https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caucasus-Greeks/555808977783530 (Facebook page for links and old photos of Caucasus Greek villages and people - in English)
* http://kars1918.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/kilkis-kars/ (Blog on Caucasus Greeks in Kars Oblast by community representative from Kilkis, Greek Macedonia)
* https://www.academia.edu/4067183/ANTON_POPOV_From_Pindos_to_Pontos_the_Ethnicity_and_Diversity_of_Greek_Communities_in_Southern_Russia
* http://pontos-patridamou.blogspot.co.uk/ very useful site on east Pontic/Caucasus Greeks (in Greek)
* http://rga.revues.org/2092 - Michel Bruneau, 'The Pontic Greeks: from Pontus to the Caucasus' (article in English)

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