The most European West Asian country

[Frowning Man]

I am more related with Armenian culture than Georgian. And i know many who are culturally related to Georgians(Lazes/Black Sea Turks).

I don't think the Lazes are so much like Georgians in culture or mentality. I'm talking about modern Laz. Their ancient ancestors, I am sure, were very similar to us mentally and culturally. I think they are all the more unlike us mountain Georgians. I think they have a strong Turkish or Greek influence, I'm talking about the mentality.

[brennus dux gallorum]

Socio-culturally: cyprus (technically 100% European)-israel- Georgia- Armenia

Genetically: israel- cyprus- Turkey

[brennus dux gallorum]

I don't think the Lazes are so much like Georgians in culture or mentality. I'm talking about modern Laz. Their ancient ancestors, I am sure, were very similar to us mentally and culturally. I think they are all the more unlike us mountain Georgians. I think they have a strong Turkish or Greek influence, I'm talking about the mentality.

By Greek i guess you mean black sea/pontic/trabzon Greeks, cause i dont think that mainland Greeks have anything in common with people around caucasus or west asia in general

[Frowning Man]

By Greek i guess you mean black sea/pontic/trabzon Greeks, cause i dont think that mainland Greeks have anything in common with people around caucasus or west asia in general

By the Greeks, I meant exactly the Black Sea Greeks. I don't know anything about the Greeks from Greece. Only saw them several times.

[user_]

You are from Westasia, you should know that...

I can say that Georgisn culture and mentality is more like eastern Europe, than muslim west Asia. That's not just because of Orthodox church.
I can't answer for Armenia, but I guess they har same feelings. At least post Soviet Armenians.

[Tauromachos]

By Greek i guess you mean black sea/pontic/trabzon Greeks, cause i dont think that mainland Greeks have anything in common with people around caucasus or west asia in general

Greeks have some similarities and overlapps with all their neighbours and this includes Turkey
and of course Balkans too

[Tauromachos]

I don't think the Lazes are so much like Georgians in culture or mentality. I'm talking about modern Laz. Their ancient ancestors, I am sure, were very similar to us mentally and culturally. I think they are all the more unlike us mountain Georgians. I think they have a strong Turkish or Greek influence, I'm talking about the mentality.

Laz are most similar to Pontic Greeks by customs like dances and music

Language is related to Georgian from what i know

[brennus dux gallorum]

Greeks have some similarities and overlapps with all their neighbours and this includes Turkey
and of course Balkans too

The Greeks of anatolia yes, which makes sense as they lived in what is Turkey today.

But the majority of Greeks from mainland do not have any overlap with people of Turkey and west asia in general

Balkans are a completely different story from Turkey. If we exclude the islamic parts of the peninsula, Balkans are part of eastern Europe, and of course Greeks of mainland have overlap with balkans. In fact Greek mainlanders are intermediate to Balkans and southwest Europe from most of aspects

Anyway, this thread is not about Greece, its about west asia, so if there is a part of Greeks which is relevant to the topic then this is the Greeks with recent ancestry from west asia, not all of Greeks

Laz are most similar to Pontic Greeks by customs like dances and music

Language is related to Georgian from what i know

And genes, to be fair:

[Tauromachos]

The Greeks of anatolia yes, which makes sense as they lived in what is Turkey today.

I'm not talking about the Greeks who lived there only

Its about exactly what i said,
Turkey is an immediate neighbour of Greece

But the majority of Greeks from mainland do not have any overlap with people of Turkey and west asia in general

They do have

Balkans are a completely different story from Turkey. If we exclude the islamic parts of the peninsula, Balkans are part of eastern Europe, and of course Greeks of mainland have overlap with balkans. In fact Greek mainlanders are intermediate to Balkans and southwest Europe from most of aspects.

Its not completly different both Balkans and Turkey were under the banner of Byzantium at least more than 500 years

Anyway, this thread is not about Greece, its about west asia,

Yes i know,you were the first Greek poster who mentioned Greeks here by the way

so if there is a part of Greeks which is relevant to the topic then this is the Greeks with recent ancestry from west asia, not all of Greeks

No part of Greeks is relevant to this topic if i read the title correctly

[brennus dux gallorum]

I'm not talking about the Greeks who lived there only

Its about exactly what i said,
Turkey is an immediate neighbour of Greece



They do have



Its not completly different both Balkans and Turkey were under the banner of Byzantium at least more than 500 years

I know what you said and i said that from this aspect you are wrong. The non-anatolian Greeks overlap from absolutely no aspect with Turkey, and the same goes for most of Balkans. In other words, Greek cyclades, epirus or Peloponnese do not overlap with Turkey from any aspect. They rather overlap with southwest Europe and Balkan Europe only

Turkey today has nothing to do with Byzantine anatolia, its part of west Asia and he islamic world. Some would say middle east as well, but i will disagree, since middle eastern countries do not have central asian and caucasian influences which turkey has (it makes sense, since the founders of Turkey were central asian). Balkans, its Christian part in particular combine slavic and byzantine identity, two things completely alien to Turks

Yes i know,you were the first Greek poster who mentioned Greeks here by the way




No part of Greeks is relevant to this topic if i read the title correctly

I wasnt. I did it when someone else mentioned Greeks first, wrongly generalizing them which he admitted himself one comment later

There are two Greek populations relevant here: pontic and central anatolian Greeks. The rest of Greece is not relevant to west asia, even sikeliot would admit that