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    How many Greeks are islanders? What percent of the total Greek population?

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    40% approximately

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    Most Greeks have Greek island ancestry. I am a Sarakatsani culturally.
    I have ancestry from Thasos (North Aegean Islands) that probably migrated there from Greek Thrace; my surname is most populous in Epirus and Naxos Island.

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    Quote Originally Posted by catgeorge View Post
    Most Greeks have Greek island ancestry. I am a Sarakatsani culturally.
    I have ancestry from Thasos (North Aegean Islands) that probably migrated there from Greek Thrace; my surname is most populous in Epirus and Naxos Island.
    I heard Sarakatsani have Bulgarian-sounding surnames. Is this true?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abriekman View Post
    I heard Sarakatsani have Bulgarian-sounding surnames. Is this true?
    Not even close.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hahns View Post
    40% approximately
    More like 20% or 2,000,000 out of 10,000,000

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    Many people in the mainland, like in Athens, have roots from the islands. Same is true for many Greeks overseas. So it is hard to say. The island population is around 20% today, but perhaps 35% of the Greek population are islanders.

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    Ionian Islands 207,855
    Cyclades 126,786
    Crete 634,930
    Dodecanese 200,452
    North Aegean 221,098
    Euboea 191,206
    Sporades 13,798

    =1596125

    Or 15.31% of 10423054.

    However, as mentioned there has been internal migration for ages, it's impossible to not find or even fight a a Cretan around Athens. There are also some smaller-time migrations to the islands, I have family living in Sporades from Thessaly and I know of Epirots who have moved to Ionian islands or many people who have moved to Chalcis, Euboea. Many Asia Minor Greeks also live in North-Aegean and Dodecanese, most of them hail from coastal Anatolia but some of them hail from Pontus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faklon View Post
    Ionian Islands 207,855
    Cyclades 126,786
    Crete 634,930
    Dodecanese 200,452
    North Aegean 221,098
    Euboea 191,206
    Sporades 13,798

    =1596125

    Or 15.31% of 10423054.

    However, as mentioned there has been internal migration for ages, it's impossible to not find or even fight a a Cretan around Athens. There are also some smaller-time migrations to the islands, I have family living in Sporades from Thessaly and I know of Epirots who have moved to Ionian islands or many people who have moved to Chalcis, Euboea. Many Asia Minor Greeks also live in North-Aegean and Dodecanese, most of them hail from coastal Anatolia but some of them hail from Pontus.
    Is there a breakdown by every single island? BTW, I know that some islands today have much smaller population than in the past.

    Also there are for example many Greek immigrants from Kythera in Australia & Canada today, IIRC. More than remained in Kythera:

    https://neoskosmos.com/en/17412/kyth...ralian-island/

    "It is estimated that there are at least 60,000 people of Kytherian descent living in Australia"

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