Urum people

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The Urum people are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group, historically associated with Greek Orthodox communities in regions such as Crimea and the Caucasus.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
country Georgia
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine
culturalSphere Greek cultural sphere
Turkic cultural sphere
diaspora Georgia NERFINISHED
Greece NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
Turkey NERFINISHED
Ukraine NERFINISHED
ethnicity Turkic-speaking people
ethnoLinguisticFeature Turkic-speaking Greeks
heritage Black Sea Greek heritage
Byzantine Christian tradition
historicallyAssociatedWith Crimean Greeks NERFINISHED
Greek Orthodox communities
Pontic Greeks NERFINISHED
historicalRegion Crimean Peninsula NERFINISHED
South Caucasus NERFINISHED
language Urum language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Turkic languages
minorityStatus ethnic minority in Georgia
ethnic minority in Russia
ethnic minority in Ukraine
notableLanguageFeature Oghuz-type Turkic dialect
region Caucasus
Crimea NERFINISHED
Donetsk Oblast NERFINISHED
Mariupol area NERFINISHED
Tsalka region of Georgia NERFINISHED
relatedGroup Crimean Tatars NERFINISHED
Gagauz people NERFINISHED
Pontic Greeks NERFINISHED
Turks NERFINISHED
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Greek Orthodox Christianity NERFINISHED
religiousAffiliation Eastern Orthodox Church NERFINISHED
religiousLanguageTradition use of Church Slavonic in liturgy
use of Greek in liturgy
scriptHistoricallyUsed Cyrillic alphabet NERFINISHED
Greek alphabet NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet NERFINISHED
selfIdentification Greek Orthodox NERFINISHED
Greek by religion
traditionalReligion Christianity NERFINISHED

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Turkic peoples hasEthnicSubgroup Urum people