As with Pontic Greeks proper , those Eastern Anatolia Greeks who migrated eastwards into Kars province , Georgia , Armenia and Southern Russia between the early Ottoman period and 1829 generally assimilated into the branch of Pontic Greeks usually called Caucasian Greeks . Those who remained and retained their Greek identity into the early 20th century were either deported to the Kingdom of Greece as part of the Exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923-4 or massacred in the Greek Genocide that occurred after the larger Armenian Genocide in the same part of Anatolia
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Pontic Greeks