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Vallahades ( ) or Valaades ( Βαλαάδες ) were a Greek -speaking, Muslim population who lived along the River Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia , in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena . They numbered about 17,000 in the early 20th century. They are a frequently referred-to community of late- Ottoman Empire converts to Islam , because unlike most other such communities of Greek Muslims in Ottoman Macedonia the Vallahades retained many aspects of their Greek culture and continued to speak Greek for both private and public purposes. Most other Greek converts to Islam from Ottoman Macedonia, Thrace , and Epirus generally adopted the Turkish language and culture and thereby assimilated into mainstream Ottoman society.1"Young Greeks at the Mosque" ( Jean-Léon Gérôme , oil on canvas, 1865); this oil painting portrays Greek Muslim recruits into the Ottoman Janissary corps at prayer in a mosque Haslett, 1927 See Hasluck, 'Christianity and Islam under the Sultans', Oxford, 1929.2
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v t e The Vallahades or Valaades (Βαλαάδες) were a Greek -speaking, Muslim population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Macedonia , in and around Anaselitsa and Grevena . They numbered about 12,000.
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The Vallahades ( ) or Valaades ( Βαλαάδες ) were a Greek -speaking, Muslim population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia , in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena . They numbered about 17,000 in the early 20th century. They are a frequently referred-to community of late- Ottoman Empire converts to Islam , because, like the Cretan Muslims , and unlike most other communities of Greek Muslims , the Vallahades retained many aspects of their Greek culture and continued to speak Greek for both private and public purposes. Most other Greek converts to Islam from Macedonia , Thrace , and Epirus generally adopted the Turkish language and culture and thereby assimilated into mainstream Ottoman society. "Young Greeks at the Mosque" ( Jean-Léon Gérôme , oil on canvas, 1865); this oil painting portrays Greek Muslim recruits into the Ottoman Janissary corps at prayer in a mosque Haslett, 1927 See Hasluck, 'Christianity and Islam under the Sultans', Oxford, 1929.
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The Vallahades ( ) or Valaades ( ) were a Muslim Macedonian Greek population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia , in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena . They numbered about 17,000 in the early 20th century. They are a frequently referred-to community of late- Ottoman Empire converts to Islam , because, like the Cretan Muslims , and unlike most other communities of Greek Muslims , the Vallahades retained many aspects of their Greek culture and continued to speak Greek for both private and public purposes. Most other Greek converts to Islam from Macedonia , Thrace , and Epirus generally adopted the Ottoman Turkish language and culture and thereby assimilated into mainstream Ottoman society.
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Greek-speaking Muslim population Vallahades in Vrostiani, 1923 The Vallahades ( Greek : Βαλαχάδες ) or Valaades ( Greek : Βαλαάδες ) are a Greek-speaking Muslim population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia , in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena . They numbered about 17,000 in the early 20th century. They are a frequently referred-to community of late- Ottoman Empire converts to Islam , because, like the Cretan Muslims , and unlike most other communities of Greek Muslims , the Vallahades retained many aspects of their Greek culture and continued to speak Greek for both private and public purposes. Most other Greek converts to Islam from Macedonia , Thrace , and Epirus generally adopted the Ottoman Turkish language and culture and thereby assimilated into mainstream Ottoman society.
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greek-speaking muslim population who lived along the river haliacmon in southwest greek macedonia
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