Neighbors of Greeks in the Nadazov Region
No community exists in isolation, and its culture develops in interaction with other ethnic groups living in the immediate vicinity. In the subsection of the bibliography dedicated to the Crimean period of the history of the Mariupol Greeks, we have already included publications about their closest neighbors and possible ancestors. In this section, we present some monographs, individual articles, and collections that focus on the neighbors of the Mariupol Greeks in Nadazov region. Specifically, we limit this to those communities that, since the late 18th and 19th centuries, had compact settlements located geographically close to the Greek villages and the city of Mariupol, or represented a significant percentage of the population in the region. These groups include Ukrainians, Germans, Mennonites, Bulgarians, Jews, and Russians.
We have also included some publications dedicated to the fate and cultural features of the New Nakhichevan Armenians. This is a community of descendants of Crimean Armenians (Gregorian Christians) who were relocated, along with Greeks, Vlachs, and Georgians, to northern Nadazov region in 1778-1780, where they established five villages and a city that is now part of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Although they were not immediate neighbors of the Mariupol Greeks in Nadazov region, they share a common past in Crimea and certain cultural traits that developed on the peninsula and continued to evolve in Nadazov region in their new environment. Several publications are also dedicated to the culture of the Crimean Tatars, who lived alongside the Greeks in the village of Hranitne (Karan), the Karaims (since there is evidence that some Karaite families migrated from Crimea to Mariupol along with the Greeks), and the Gagauz (whose settlements were located in the Zaporizhzhia region, but some researchers believe they share many cultural traits with the Mariupol Greeks).
It should be noted that some publications that are relevant to this subsection, such as the history and culture of other Greek groups, as well as the Greeks of Taganrog (who were neighbors of the Mariupol Greeks), are listed in a separate subsection. Additional relevant information can be found in the subsections on collections, reference publications, publications of documents, and publications made after 2013 in the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Therefore, if you are interested in cultural influences, interconnections, and interethnic relations among the Mariupol Greeks, we encourage you to explore other subsections of the bibliography.
All publications in this subsection are presented in alphabetical order. The Cyrillic alphabet has been used, as almost all the listed publications are in Ukrainian or Russian.
We encourage researchers to remain objective, adhere to scholarly ethics, and critically evaluate certain conclusions, assessments, and comments in the listed publications, as they were created and published in different historical periods and from various ideological perspectives.
The lists provided are not exhaustive. We hope that in the future we will be able to significantly expand the list of publications.
Margaryta Aradzhyoni