Les diasporas arménienne et grecque dans la mosaïque ethnique du Caucase du Nord (Province de Stavropol, Russie)

Abstract

The Armenian and Greek Diaspora in the Ethnic Mosaic of the Northern Caucasus (Stavropol Province, Russia). Vitaly S. Belozerov, Pavel P. Touroun, Tamara A. Galkina, Vladimir A. Kolossov. The Greek and Armenian diasporas of Northern Caucasus, and more precisely the province of Stavropol, are inserted into a particularly rich multi-ethnic environment. Although the earliest signs go back to antiquity, they mainly originate migrations from the second half of the 19th century. Greeks and Armenians corne from the same regions of the north-east of Turkey and migrated at the same time under the constraints of Turkish repression following different Russian-Turkish wars and the First World War. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union migrations from the most troubled Transcaucasian zones (Azerbaijan and Georgia) or from those which are going through great economic difficulties (Armenia), have begun again. The refugees flooded in to set themselves up in medium and large towns in the Stavropol province sometimes with the objective of re-emigrating abroad. The Armenians, closer to their homeland and essentially urban, are distinctly more numerous than the Greeks, who corne from various areas of their diasporic space and set themselves up more in rural areas.