question for the greeks

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WarthogVast3210@reddit

Counter offer would be Serres, Kilkis, Komotini, Xanthi.

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Iapetus404@reddit

Rhodes is not in market....

We can give you Kilkis for Constantinople and you can keep east side.

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GEO7931@reddit

Hahaha very clever greek friend. Lets give them location that doesn't exist and we take the very real Constantinople.

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Exchanging 120 thousand of our weird talking like singing hobbitses for 12 MILLION of yours? We can barely control our retirement funds every 10 years without going into a massive recession, and now we get to pay for all the tribes of Anatolia into one city? That is a hell of a bad deal.

I'd say it would be funnier if we got Eastern Thrace without Istanbul, as they seem too Balkan to be true. Maybe they cosplay as Muslims. But we can make them drink alcohol without insecurity. Plus the whole place looks like any random Greek town whose only point of reference is being a bus stop.

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icancount192@reddit

I can give you Pyrgos for Edirne.

Or forget Edirne, just take Pyrgos

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Alternative_Chip_397@reddit

First funny Greek I have seen

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StPauliPirate@reddit

Whats wrong with Pyrgos? Is it your Diyarbakir?

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icancount192@reddit

No it's great. Take it

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QuestionEconomy8809@reddit

It's pure ass bro

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Altruistic-Board5322@reddit

😂

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Jimakos2018@reddit

Trade? You can have Mykonos for free

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Free-Celebration4562@reddit

Nah, Mykonos needs to be bombed out of existence at this point.

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Are you serious? Let's go to the title deed office right now

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Routine_Comb_7277@reddit

of course yes

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Altruistic-Board5322@reddit

Do you want Peloponnese?

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volcano156@reddit

If you take southeastern turkey, why not?

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Kavalarhs@reddit

This is blasphemy. This is madness

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

we were da first to free the land from turks and they trading us...

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Altruistic-Board5322@reddit

I m Peloponnesian 😂

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Next-Pepper-4761@reddit

Ι wanna be a hater rn, but as a fellow Peloponnesian i get it man...

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Altruistic-Board5322@reddit

😂😂😂

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

OH THE BETRAYAL

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Kavalarhs@reddit

He must be from pyrgos

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Altruistic-Board5322@reddit

I have relatives there 🤣

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Kavalarhs@reddit

Its starting to make sense now

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

best of them has fucked his mother, makes sense

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

That really hurt my feelings lmao

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

Ι sincirely apologise

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

I knew you weren't being serious. 🥲

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jaunmilijej@reddit

Bro my Greek friend said today he’d love to exchange the Turkish Aegean Coast for Peloponnese. What’s your issue with Peloponnese 😭

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icancount192@reddit

Peloponnesseans are considered both cunning and crooks by the rest of the Greeks. Most prominent politicians, lawyers etc hailed from the Peloponnesse.

There's a mostly joking feud between the North (Macedonia) and the South (Athens and the Peloponnesse). The South doesn't consider the feud ever, but the Northern Greeks take it a bit more seriously.

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jaunmilijej@reddit

Yeah I’ve heard about that feud a lot. My friends (from the south) keep calling the Northerners Bulgarians and farmers…

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icancount192@reddit

Mostly football fans call the Northern Bulgarians anymore. Now everyone is everywhere and it doesn't make much sense.

But 50-60 years ago a lot of people from the South called the Northerns Bulgarians and the refugees from Anatolia Turkish seeds.

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jaunmilijej@reddit

Τουρκόσπορος! That’s how they call me too!

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icancount192@reddit

Yep, exactly.

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Altruistic-Board5322@reddit

I was born there, trust me 😂

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jaunmilijej@reddit

In case Nafplio and Mycenae count it was awesome there

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LaVeriteEstDansLeVin@reddit

It's not the Peloponnese, it's the Peloponnesians.

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ephesusa@reddit

We can give you mersin for it

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

Eeeeeee minara, let us be

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Complex-Arugula-2233@reddit

Amazing Offer! Exclusive gift:

We can give you Thiva, Giannitsa, Kilkis, Pyrgos and Agrinio for Instabul!!!!

Yes!

Five amazing Greek cities!!!!!

As a gift for the trade, you can have Filiatra! There is an Eiffel Tower there, I am not kidding!

Don't miss the offer, guys. 5 + 1 cities, for Instabul!

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

no,

& the Greek government would, also, reject it.

Greece opposed "giving up" Kastellorizo (and Ro/Strongyli) for annexation of (most of) Cyprus.

The Greek Prime Minister, despite strong American pressure, refused to accept the plan on the grounds that ceding sovereign Greek territory is "politically impossible" and unconstitutional.

majority of Greeks would, also, oppose it.

a minority may support it,

but, we know exactly who these people r & how "destructive" their foreign policy "ideas" may be.

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Young_Owl99@reddit

Quick unrelated question. Why we use two different Greek names for the same island ?

Use call it Kastellorizo, we call it Mais. Both are obviously Greek why two different names ?

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Sior_Soffritto@reddit

Kastellorizo is not Greek in origin but Italian. Its name is a Hellenized form of Castelrosso. The Greek name of the island is Megisti, from which the Turkish name Meis is also derived.

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Young_Owl99@reddit

Oh interesting. Thanks for the answer. It always seemed odd to me that we use a Greek name that you didn’t use for the island.

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Sior_Soffritto@reddit

The official name is Megisti, but everyone uses Kastellorizo in everyday context.

The same is true for Santorini, which is a Hellenized form of the Italian name Sant’Irene. The Greek name is Thira.

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Cookiesend@reddit

Greece is the most beautiful country in the world. Keep our greek artwork safe in Turkey. Thanks

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RasyonelRumi@reddit

I can give you Trabzon and in return I don’t want anything

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CalydonianBoar@reddit

Is the Pontic region really that bad? At least the landscape looks magnificent

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RasyonelRumi@reddit

Just like you said, a perfect landscape, but a difficult political environment. Very conservative, very pro-Erdogan. They call everyone “Bizans tohumu,” which means “Byzantine seed,” while their genetic makeup shows a very low percentage of East Eurasian ancestry, many of them actually show 0%.

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