Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians (; ) or simply Cappadocians are a Greek-speaking community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia, roughly the Nevşehir Province and surrounding provinces of modern Turkey. There had been a continuous Greek presence in Cappadocia since antiquity, and the indigenous populations of Cappadocia, whose Indo-European languages were in some cases (cf. Phrygian) closely related to Greek, became entirely Greek-speaking by at least the late Roman period (5th century AD). In the late Middle Ages (11th century) Seljuq Turks arriving from Central Asia conquered Turkey, beginning the region's gradual shift in language to Turkish and in religion to Islam. In 1924, after being targeted in the genocide against the minorities of Turkey, the surviving Cappadocian Greek native communities were forced to leave their homeland in central Turkey and resettle in modern Greece by the terms of the Greek–Turkish population exchange. Today their descendants can be found throughout Greece and the Greek diaspora worldwide.