Vallahades
The Vallahades () or Valaades () also Patrioytlar were a Muslim-Greek people population of the Bektashi-Tarika who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Macedonia (Greece); in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena. The Greek term Vallahades derived from the Muslim word Vallahi, the meaning of this word is: (By Allah). They were expelled from Greece to Turkey after the Treaty of Lausanne at The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. They settled there in East Thrace and Anatolia. and have become completely assimilated into the Turkish Muslim mainstream as Turks.
In Turkey this Group is known as Patriyotlar (Vatanseverler). The Patriyotlar once lived in the :en:Sanjak of Serfige. Because of their pro-Ottoman-Turkish attitude, at the Balkan Wars, this Group of Muslims were called patriotes (patriotes) by the Greeks. The name Patriyotlar in Turkish means Vatanseverler. At the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey about Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, this Muslim-Group was expelled by the Greeks and moved to Turkey and settled in Edirne, Luleburgaz, Corlu and Buyukcekmece in East Thrace and Samsun and Manisa and other Citys in Anatolia. The first Generation only speak Patriyotca a Macedonian-Greek dialect, and not Turkish, yet there descendants only speak Turkish and fully assimilated.
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Ethnic groups in Turkey