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In the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ), a large-scale population exchange between Greece and Turkey transferred and confined Christians from Turkey, except Constantinople ( effectively ethnic Greeks ) into the borders of the modern Greek state and Cyprus.

Other ethnic Greek populations can be found from southern Italy to the Caucasus and in diaspora communities in a number of other countries.

Today, most Greeks are officially registered as members of the Greek Orthodox Church.