The
Greek diaspora or
Hellenic diaspora, also known as
Omogenia refers to the communities of
Greek people living outside the traditional Greek homelands, but more commonly in other parts of the
Balkans, in southern
Russia and
Ukraine,
Asia Minor, the region of
Pontus (
Pontic Greeks), as well as
Eastern Anatolia and neighbouring
Georgia and the
South Caucasus (see
Caucasus Greeks,
Greeks in Russia, and
Greeks in Georgia). Members of the diaspora can be identified as those who themselves, or whose ancestors, migrated from the Greek homelands.