Armenians in Greece

[4] In 1890, there was a small community of Armenians in Athens and in Piraeus of about 150 people which turned into 600 after the incorporation of Thessaloniki (1912) and some cities of Macedonia after the Balkan Wars.

During the Hamidian massacres, Armenians that managed to escape and who were saved from the slaughters were given shelter at the harbour of Piraeus.

It had faced enormous problems by the 1988 Spitak earthquake and, soon after its nationhood, got involved in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

The provisional also accommodation and the caring of some hundreds of refugees that resorted to Greece were covered up to one degree by the Armenian community.

As of 2007, the number of Armenians in Greece is estimated at approximately 20,000–35,000, living mainly in Attica (Athens, Piraeus and the suburbs) and in smaller communities in Thessaloniki, Kavala, Komotini, Xanthi, Alexandroupolis, Didimoticho, Orestiada and Crete.