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Which minority is officially recognized by the Greek government?
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The Greek government does not officially recognize any ethnic or national minorities, maintaining the position that virtually the entire population is Greek. The only minority officially recognized by the state is a religious one: the Muslim minority of Thrāki (Thrace).
The status of this group was formally acknowledged in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. While the state recognizes this religious minority, it does not officially categorize groups within the country by ethnicity or nationality, despite the presence of populations who may identify as Turks, Macedonians, Albanians, Aromanians (Vlachs), or Roma.1