Regions
Distinct from the main stream regional cuisines are:
- Kritiki (Cretan cuisine)
- Kypriaki (Cypriot cuisine)
- Ionian islands
- Ipeirotiki
- Macedonitiki (Macedonian cuisine)
- Politiki, from the tradition of the Greeks of Istanbul
- Pontiaki, found anywhere there are Pontians (Greek immigrants from the Black Sea region, from the 1924 exchange of populations)
- Mikrasiatiki, from the Greek refugees of the 1922 population exchange.
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