Asia Minor Slavs
The Asia Minor Slavs were the historical South Slavic communities that were relocated, usually forcibly, from the Balkan peninsula to Asia Minor by the Byzantine Empire from the mid-600s onwards. Slavic population transfers cannot be viewed in separation from the resettlement of similar communities, hostile to Byzantine power, like the Paulicians, this time from Anatolia to the Balkans or the periodic reinforcement of the newly established Byzantine themata in Europe with Greek speakers from Italy, Asia Minor and the Aegean islands.