Pieria Asia Minor Society Pieria Asia Minor Society After the Greco-Turkish population exchange in 1923, many of the Greek refugees from Asia Minor (Anatolia) came to Macedonia. To help the new arrivals in the prefecture of Pieria, the Pieria Asia Minor Society () was founded. Seat of the club is at Kiou 2, corner Sarantaporou, 60100 Katerini, Pieria, Greece. Between 1914 and 1923, Greeks in Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor were persecuted by the Ottomans and forcibly evicted, culminating in the Greco-Turkish population exchange of 1923. The club was founded in 1923, for the purpose of supporting the Asia Minor refugees. The help of
Ancient Greek phonology and this cluster underwent metathesis early in the Ancient Greek period. Metathesis is likely in this case; clusters of a voiced stop and , like , do not occur in Ancient Greek, since they change to by assimilation (see below), while clusters with the opposite order, like , pronounced , do occur. Ancient grammarians, such as Aristotle in his "Poetics" and Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar, categorized letters () according to what speech sounds ( 'elements') they represented. They called the letters for vowels ('pronounceable', singular ); the letters for the nasals, liquids, and , and the letters