Pieria Asia Minor Society Training and exercises of the various departments take place in the clubs building. In June 2018, the association hosted the second Panhellenic Meeting of People from Asia Minor (2ο Πανελλήνιο Αντάμωμα Μικρασιατών) in Katerini. There were about 2000 dancers and musicians from all over Greece. Further activities: Performances of the dancers, singers and the theater group took place in almost all of Greece. Abroad, Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey, Austria and Germany were traveled. 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
Ancient Greek art of Greek objects still further afield, exposed much of Eurasia to it, including the regions in the north of the Indian subcontinent where Buddhism was expanding, and creating Greco-Buddhist art. As Buddhism spread across Central Asia to China and the rest of East Asia, in a form that made great use of religious art, versions of this vocabulary were taken with it and used to surround images of buddhas and other religious images, often with a size and emphasis that would have seemed excessive to the ancient Greeks. The vocabulary was absorbed into the ornament of India, China, Persia and