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{{Infobox Ethnic group
|group     = Greeks in the Netherlands<br/>{{lang|nl|Grieken in Nederland}}<br/>{{lang|el|Έλληνες στην Ολλανδία}}
|image     = 
|population   =  37,382<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/83482NED/table?dl=53FE1|title = CBS Statline}}</ref> (CBS, 2023)
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|langs     = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Greek language|Greek]]
|rels      = [[Greek Orthodox Church]]
|related-c = [[Greeks]]
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'''Greeks in the Netherlands''' ({{Langx|nl|Grieken in Nederland}}; {{Langx|el|Έλληνες στην Ολλανδία|translit=Éllines stin Ollandía}}) number 37,382 as of 2023.

==Religion==
The first [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] congregation in [[Amsterdam]] was founded by [[Erasmus of Arcadia|Metropolitan Gerasimos Avlonites]].<ref name="Erasmus">{{Citation|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=InS0Ey5Q56QC&q=bishops+of+arcadia+crete&pg=PA52|title= Authority and Order: John Wesley and his Preachers|quote=Tyerman has told that John Jones wrote to the patriarch of Smyrna and received confirmation that Erasmus was indeed Bishop of Arcadia, in Crete. The Greeks in Amsterdam, rather than denounce him as an imposture, acknowledged him as founding the first Greek Church there. He was not an ignorant man, but a renowned scholar, having participated in the publication of a serious work in London and Amsterdam.|publisher =[[Ashgate Publishing]]|access-date = 2007-12-31|isbn = 978-0-7546-5454-4|year = 2005}}</ref>

==Notable people==
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* [[Nikos Vertis]] - singer
* [[Stefania Liberakakis]] - singer
* [[Mikaela Fotiadis]] - half Dutch Greek model 
* [[Marios Lomis]] - soccer
* [[Rosanna Georgiou]] - half Dutch supermodel
* [[Janice Fronimakis]] - model
* [[Σίλια Ευαγγέλου]] - half Dutch Greek model
* [[I Mikri Ollandeza]] - half Dutch former model and youtuber, her name is Danae Georganta, (I Mikri Ollandeza) is the name of her youtube channel and it means (The Little Dutch Girl)

==See also== 
{{Portal|Greece|Netherlands}}
* [[Greece–Netherlands relations]]
* [[Greek diaspora]] 
* [[Immigration to the Netherlands]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

== Bibliography ==
*{{citation |last=Şentürk|first=Cem|year=2008|title=West Thrace Turkish's Immigration to Europe |url=http://www.sosyalarastirmalar.com/cilt1/sayi2/sayi2pdf/senturk_cem.pdf|publisher=The Journal of International Social Research}}

==Further reading==
*{{citation|title=Grieks onderwijs in eigen taal en cultuur in Nederland/Greek education in their own language and culture in the Netherlands|last1=Dialektopolous|first1=Athanasios|year=1998|location=Utrecht|publisher=Landelijk Inspraakorgaan Zuid-Europeanen|isbn=978-90-801472-5-6|oclc=68088633|last2=Veenstra|first2=J.}}
*{{citation|title=Van tweeën een: Bicultureel-tweetalige socialisatie van Griekse leerlingen in Nederland/One of two: bilingual-bicultural socialization of Greek students in the Netherlands|last=Dialektopolous|first=Athanasios|year=2003|series=Ph.D. thesis|url=http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/ppsw/2003/a.dialektopoulos/thesis.pdf|publisher=[[University of Groningen]]|isbn=978-90-367-1798-4|oclc=66701422}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

== External links ==
* [http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Geographic+Regions/Europe/Relationships+with+EU+Member+States/Netherlands/  Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with the Netherlands] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715184809/http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Geographic%20Regions/Europe/Relationships%20with%20EU%20Member%20States/Netherlands/ |date=2006-07-15 }}
* [http://www.mfa.gr/missionsabroad/en/netherlands-en/about-us Greek embassy in The Hague]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120702000251/http://www.greek-expats.nl/ Greek Expats in the Netherlands]

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