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{{about|the indigenous minority of Thrace in northern Greece|information regarding Islam in Greece in general|Islam in Greece}}
[[Image:GreekMuslimMinority1991.png|right|thumb|300px|Map of the Greek Prefectures according to the 1991 census with the minority highlighted.]]
The '''Muslim minority of Greece''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: μουσουλμανική μειονότητα Ελλάδας ''mousoulmaniki meionotita Elladas''; {{lang-tr|Yunanistan Müslüman Azınlığı}}; [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]: мюсюлманско малцинство на Гърция ''mjusjulmansko malcinstvo na Gǎrcija''; [[Romani language|Romani]]: ''Xoraxani selyori andi Elada'') is the only explicitly recognized [[Minority group|minority]] in [[Greece]]. It numbers 97,604 people or 0.91% of the total population, according to the 1991 census.<ref>[http://www.hri.org/MFA/foreign/musmingr.htm Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών, Υπηρεσία Ενημέρωσης: Μουσουλμάνικη μειονότητα Θράκης] and [http://www.waterinfo.gr/eedyp/papers/apografi.html Ελληνική Επιτροπή για τη διαχείρηση των υδατικών πόρων: Στοιχεία από την πρόσφατη απογραφή του πληθυσμού]</ref> The Muslim minority consists of several ethnicities.
For historical reasons, the minority resides in the [[Regions of Greece|Greek region]] of [[Western Thrace|Thrace]] where they make up 28.88% of the population. They form the majority in the [[Rhodope Prefecture]] (51.77%) and sizable percentages in the [[Xanthi Prefecture|Xanthi]] (41.19%) and [[Evros Prefecture]]s (4.65%).<ref name="Gov">[http://www.hri.org/MFA/foreign/musmingr.htm Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών, Υπηρεσία Ενημέρωσης: Μουσουλμάνικη μειονότητα Θράκης]</ref>
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