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From 8,000 Greek civilians gathered in the town, half of them remained after the evacuation of the Greek Army. They were killed by the advancing Turkish soldiers. As a part of Greek genocide. [30] Uşak massacre 1 September 1922 Uşak: 200 [31] Greeks Turks The city was burned by the retreating Greek army, 33% of the buildings were destroyed.
This name, still in use in Greek, was later evolved in Turkish as Adalia and then Antalya. [12] Attaleia was also the name of a festival at Delphi and Attalis (Greek: Ἀτταλίς) was the name of an old Greek tribe at Athens. [13] [14] Despite the close similarity, there is no connection with the name Anatolia.
Name Date Location Deaths Perpetrators Notes Constantinople massacre: April–July 1821 Occurred in Constantinople, but contemporary pogrom activities spread in parts of present-day Greece (Kos, Rhodes) [3] unknown Ottoman government Navarino massacre: 19 August 1821 Pylos: 3,000 Greek irregular forces Massacre of Samothrace: 1 September 1821 ...
The government bombed and killed residents of villages who refused to join the government forces. The government spread pictures of dead children in newspapers and blamed the PKK. Turkey was condemned for carrying out the massacre of Kurdish civilians in the ECHR. Gazi Quarter massacre: March 15, 1995 Istanbul and Ankara: 23 [84]
Termessos (Greek Τερμησσός Termēssós), also known as Termessos Major (Τερμησσός ἡ μείζων), [1] was a Pisidian city [2] built at an altitude of about 1000 metres at the south-west side of Solymos Mountain (modern Güllük Dağı) in the Taurus Mountains (modern Korkuteli, Antalya Province, Turkey).
Pylos, Greece: Greek revolutionaries: 3,000 Tripolitsa massacre [12] 23 September 1821 Tripoli, Greece Greek revolutionaries 6,000–30,000 [13] [14] Galați massacre 20 February 1821 Galați, Romania: Greek revolutionaries 50–300 [15] Massacres of the Turkish population during the April Uprising: April–May 1876 Bulgaria: Bulgarian ...
Some contemporary sources claimed different death tolls. The Greek government collected figures together with the Patriarchate to claim that a total of one million people were massacred. [125] A team of American researchers found in the early postwar period that the total number of Greeks killed may approach 900,000 people. [3]
The city was mentioned by ancient Greek and Roman writers. The Greek historian Strabo noted that Xanthos was the largest city in Lycia. [3] The important religious sanctuary of Leto at Letoon, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Xanthos, dates from the late 6th century BC, [4] and was closely associated with the city and linked by a sacred road. [5]