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Historian Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou writes that "loss of life among Anatolian Greeks during the WWI period and its aftermath was approximately 735,370". [124] Erik Sjöberg states that "[a]ctivists tend to inflate the overall total of Ottoman Greek deaths" over what he considers "the cautious estimates between 300,000 to 700,000".
Tek Sing (near the Belvidere Shoals in the South China Sea) 1,500 27 January 1949: Taiping (East China Sea) ~1,500 16 February, 1993 Ferry Neptune (off Miragoane) 1,159 26 September 1954: Tōya Maru (Tsugaru Strait) 1,024 29 May 1914: RMS Empress of Ireland (Saint Lawrence River) 1,021 15 June 1904: PS General Slocum (New York, United States) 1,012
From 1915 to 1930, Near East Relief saved the lives of over a million refugees, including 132,000 orphans who were cared for and educated in Near East Relief orphanages. Near East Relief mobilized the American people to raise over $116 million for direct relief. Nearly 1,000 U.S. citizens volunteered to travel overseas.
Western Anatolian towns that were burnt down in 1919 – 22 according to the report of the Turkish delegation in Lausanne [201] According to a number of sources, the retreating Greek army carried out a scorched-earth policy while fleeing from Anatolia during the final phase of the war. [ 202 ]
Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), as well as remaining Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Turkey who were required to leave their homes for Greece shortly thereafter as part ...
New York City, Arlington County, Virginia, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania: $10,000,000,000 (2001) 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers. Deadliest disaster in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Deadliest act of terrorism in United States history. 2,982 (estimated) 2017 Hurricane Maria: Tropical cyclone
The East Anatolian Fault branches away from the main strand to form a northern strand near Çelikhan. This strand, also known as the Sürgü–Misis Fault System, also consists multiple left-lateral fault segments with a total length of 380 km (240 mi). It joins the Kyrenia–Misis Fault Zone under the Gulf of Alexandretta. [7]
Many Anatolian sites were destroyed at the Late Bronze Age, and the area appears to have undergone extreme political decentralization. For much of the Late Bronze Age, Anatolia had been dominated by the Hittite Empire , but by 1200 BC, the state was already fragmenting under the strain of famine, plague, and civil war.