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In the city of Smyrna (modern İzmir, Turkey), which until 1922 was a mostly Greek city, Ottoman soldiers drawn from the interior of Anatolia on their way to fight in either Greece or Moldavia/Wallachia, staged a pogrom in June 1821 against the Greeks, leading Gordon to write: "3,000 ruffians assailed the Greek quarter, plundered the houses and ...
The Cretan revolt of 1866–1869 (Greek: Κρητική Επανάσταση του 1866) or Great Cretan Revolution (Μεγάλη Κρητική Επανάσταση) was a three-year uprising in Crete against Ottoman rule, the third and largest in a series of Cretan revolts between the end of the Greek War of Independence in 1830 and the establishment of the independent Cretan State in 1898.
The Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 occurred alongside the Greek War of Independence.The conflict had both political and regional dimensions, as it pitted the Roumeliotes, who lived in mainland Greece, and shipowners from the Islands, primarily Hydra island, against the Peloponnesians or Moreotes.
He pursued his research in Greece under extremely difficult material conditions until August 1831, long after the expedition had returned to France at the end of 1829. [93] Amaury-Duval later gave some picturesque portraits of both Quinet and Vietty in his Souvenirs (1829-1830) .
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Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1827, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux) Shortly after Lord Byron 's death in 1824, the Turks arrived to besiege the Greeks once more at Missolonghi . Turkish commander Reşid Mehmed Pasha was joined by Ibrahim Pasha , who crossed the Gulf of Corinth , and during the early part of 1826, Ibrahim had ...
Pages in category "1830s in Greece" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bavarian Auxiliary Corps; M.
1950, 9 December: Greece participates with the Korean War in favor of South Korea. By the end of the war during 1953, 194 Greek soldiers will be killed. 1952, 18 February: Greece and Turkey become members of NATO. 1953, August: The 7.2 M s Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ...