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  2. Greek War of Independence - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Massacres during the Greek War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    Many Jews within Greece and throughout Europe were however supporters of the Greek revolt, and many assisted the Greek cause. Following the state's establishment, it also then attracted many Jewish immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, as one of the first European states in the world to grant legal equality to Jews .

  4. Third siege of Missolonghi - Wikipedia

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    Ibrahim Pasha now demanded the city surrender, with the people being given the choice of being sold into slavery or converting to Islam, a demand the Greeks rejected. [21] On 6 April 1826, Reshid Pasha led some 2,000 Albanian and Turkish troops onto the island of Klisova, but the Ottoman troops got stuck in the mud as they landed, making them ...

  5. Category:1830s deaths - Wikipedia

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  6. Constantinople massacre of 1821 - Wikipedia

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    In addition, on the evening of April 2, the first news of the Greek Revolt in southern Greece reached Constantinople. [ 7 ] Leading personalities of the Greek community, in particular the Ecumenical Patriarch , Gregory V , and the Grand Dragoman , Konstantinos Mourouzis, were accused of having knowledge of the revolt by the Sultan, Mahmud II ...

  7. Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Category:1830 deaths - Wikipedia

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    A. Joel Adams; Robert H. Adams; Agnes Magnúsdóttir; Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt; Nazeer Akbarabadi; Ilya I. Alekseyev; Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León; John Anderson (theologian)

  9. Otto of Greece - Wikipedia

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    When Greece was blockaded by the British Royal Navy in 1850 and again in 1854, to stop Greece from attacking the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War, Otto's standing amongst Greeks suffered. As a result, there was an assassination attempt on Queen Amalia , and finally, in October 1862, Otto was deposed while in the countryside.