Ninety Year Commemoration of the 1922 Catastrophe of Smyrna, Asia Minor
Author: Despina Drakos
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 9781922109712
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Author: Despina Drakos
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 9781922109712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780966745108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn September, 1922, Mustapha Kemal {Ataturk}, the victorious revolutionary ruler of Turkey, led his troops into Smyrna (now Izmir) a predominantly Christian city, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships-- including three American destroyers-- looked on. The Turks soon proceeded to indulge in an orgy of pillage, rape and slaughter that the Western powers anxious to protect their oil and trade interests in Turkey, condoned by their silence and refusal to intervene. Turkish forces then set fire to the legendary city and totally destroyed it. There followed a massive cover-up by tacit agreement of the Western Allies who had defeated Turkey and Germany during World War I. By 1923 Smyrna's demise was all but expunged from historical memory.
Author: Victoria Solomonidis
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781849040921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1919 when an expeditionary force was sent to occupy Smyrna and the Vilayet of Aidin in Turkey to a civilian bloodbath, the destruction of Smyrna and the expulsion of Hellenism from Asia Minor, this considers the politics and the people involved in the 'Smyrna Catastrophe'.
Author: Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christos Papoutsy
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ships of Mercy" reveals the true heroes of Smyrna, forgotten by history. It is based on more than ten years of research by Christos Papoutsy, who traveled around the globe to document the rescue of hundreds of thousands of Greek refugees on the Smyrna quay in September 1922.
Author: Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 275
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Horton
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicolas Argenti
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0253040698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey of 1922–23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries between historiography, memory, religion, and myth. A member of the Chiot diaspora, Argenti makes use of unpublished correspondence from survivors of the Massacres of 1822 and their descendants and reflects on oral family histories and silences in which the island represents an enigmatic but palpable absence. As he explores the ways in which a body of memory and a cultural experience of temporality came to be dislocated and shared between two populations, his return to Chios marks an encounter in which the traditional roles of ethnographer and participant come to be dispersed and intertwined.
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2011-07-18
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0307401944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.
Author: Arnold Toynbee
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 446
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