Anatolia College
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Anatolia College, also known as the American College, is a private, non-profit, educational institution located in Pylaia, a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. The school has five subdivisions: Anatolia
Macedonia Hall, the main classroom building of the High School department.
The first graduating class of Anatolia College, in 1887
Macedonia Hall under construction in 1934
Wehrmacht officers in front of Macedonia Hall on April 9, 1941, with Stevens and Compton halls in the background
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey was the mass expulsion of approximately 1,221,489 Greek Orthodox Christians from Asia Minor, Eastern Thrace, the Pontic Alps and the Caucasus, an
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…after the Armenian genocide and Greek genocide caused the death of most students and teachers. The last survivors escaped to Greece in the 1923 Population exchange. With help from Eleftherios Venizelos, Anatolia reopened in Thessaloniki in 1924, renting buildings in Harilaou, with 13 students, mostly refugees…
The ghost town of Kayaköy (Livisi) in southwestern Anatolia. The Greek village was abandoned during the 1923 population exchange.
Greek and Armenian refugee children in Athens
Muslim refugees
Declaration of Property during the Greek-Turkish population exchange from Yena (Kaynarca) to Thessaloniki (16 December 1927)