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Kayaköy is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey. In 2022, its population was 975. Situated 8 kilometres south of Fethiye, it is mostly abandoned. It was
Abandoned houses at Kayaköy
Livissi/Kayaköy village
A panoramic view of a hillside neighbourhood in Kayaköy
A panoramic view of Kayaköy/Leivissi from the High Chapel
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
Kayaköy
…led to the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, the subsequent defeat of Greece, and the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. That treaty contained a protocol, the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, which barred permanently the return of any prior Greek Orthodox refugees to their homes in Turkey (including the previous Livissi refugees) and required…
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)