Pontic Greek genocide
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The Pontic Greek genocide, or the Pontic genocide, was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the indigenous Greek community in the Pontus region in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and its
A temporary pavilion in Syntagma Square, Athens, commemorating the Pontic genocide
Massacred Greeks in Giresun region, 1921
1924 statute of the Athens-based Brotherhood of the Fighters for Pontus
Greek genocide
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The Greek genocide, which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the indigenous Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia because of their religion and ethnicity, which was c
Pontic Greek genocide
…the deportation of the survivors to Greece during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The Pontic genocide is part of the wider Greek genocide, but it is often covered separately because of the geographic isolation of Pontus and several political and historical features. From 700 BC, Pontic…
Greek civilians mourn their dead relatives, Great Fire of Smyrna, 1922
Phocaea in flames, during the massacre perpetrated by Turkish irregulars in June 1914
Hellenism in Near East during and after World War I, showing some of the areas (Western Anatolia and Eastern Thrace) where the Greek population was concentrated. The Pontic region is not shown.
"Turks Slaughter Christian Greeks", Lincoln Daily Star, 19 October 1917