In light of the upcoming centennial commemoration of the September 1922 Burning of Smyrna, the…
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The Smyrna Catastrophe in September of 1922 was a defining period for the development of…
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FeaturesHistory
On This Day June 12, 1914: Ancient Greek Community of Phocaea in Asia Minor is Massacred
A precursor to the fateful events that would happen less than a decade later in…
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The catastrophe of Smyrna and the events that led to it, including the annihilation of…
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“My mother arrived on this island on a boat, carrying with her a chest of…
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GreeceNews
Paying Back a 100 Year Favor to the People of Lesvos for Saving His Asia Minor Refugee Parents
Ed St. George left his home in Irvine, California in November and has been helping…
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CultureNews
On the Anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople, the Memory of the Asia Minor Greeks Not Only Lives On, But Thrives
Today marks the day in 1453 when the millennia-old Greek presence in Asia Minor suffered…
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By Gregory PappasCultureHistory
Genocide Remembrance: Preserving the Human Stories of Death and Survival of the Annihilation of the Greek Presence in Asia Minor 1914-1922
As the 93th anniversary of the burning of Smyrna approach— the final chapter in the…
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This past week, I had the great joy of welcoming (and partly chaperoning) two Greek-Americans…
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BooksFeatures
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 New Book from Harvard University Press
A book by two leading Israeli scholars extensively covers the history of the genocide of…