Burning of Smyrna

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:affectedPopulation gptkb:Greeks
gptkb:Jews
gptkb:Levantines
gptkb:Armenians
gptkb:Turks
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Smyrna_Catastrophe
gptkb:Great_Fire_of_Smyrna
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Greek_diaspora
gptkb:Armenian_diaspora
memorials in Armenia
memorials in Greece
gptkbp:country gptkb:Turkey
gptkbp:date September 1922
gptkbp:destroyedBy gptkb:Armenian_quarter
gptkb:European_quarter
Greek quarter
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Burning of Smyrna
gptkbp:internationalResponse limited intervention
gptkbp:location gptkb:Izmir
gptkb:Smyrna
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk
gptkb:Metropolitan_Chrysostomos_of_Smyrna
gptkb:Aristidis_Stergiadis
gptkb:George_Horton
gptkb:Nureddin_Pasha
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Greco-Turkish_War_(1919–1922)
gptkb:Turkish_War_of_Independence
gptkbp:perpetrator disputed
gptkbp:precededBy capture of Smyrna by Turkish forces
gptkbp:refugees hundreds of thousands
gptkbp:resultedIn large civilian casualties
destruction of much of the city
mass exodus of Greek and Armenian populations
gptkbp:significance end of Greek presence in Asia Minor
major humanitarian disaster
turning point in Turkish War of Independence
gptkbp:spared gptkb:Turkish_quarter
concentration camp
gptkbp:subjectOf books
documentaries
films
historical studies
memoirs
gptkbp:victim 10,000 to 100,000
gptkbp:witnessedBy foreign diplomats
Allied warships
American relief workers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Great_Fire_of_Smyrna
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5