Destruction of Smyrna

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Great_Fire_of_Smyrna
gptkbp:category 1922 in Turkey
History of Izmir
Fires in Turkey
Massacres in Turkey
gptkbp:commemoratedBy Remembrance events in Greece and Armenia
gptkbp:country gptkb:Turkey
gptkbp:date September 1922
gptkbp:documentedIn contemporary newspapers
eyewitness accounts
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Destruction of Smyrna
gptkbp:location gptkb:Izmir
gptkb:Smyrna
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Greco-Turkish_War_(1919–1922)
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Turkish_nationalist_forces
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Turkish_capture_of_Smyrna
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Greek_Genocide
gptkb:Population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey
gptkb:Armenian_Genocide
gptkbp:resultedIn destruction of Greek and Armenian quarters
mass exodus of Greeks and Armenians
large-scale civilian deaths
gptkbp:significance end of Greek presence in Asia Minor
major humanitarian crisis
gptkbp:victim Armenian population of Smyrna
Greek population of Smyrna
gptkbp:witnessedBy foreign diplomats
Allied warships
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Greco-Turkish_War_(1919–1922)
gptkb:Anatolian_Greeks
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6