Great Fire of 1922

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:affectedPopulation Armenian population of Smyrna
Greek population of Smyrna
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Great_Fire_of_Smyrna
gptkbp:category History of Izmir
Fires in Turkey
1922 disasters
gptkbp:cause arson (disputed)
gptkbp:commemoratedBy annual remembrance events
memorials in Greece and Armenia
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Ottoman_Empire
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Turkey
gptkbp:displacedPeople hundreds of thousands
gptkbp:endDate September 17, 1922
gptkbp:historicalName gptkb:Greco-Turkish_War_(1919–1922)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great Fire of 1922
gptkbp:legacy major event in population exchange between Greece and Turkey
end of Greek presence in Smyrna
gptkbp:location gptkb:Izmir
gptkb:Smyrna
gptkbp:notableEvacuation Greek and Armenian civilians
gptkbp:notablePublication Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 by Giles Milton
The Blight of Asia by George Horton
Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
gptkbp:notableWitness gptkb:Mark_Prentiss
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:George_Horton
gptkb:Asa_Jennings
gptkbp:perpetrator disputed
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Turkish_capture_of_Smyrna
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Greek_genocide
gptkb:Armenian_genocide
Destruction of Armenian quarter
gptkbp:resultedIn refugee crisis
mass displacement
large civilian casualties
destruction of much of Smyrna
gptkbp:startDate September 13, 1922
gptkbp:victim 10,000–100,000 (disputed)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:New_Bern_Firemen's_Museum
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7