Great Fire of Smyrna

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath international relief efforts
refugee crisis in Greece
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Burning_of_Smyrna
gptkb:Smyrna_Catastrophe
gptkbp:category gptkb:Greek_genocide
gptkb:Armenian_genocide
1922 in Turkey
Destruction of cultural heritage
Fires in Asia
History of Izmir
Massacres of Christians
gptkbp:commemoratedBy memorials in Armenia
memorials in Greece
memorials in diaspora communities
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Turkey
gptkbp:displacedPeopleEstimate hundreds of thousands
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:The_Blight_of_Asia_(book)
contemporary photographs
eyewitness accounts
gptkbp:endDate 1922-09-22
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great Fire of Smyrna
gptkbp:mediaCoverage international press
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk
gptkb:Aristidis_Stergiadis
gptkb:George_Horton
gptkb:Nureddin_Pasha
gptkbp:occurredIn gptkb:Izmir
gptkb:Smyrna
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Greco-Turkish_War_(1919–1922)
gptkbp:perpetratorAlleged gptkb:Turkish_nationalist_forces
gptkbp:precededBy capture of Smyrna by Turkish forces
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey
destruction of Christian heritage in Anatolia
gptkbp:resultedIn large civilian casualties
destruction of Greek and Armenian quarters
mass exodus of Greeks and Armenians
gptkbp:significance humanitarian
end of Greek presence in Asia Minor
major event in Turkish War of Independence
gptkbp:startDate 1922-09-13
gptkbp:victim 10,000–100,000
Armenian population of Smyrna
Greek population of Smyrna
gptkbp:witnessedBy foreign diplomats
Allied warships
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Izmir
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4