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	There were numerous massacres during the ] perpetrated by both the Ottoman authorities and the Greek revolutionaries. The war was characterized by a lack of respect for civilian life and prisoners of war by both sides in the conflict. The Turks massacred many Greeks especially in Ionia (Asia Minor), Crete, Constantinople and the Aegean islands where the revolutionary forces were weaker, while some Greek revolutionaries massacred Muslims inhabiting the Peloponnese and Attica where Greek forces were dominant. Greek atrocities were largely limited to the first year of the war, whereas Ottoman atrocities continued throughout the conflict.

			There were numerous ]s during the ] (1821–1829) perpetrated by both the ] forces and the ] revolutionaries. The war was characterized by a lack of respect for ] life, and ] on both sides of the conflict. Massacres of Greeks took place especially in ], ], ], ] and the ] islands. ], ], ], and ] populations, who were identified with the Ottomans inhabiting the ], suffered massacres, particularly where Greek forces were dominant.<ref>{{harvp\|Peacock\|1982\|pp=219–220}}</ref> Settled Greek communities in the ], Crete, ] and Southern Greece were wiped out, and settled Turkish, Albanian, ], and smaller Jewish communities in the Peloponnese were destroyed.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{harvp\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=2}}</ref><ref>{{harvp\|Fisher\|1965\|pp=881–882}}</ref>
	The Turks also practiced the profitable business of ], which had been common in the Ottoman Empire.<ref>Brewer, p.162</ref>

			==Massacres of Greeks==
	]'s Massacre of Chios]]

			===Constantinople===
	Turkish massacres of Greek civilians were instrumental in securing European sympathy and aid for the Greek cause, as Europeans were outraged by the fact that Christians were being massacred by the Ottoman Turks.
			{{Main\|Constantinople Massacre of 1821}}
			]
			]]]

			Most of the Greeks in the Greek quarter of Constantinople were massacred.<ref>{{harvp\|Fisher\|1965\|p=882}}</ref> On ], 9 April 1821, ] was hanged in the central outside portal of the ] by the Ottomans. His body was mutilated and thrown into the sea, where it was rescued by Greek sailors. One week later, the former Ecumenical Patriarch ] was hanged in the gate of the ]'s cathedral.<ref></ref> This was followed by the execution of two Metropolitans and twelve Bishops by the Turkish authorities.<ref></ref> By the end of April, a number of prominent Greeks had been decapitated by Turkish forces in Constantinople, including Constantine ], ] Tsalikis, Dimitrios Paparigopoulos, Antonios Tsouras, and the ] Petros Tsigris, Dimitrios Skanavis and Manuel Hotzeris, while Georgios ] was hanged.<ref></ref> In May, the Metropolitans Gregorios of Derkon, Dorotheos of Adrianople, Ioannikios of ], Joseph of ], and the ] Georgios ] and Nikolaos ] were decapitated on the Sultan's orders in ].<ref>http://www.phys.uoa.gr/~nektar/history/historia_abstract{{dead link\|date=January 2018 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
	From North to South, massacres can be analyzed by region:

			===Aegean Islands===
			{{main\|Chios Massacre\|Destruction of Psara\|Kasos massacre}}
			]
			<!-- ] -->

			The Turks and Egyptians ravaged several Greek islands during the Greek Revolution, including those of ] (1821), ] (1822), ],<ref name="St_Clair_1972"/> ],<ref name="St_Clair_1972"/> ] and ] (1824). The massacre of Samothrace occurred on September 1, 1821, where a Turkish fleet under the ] Nasuhzade Ali Pasha killed most of the male population, took the women and children to slavery and burned down their homes.<ref>{{harvp\|Lacroix\|1853}}</ref> The ] of 1822 became one of the most notorious occurrences of the war.<ref></ref><ref>{{harvp\|Argenti\|1932}}</ref> It is estimated that up to 100,000 Chiots were killed or enslaved during the massacre, while 20,000 escaped as refugees.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Cartledge \|first=Y. \|date=2020 \|title=The Chios Massacre (1822) and early British Christian-humanitarianism \|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htz004 \|journal=Historical Research \|volume=93 \|issue=259 \|pages=52–72 \|doi=10.1093/hisres/htz004 \|issn=0950-3471}}</ref> ], the Pasha of ], dispatched his fleet to ] and on May 27, 1824 ].<ref>{{harvp\|Hellander\|2008\|p=540}}</ref> A few weeks later, the fleet under ] destroyed the population of Psara.<ref>{{harvp\|Brewer\|2001\|pp=235–236}}</ref>
	==Constantinople==
	The Turks massacred almost the entire male population of the Greek quarter of Constantinople. <ref>Fisher, ''A History of Europe, pg. 882''</ref>On ], 10 April, 1821, ] is hanged in the central outside portal of the ] by the Ottomans. The door has remained shut and out of use ever since.<ref></ref> ; his body was mutilated and thrown into the sea, where it was rescued by Greek sailors. One week later, the former Ecumenical Patriarch Cyril VI is hanged in the gate of the ]'s cathedral<ref></ref>. This was followed by the execution of two metropolitans and twelve Bishops by the Turkish authorities.<ref>''The history of the Greek Orthodox Church'' http://www.greekorthodoxchurch.org/history.html</ref>. Until the end of April, many prominent Greeks were decapitated by the Turkish forces in Constantinople, including Constantine ], Dimitrios Paparigopoulos, Antonios Tsouras, and the ] Petros Tsigris, Dimitrios Skanavis and Manuel Hotzeris, while Georgios ] was hanged.<ref></ref> In May, the Metropolitans Gregorios of Derkon, Dorotheos of Adrianople, Ioannikios of ], Joseph of ], and the ] Georgios ] and Nikolaos ] were decapitated on Sultan orders in ]<ref></ref>. In the large scale massacres of Greek civilians in Constantinople, approximately 30,000 perished in total<ref>The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, The late Revolution in Greece, p.244</ref>

	==~~Asia~~ ~~Minor~~==		===Central Greece===
			{{main\|Third Siege of Missolonghi}}
	In June, Turkish massacres of Greek civilians began in earnest in ]. In the town of ] in Ionia, the Turkish garrison began plundering houses and massacred an estimated 25,000 people. There were also extensive massacres in Smyrna.
			], ])]]

			Shortly after ]'s death in 1824, the Turks arrived to besiege the Greeks once more at ]. Turkish commander ] was joined by ], who crossed the ], and during the early part of 1826, Ibrahim had more artillery and supply brought in. However, his men were unable to storm the walls, and in 1826, following ], Turkish-Egyptian forces conquered the city on ], and exterminated almost its entire population. The attack increased support for the Greek cause in western ], with ] depicting the massacre in his painting ].
	==Aegean Islands==
	''See ], ]''

			===Crete===
	The islands ravaged several Greek islands during the Greek Revolution. The most famous of these are the ] and the ]. The Ottoman authorities soon after also began massacring Greek islanders, whose fleets were instrumental to the Greek cause. During the ] in ], one of the most notorious occurrences of the war, a total of about 110,000 Greek civilians perished; about 42,000 Greek islanders of Chios were hanged, butchered, starved or tortured to death; 45,000 were enslaved and died subsequently; and 23,000 were exiled and are unaccounted for. The French painter ] immortalised this massacre in his famous painting ].
			During the great massacre of ] on 24 June 1821, remembered in the area as "the great ravage" ("ο μεγάλος αρπεντές", "o megalos arpentes"), the Turks also killed the metropolite of Crete, ], and five more bishops: Neofitos of Knossos, Joachim of Herronissos, Ierotheos of Lambis, Zacharias of Sitia and Kallinikos, the titular bishop of ].<ref>Dr. Detorakis, Theocharis </ref>

			After the Sultan's vassal in Egypt was sent to intervene with the Egyptian fleet on 1825, Muhammad Ali's son, Ibrahim, landed in Crete and began to massacre the majority Greek community.<ref>{{harvp\|Peacock\|1982\|p=220}}</ref>
	According to Gordon's history of the revolution, two months after Kara Ali's landing on Chios, 45,000 Chiots were enslaved, including women and children. "Whole cargoes were shipped off to Constantinople, Egypt and Barbary...and for a long a period the slave market at ] displayed the bustle of active trade and attracted moslem purchasers from all parts of Asia Minor."<ref>Gordon, Thomas, ''History of the Greek Revolution'' p. 361. (2 vols.) (London) 1844</ref> Indeed, the extent of the massacres was so widespread by the time of Egyptian intervention that some have alleged ''the whole population of the Greek mainland was in danger of extermination.''<ref>Fisher, ''A History of Europe, pg. 881''</ref>

	==~~Central Greece~~==		===Cyprus===
			In July 1821, the head of the ] Archbishop ], along with 486 prominent ], amongst them the Metropolitans Chrysanthethos of ], Meletios of ] and Lavrentios of ], were executed by hanging or beheading by the Ottomans in ]. St. Clair writes:

			{{Blockquote
	], ])]]
			\|text=In Cyprus, which had enjoyed good community relations, there were at first only isolated murders, until the Pashas of Aleppo and Acre were ordered to send troops to secure the island. When their Syrian troops landed, law and order broke down. Nicosia and Famagusta were sacked and the island was given over to killing and pillage. The local Turks joined in. The archbishop, five bishops, and thirty-six other priests were put to death.{{Sfn\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=5}}
	Shortly after ]'s death in ], the Turks came to besiege the Greeks again in ]. The commander of the Turks, ] was joined by ] who crossed the ]. During the early part of 1826, Ibrahim had more artillery and supply brought in. However, his men were unable to storm the walls. In ], after ], the Turkish-Egyptian forces conquered the city on ] and exterminated almost its entire population. The death toll stands at approximately 8,000. The Turks displayed 3,000 severed heads off the walls. After this incident many people from western ] felt sympathy for the Greek cause. Within four years Missolonghi fell into Greek hands again. ] immortalized the massacre in his painting '']''.
			}}

			The French consul M. Méchain reported on 15 September 1821 that the local ], Küçük Mehmet, carried out several days of massacres in Cyprus since July 9 and continued on for forty days, despite the Vizier's command to end the plundering since 20 July 1821. On October 15, a massive ] mob seized and hanged an archbishop, five bishops, thirty-six ecclesiastics, and hanged most of the Greek Cypriots in ] and the other towns. By September and October 1822, sixty-two Greek Cypriot
	==Peloponnese==
			villages and hamlets had entirely disappeared and many people, including clerics, were massacred.<ref></ref><ref>{{harvp\|Cobham\|1908\|pp=454–455\|url=https://archive.org/stream/excerptacypriam00cobhgoog#page/n475/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{harvp\|Luke\|1921}}</ref>
	''See ]''

			===Peloponnese===
	The massacres in the Peloponnese were largely unique because nit was not only Greeks that were massacred in this region, both Turks and Greeks were slaughtered as there was widespread butchery of civilians. There is dispute as to whether or not massacres of Turkish civilians began with the outbreak of the revolution <ref name="Jelavich_Balkan217"/><ref>W.Alison Phillips, The War of Greek Independence,1821 to 1833,New york,1897</ref><ref>St. Clair (1972)</ref><ref>Finlay (1877)</ref> or that massacres of Turks were a response to the hanging of the Patriarch in Constantinople<ref>Harris Booras. "Hellenic Independence and America's Contribution to the Cause" Tuttle Co. 1934 p.24"</ref><ref>David Brewed. "The Greek War of Independence." Overlook TP 2003 p.64."</ref>.
			Historian David Brewer writes that in the first year of the revolution, a Turkish army descended on the city of ] and slaughtered all of the civilians of the settlement, razing the city.<ref>{{harvp\|Brewer\|2001\|p=66}}</ref> The forces of Ibrahim Pasha were extremely brutal in the Peloponnese, burning the major port of ] to the ground and slaughtering the city's inhabitants; they also ravaged the countryside and were heavily involved in the slave trade.

			===Macedonia===
	The two best known massacres in the Peloponnese are the ] and the numerous atrocities of the armies of ] when his forces invaded the Peloponnese. There exist different estimates regarding the numbers of Turks and Greeks killed in the Peloponnese. Estimates of Turks killed in the Peloponnese range from 15,000 to 60,000.
			Greek villages in Macedonia were destroyed, and many of the inhabitants were put to death.<ref>{{harvp\|Clare\|1876\|p=358}}</ref> Thomas Gordon reports executions of Greek civilians in ] and ], beheadings of merchants and clergy, and seventy burnt villages.<ref>{{harvp\|Gordon\|2000\|pp=176–177}}</ref>

			In May 1821, the governor Yusuf Bey ordered his men to kill any Greeks in Thessaloniki they found in the streets. Haïroullah Effendi reported that then and "for days and nights the air was filled with shouts, wails, screams." The Metropolitan bishop was brought in chains, together with other leading notables, and they were tortured and executed in the ] of the flour market. Some were hanged from the plane trees around the ]. Others were killed in the cathedral where they had fled for refuge, and their heads were gathered together as a present for Yusuf Bey.<ref>{{harvp\|Mazower\|2006\|pp=126–129}}</ref>
	In the first year of the revolution, a Turkish army descended on the city of Patras and slaughtered all of the civilians in the city, razing the town.<ref>David Brewed. "The Greek War of Independence." Overlook TP 2003 p.66."</ref> The forces of Ibrahim Pasha were extremely brutal in the Peloponnese, burning the major port of ] to the ground and slaughtering the city's inhabitants. They also ravaged the countryside and were heavily involved in the slave trade.<ref>P. Paroulakis, The Greeks: Their Struggle for Independence, 126</ref>

			In 1822, Abdul Abud, the Pasha of Thessaloniki, arrived on 14 March at the head of a 16,000 strong force and 12 cannons against ]. The Greeks defended Naousa with a force of 4,000 under the overall command of ] and ]. The Turks attempted to take the town on 16 March 1822, and on 18 and 19 March, without success. On 24 March the Turks began a bombardment of the city walls that lasted for days. After requests for the town's surrender were dismissed by the Greeks, the Turks charged the gate of St George on 31 March. The Turkish attack failed but on 6 April, after receiving fresh reinforcements of some 3,000 men, the Turkish army finally overcame the Greek resistance and entered the city. In an infamous incident, many of the women committed suicide by falling down a cliff over the small river Arapitsa. Abdul Abud laid the town and surrounding area to waste. The Greek population was massacred.<ref>{{harvp\|Fleming\|2007\|p=217}}</ref><ref>{{harvp\|Dakin\|1973\|p=66}}</ref><ref>{{harvp\|Vasdravelis\|1968\|pp=123–124, 136}}</ref> The destruction of Naousa marked the end of the Greek revolution in Macedonia in 1822.
	During the first year of the revolution, Greek rebels committed numerous atrocities against both civilians and prisoners of war. The worst Greek atrocity in terms of numbers killed was after the fall is Tripoli in 1822. The massacres in Vrachori commenced with the Jews and soon Mussulmans shared the same fate. <ref> George Finlay, History of the Greek Revolution and the Reign of King Otho, edited by H. F. Tozer, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1877 Reprint london 1971 SBN 900834 12 </ref>. A general massacre ensued the fall of Navarino on August 19, 1821. With the beginning of the revolt, the bishops and priests exhorted their parishioners to exterminate infidel Moslems. <ref>William St. Clair, That Greece Might Still Be Free The Philhellenes in the War of Independence, Oxford University Press London 1972 p.12 ISBN 0192151940 </ref> Many Turks were attacked and murdered in the mountains of Achaia on the 28th of March.<ref>George Finlay, History of the Greek Revolution and the Reign of King Otho, edited by H. F. Tozer, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1877 Reprint london 1971, p. 146 SBN 900834 12 9.</ref> On the 2nd of April the outbreak became general over the whole of Morea and on that day many Turks were murdered in different places. <ref>George Finlay, History of the Greek Revolution and the Reign of King Otho, edited by H. F. Tozer, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1877 Reprint london 1971 SBN 900834 12 9.</ref> On the third of April 1821, the Turks of Kalavryta surrendered upon promises of security but promise soon violated. <ref>Ibid.</ref>
	Historian W. Alison Phillips wrote in 1897:
	''"Everywhere, as though at a preconcerted signal, the peasantry rose, and massacred all the Turks —men,women and children— on whom they could lay hands. In the Morea shall no Turk be left. Nor in the whole wide world. Thus rang the song which, from mounth to mounth, announced the beginning of a war of extermination... Within three weeks of the outbreak of the revolt, not a moslem was left, save those who had succeded in escaping into the towns.'' <ref>W. Alison Phillips, The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833, London, 1897, p. 48</ref>

	==~~Crete~~==		=== Anatolia ===
			The Greek inhabitants of ] and ] suffered from massacres in the hands of the local Turks and the Ottoman authorities. According to St. Clair: "The town was burned to the ground and thousands of Greeks were massacred. The survivors, mostly women and children, were rounded up and sent to the slave markets at Smyrna and Constantinople".{{Sfn\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=5}} Regarding Smyrna, he wrote:
	In the great massacre of ] on 24th June 1821, that people remember as "the great ravage" ("ο μεγάλος αρπεντές", "o megalos arpentes"), the enraged Turks massacred the metropolite of Crete, ], and five more bishops: Neofitos of Knossos, Joachim of Herronissos, Ierotheos of Lambis, Zacharias of Sitia and Kallinikos, the titular bishop of ].<ref>Dr. Detorakis, Theocharis. "Brief Historical Review of the Holy Archdiocese of Crete" http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/church_history/detorakis_brief_historical_review.htm</ref>

			{{Blockquote
	==Cyprus==
			\|text=The city mob was joined by hordes of Turks from the interior who had banded together with the declared intention of marching to the scene of the revolt. Turkish troops stationed outside disobeyed their officers and entered the city. For a while the authorities attempted to keep control and, apart from sporadic murders and riots, some form of order was maintained. But when news arrived of the sinking of a Turkish ship, the situation got out of hand. The local Turkish magistrates were called on by the mob to sign a document authorizing the extermination of the Christians. When they refused they were themselves murdered. Three thousand armed Turks entered the Greek quarter and sated their lust for revenge on the defenceless populace.{{Sfn\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=5-6}}
	In July ], he head of the ] Archbishop ], along with 470 prominent Greek Cypriots, amongst them the Metropolitans Chrysanthos of ], Meletios of ] and Lavrentios of ], are executed by beheading or hanging by the Ottomans in ]<ref></ref>. This act was followed by the massacre of about 10,000 Greeks of the island.<ref>Putnam's Home Cyclopedia, G.P. Putnam & Co, p.343</ref>
			}}

			==Massacres of Turks, Albanians and other Muslims==
	==Jews==
			{{main\|Massacre of Tripoli\| Navarino Massacre}}
	According to the ], Jews curried disfavour with the Greeks by supporting the Ottoman Empire and during the Greek War of Independence, thousands of Jews were massacred alongside the Ottoman Turks by the Greek rebels and the Jewish communities of ], ], ] and ] were completely destroyed. A few survivors moved north to areas still under Ottoman rule.<ref></ref> Greek bishops and priests had exhorted their flocks to exterminate the Turkish and Jewish minoties.<ref>St. Clair (1972), p.198 </ref>

			===Peloponnese===
	Despite the fact that many Jews were killed, they were not targeted specifically: "''Such a tragedy seems to be more a side-effect of the butchering of the Turks of Tripolis, the last Ottoman stronghold in the South where the Jews had taken refuge from the fighting, than a specific action against Jews per se.''"<ref>Bowman, Steven, "History of the Jews in Greece" University of Massachusettes www.umass.edu/judaic/anniversaryvolume/articles/30-F3-Bowman.pdf </ref> Nevertheless, many Jews within Greece and throughout Europe were supporters of the Greek revolt, using their wealth (as in the case of the ]) as well as their political and public influence to assist the Greek cause. The Greek state also attracted many Jewish immigrants from the Ottoman Empire following its establishment, being one of the first countries in the world to grant ].<ref>Bowman, Steven, "History of the Jews in Greece" University of Massachusettes </ref>
			]]]

			According to historian ], during the beginning of the Greek revolution upwards of twenty thousand Turkish men, women and children were killed by their Greek neighbors in a few weeks of slaughter.<ref>{{harvp\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=1}}</ref> William St. Clair also argued that: "with the beginning of the revolt, the bishops and priests exhorted their parishioners to exterminate infidel Muslims."<ref name="St_Clair_12">{{harvp\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=12}}</ref> St. Clair wrote:
	==Prisoners of War==

			{{Blockquote
	] a POW who was executed]]
			\|text=The Turks of Greece left few traces. They disappeared suddenly and finally in the spring of 1821 unmourned and unnoticed by the rest of the world{{nbsp}}... It was hard to believe then that Greece once contained a large population of Turkish descent, living in small communities all over the country, prosperous farmers, merchants, and officials, whose families had known no other home for hundreds of years{{nbsp}}... They were killed deliberately, without qualm or scruple, and there was no regrets either then or later.<ref name="St_Clair_1972">{{harvp\|St. Clair\|1972}}</ref>
			}}

			Atrocities toward the Turkish civilian population inhabiting the Peloponnese had started in ] on 28 March, just with the beginning of the Greek revolt.<ref name="Finlay_1971_146">{{harvp\|Finlay\|1971\|p=146}}</ref> On 2 April, the outbreak became general over the whole of Peloponnese and on that day many Turks were murdered in different places.<ref name="Finlay_1971_146"/> On the third of April 1821, the Turks of ] surrendered upon promises of security which were afterwards violated.<ref name="Finlay_1971_146"/> Followingly, massacres ensued against the Turkish civilians in the towns of Peloponnese that the Greek revolutionaries had captured.
	Both sides routinely slaughtered prisoners of war, despite guarantees. The Turks would typically offer captured Greeks the option of conversion to Islam or death, and most Greeks chose the latter being deeply attached to their religion, with the most prominent example being ]. Turkish prisoners of war were typically at the mercy of the commanders that captured them, there exist examples of massacres of prisoners after they were promised guarantees of safety, such as the garrison of Kalamata, and of remarkably humane treatment such as the garrison of the ] of Athens which was saved by ].

			The Turks in ], weakened by the famine opened the gates of the city, and laid down their weapons. Six hundred of them had already gone on board the brigs, when the ] burst into the town and started murdering all those who had not yet reached to the shore or those who had chosen to stay in the town.<ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897\|p=55}}</ref> Those on the ships meanwhile were stripped of their clothes, beaten and left on a desolate rock in the Aegean, instead of being deported to Asia Minor as promised. Only a few of them were saved by a French merchant, called M. Bonfort.
	The most famous Greek prisoner of war who was killed by the Turks was ]. After a fierce battle in which Diakos fought bravely against overwhelming odds, the severely wounded Diakos was taken before ], a Turkish commander, who offered to make him an officer in the Ottoman army if he converted from ] to ]. Diakos refused the offer, replying "I was born a Greek, I shall die a Greek" ("Εγώ Ρωμιός γεννήθηκα, Ρωμιός θε να πεθάνω"). The next day he was ] and roasted alive. By popular tradition, as he was being roasted he said:

			A general massacre ensued the fall of ] on August 19, 1821. See ].
	''Look at the time ] chose to take me, now that the branches are flowering, and the earth sends forth grass (]: Για δες καιρό που διάλεξε ο Χάρος να με πάρει, τώρα π' ανθίζουν τα κλαριά και βγάνει η γης χορτάρι).'

			The worst Greek atrocity in terms of the numbers of victims involved was the massacre following the ] in 1821:
	==Janissaries==
	''See ].''

			{{Blockquote
	By ], the once elite corps of ], who were descended from Christian children that were kidnapped and forced to become soldier-slaves, were almost universally hated throughout Turkey due to the fact that they had become a hereditary caste of corrupt Turkish soldiers. When they noticed that the sultan ] was forming a new army and hiring European gunners, they mutinied, but the ]s forced them to retreat to their barracks in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. In the ensuing fight the Janissary barracks were set in flames by ] fire resulting in a massive number of casualties. Survivors were either exiled or executed and their possessions confiscated by the Sultan.
			\|text=For three days the miserable inhabitants were given over to lust and cruelty of a mob of savages. Neither sex nor age was spared. Women and children were tortured before being put to death. So great was the slaughter that ] himself says that, from the gate to the citadel his horse's hoofs never touched the ground. His path of triumph was carpeted with corpses. At the end of two days, the wretched remnant of the Mussulmans were deliberately collected, to the number of some two thousand souls, of every age and sex, but principally women and children, were led out to a ravine in the neighboring mountains and there butchered like cattle.<ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897\|p=61}}</ref>
			}}

			Although the total estimates of the casualties vary, the Turkish, Muslim Albanian and Jewish population of the Peloponnese had ceased to exist as a settled community.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> Some estimates of the Turkish and Muslim Albanian civilian deaths by the rebels range from 6,000 to 15,000 Muslim residents (out of the town's 40,000).<ref>{{harvp\|Jelavich\|1983\|p=217}}</ref> Massacres of Turkish civilians started simultaneously with the outbreak of the revolt.<ref name="St_Clair_12"/><ref name="Finlay_1971_146"/><ref>{{harvp\|Jelavich\|1983\|pp=229–239}}</ref><ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897}}</ref>
	== References ==
	{{reflist\|2}}

			Historian George Finlay claimed that the extermination of the Muslims in the rural districts was the result of a premeditated design and it proceeded more from the suggestions of men of letters, than from the revengeful feelings of the people.<ref>{{harvp\|Finlay\|1971\|p=152}}</ref> ] wrote of the massacres in a letter to ]: "Our friends in Greece are getting on famously. All the Morea is subdued, and much treasure was acquired with the capture of Tripoliza. Some cruelties have ensued. But the oppressor must in the end buy tyranny with blood – such is the ]".<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Shelley \|first=Lady Jane \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKFhAAAAcAAJ&dq=our+friends+in+greece+are+getting+on+famously.+all+the+morea+is+subdued,+and+much+treasure+was+acquired+with+the+capture+of+tripoliza.+some+cruelties+have+ensued.+but+the+oppressor+must+in+the+end+buy+tyranny+with+blood+%E2%80%93+such+is+the+law+of+necessity&pg=PA191 \|title=Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources. \|date=1859 \|publisher=Smith, Elder & Company \|language=en}}</ref>
	==Sources==
	*{{cite book \| first=George \| last=Finlay\| title=A History of Greece (Edited by H. F. Tozer) \| location = London \| year=1877}}
	*{{cite book \| first=George \| last=Finlay\| title=History of Greek Revolution \| location = London \| year=1861}}
	*{{cite book \| first=Thomas \| last=Gordon\| authorlink=Thomas Gordon (British army officer)\| title=History of the Greek Revolution \| location = London \| year=1844}}
	*{{cite book \| first=Peter H. \| last=Paroulakis\| title=The Greek War of Independence \|publisher=Hellenic International Press \| year=2000\|id=ISBN 978-0959089417}}
	*{{cite book \| first=William \| last=St. Clair\| title=That Greece Might Still Be Free - The Philhellenes in the War of Independence \|publisher=Oxford University Press \| location = London \| year=1972 \| id=ISBN 0192151940}}

			=== Central Greece ===
	]
			In ], 1,150 Turks, of whom only 180 were capable of bearing arms, surrendered upon promises of security. W. Alison Phillips noted that: "A scene of horror followed which has only too many parallels during the course of this horrible war."<ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897\|p=101}}</ref>
	]

			Vrachori, modern day ], was an important town in West-Central Greece. It contained, besides the Christian population, some five hundred ] families and about two hundred Jews.<ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897\|p=57}}</ref> The massacres in Vrachori commenced with the Jews and soon Musulmans shared the same fate.<ref name="Finlay_1971_146"/>

			===Aegean Islands===
			There were also massacres towards the Muslim inhabitants of the islands in the Aegean Sea, in the early years of the Greek revolt. According to historian William St. Clair, one of the aims of the Greek revolutionaries was to embroil as many Greek communities as possible in their struggle. Their technique was "to engineer some atrocity against the local Turkish population",<ref name=autogenerated2>{{harvp\|St. Clair\|1972\|p=79}}</ref> so that these different Greek communities would have to ally themselves with the revolutionaries fearing a retaliation from the Ottomans.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> In such a case, in March 1821, Greeks from Samos island had landed in the Chios and attacked the Muslim population living in that island.<ref name=autogenerated2 />

			The crews and passengers of Turkish ships captured by Greek cruisers were often put to death: two ] brigs captured a Turkish ship laden with a valuable cargo, and carrying a number of passengers. Among these was a recently deposed ], or patriarch of the Orthodox Muslims, who was said to be going to Mecca for pilgrimage. It was his efforts to prevent the cruel reprisals which, at Constantinople, followed the news of the massacres in Peloponnese, which brought him into disfavor, and caused his exile.<ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897\|p=66}}</ref> There were also several other Turkish families on board. British historian of the Greek revolt, W. Alison Phillips, noted (drawing from Finlay): "The Hydriots murdered them all in cold blood, helpless old men, ladies of rank, beautiful slaves, and little children were butchered like cattle. The venerable old man, whose crime had been an excess of zeal on behalf of the Greeks, was forced to see his family outraged and murdered before his eyes."<ref>{{harvp\|Phillips\|1897\|p=67}}</ref>

			==Massacres of Jews==

			Steven Bowman claims that despite the fact that many Jews were killed, they were not targeted specifically: "Such a tragedy seems to be more a side-effect of the butchering of the Turks of ]s, the last Ottoman stronghold in the South where the Jews had taken refuge from the fighting, than a specific action against Jews per se."<ref name="Bowman">{{cite web\|last=Bowman \|first=Steven \|title=History of the Jews in Greece \|publisher=University of Massachusetts \|url=http://www.umass.edu/judaic/anniversaryvolume/articles/30-F3-Bowman.pdf \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320161733/http://www.umass.edu/judaic/anniversaryvolume/articles/30-F3-Bowman.pdf \|archive-date=2009-03-20 }}</ref> However, in the case of Vrachori,<ref name="Finlay_1971_146"/> a massacre of a Jewish population occurred first, and the Jewish population in the ] regardless was effectively decimated, unlike that of the considerable Jewish populations of the ], ] and other areas of Greece in the several following conflicts between Greeks and the Ottomans later in the century. Many Jews within Greece and throughout Europe were however supporters of the Greek revolt, and many assisted the Greek cause. Following the state's establishment, it also then attracted many Jewish immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, as one of the first European states in the world to grant ].<ref name="Bowman"/>

			==References==
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			===Sources===
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			*{{cite book \|editor-last=Argenti \|editor-first=Philip P. \|year=1932 \|title=The Massacres of Chios Described in Contemporary Diplomatic Reports \|publisher=John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. \|location=London }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Booras \|first=Harris J. \|year=1934 \|title=Hellenic Independence and America's Contribution to the Cause \|publisher=Tuttle Co. }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Brewer \|first=David \|year=2001 \|title=The Greek War of Independence: the Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation \|publisher=Overlook Press \|isbn=1-58567-172-X }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Clare \|first=Israel Smith \|year=1876 \|title=The Centennial Universal History \|location=Philadelphia \|publisher=J. C. Mccurdy & Co. \|url=https://archive.org/details/centennialuniver00clar }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Cobham \|first=Claude Delaval \|year=1908 \|title=Exerpta Cypria \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|url=https://archive.org/stream/excerptacypriam00cobhgoog#page/n475/mode/2up}}
			*{{cite book \|last=Dakin \|first=Douglas \|author-link=Douglas Dakin \|year=1973 \|title=The Greek struggle for independence, 1821-1833 \|publisher=Batsford }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Finlay \|first=George \|year=1971 \|orig-year=1861 \|title=History of the Greek Revolution and the Reign of King Otho \|location=London \|editor=H. F. Tozer \|isbn=9780900834127 }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Fisher \|first=H. A. L. \|author-link=H. A. L. Fisher \|year=1965 \|title=A History of Europe \|publisher=Edward Arnold \|location=London }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Fleming \|first=Katherine Elizabeth \|year=2007 \|title=Greece: a Jewish history \|publisher=Princeton University Press }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Gordon \|first=Thomas \|year=2000 \|orig-year=1844 \|author-link=Thomas Gordon (British Army officer) \|title=History of the Greek Revolution \|location=London \|volume=1 \|publisher=Adamant Media Corporation }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Hellander \|first=Paul D. \|year=2008 \|title=Greece \|publisher=Lonely Planet \|isbn=9781741046564 }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Jelavich \|first=Barbara \|year=1983 \|title=History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries \|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbalkans0000jela \|url-access=registration \|location=New York, NY \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|isbn=978-0-521-27458-6 }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Lacroix \|first=Louis \|year=1853 \|title=Iles de la Grèce \|chapter=Samothrace \|publisher=Firmin-Didot }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Luke \|first=Harry \|year=1921 \|title=Cyprus under the Turks, 1571-1878 \|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd. \|isbn=1-85065-072-1 \|url=https://archive.org/stream/cyprusunderturk00unkngoog }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Mazower \|first=Mark \|year=2006 \|title=Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 \|publisher=Vintage }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Peacock \|first=Herbert Leonard \|year=1982 \|title=A History of Modern Europe \|publisher=Heinemann Educational Publishers \|edition=7th }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Phillips \|first=W. Alison \|author-link=Walter Alison Phillips \|year=1897 \|title=The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833 \|url=https://archive.org/details/wargreekindepen01philgoog \|location=London }}
			*{{cite book \|last=St. Clair \|first=William \|year=1972 \|title=That Greece Might Still Be Free - The Philhellenes in the War of Independence \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|location=London \|isbn=0-19-215194-0 \|url-access=registration \|url=https://archive.org/details/thatgreecemights0000stcl }}
			*{{cite book \|last=Vasdravelis \|first=John C. Vasdravellis \|year=1968 \|title=The Greek Struggle for Independence: The Macedonians in the Revolution of 1821 }}
			{{refend}}

			==Further reading==
			* General Makriyannis, ''Ἀπομνημονεύματα'' (Memoirs), Athens: 1907 (preface by Yannis Vlahogiannis; in Greek).
			*{{cite book \|last=Paroulakis \|first=Peter H. \|year=2000 \|title=The Greek War of Independence \|publisher=Hellenic International Press \|isbn=978-0-9590894-1-7 }}


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There were numerous massacres during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) perpetrated by both the Ottoman forces and the Greek revolutionaries. The war was characterized by a lack of respect for civilian life, and prisoners of war on both sides of the conflict. Massacres of Greeks took place especially in Ionia, Crete, Constantinople, Macedonia and the Aegean islands. Turkish, Albanian, Greeks, and Jewish populations, who were identified with the Ottomans inhabiting the Peloponnese, suffered massacres, particularly where Greek forces were dominant. Settled Greek communities in the Aegean Sea, Crete, Central and Southern Greece were wiped out, and settled Turkish, Albanian, Greeks, and smaller Jewish communities in the Peloponnese were destroyed.

Massacres of Greeks

Constantinople

Main article: Constantinople Massacre of 1821

Most of the Greeks in the Greek quarter of Constantinople were massacred. On Easter Sunday, 9 April 1821, Gregory V was hanged in the central outside portal of the Ecumenical Patriarchate by the Ottomans. His body was mutilated and thrown into the sea, where it was rescued by Greek sailors. One week later, the former Ecumenical Patriarch Cyril VI was hanged in the gate of the Adrianople's cathedral. This was followed by the execution of two Metropolitans and twelve Bishops by the Turkish authorities. By the end of April, a number of prominent Greeks had been decapitated by Turkish forces in Constantinople, including Constantine Mourousis, Levidis Tsalikis, Dimitrios Paparigopoulos, Antonios Tsouras, and the Phanariotes Petros Tsigris, Dimitrios Skanavis and Manuel Hotzeris, while Georgios Mavrocordatos was hanged. In May, the Metropolitans Gregorios of Derkon, Dorotheos of Adrianople, Ioannikios of Tyrnavos, Joseph of Thessaloniki, and the Phanariote Georgios Callimachi and Nikolaos Mourousis were decapitated on the Sultan's orders in Constantinople.

Aegean Islands

Main articles: Chios Massacre, Destruction of Psara, and Kasos massacre

The Turks and Egyptians ravaged several Greek islands during the Greek Revolution, including those of Samothrace (1821), Chios (1822), Kos, Rhodes, Kasos and Psara (1824). The massacre of Samothrace occurred on September 1, 1821, where a Turkish fleet under the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha killed most of the male population, took the women and children to slavery and burned down their homes. The Chios Massacre of 1822 became one of the most notorious occurrences of the war. It is estimated that up to 100,000 Chiots were killed or enslaved during the massacre, while 20,000 escaped as refugees. Mehmet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt, dispatched his fleet to Kasos and on May 27, 1824 killed the population. A few weeks later, the fleet under Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha destroyed the population of Psara.

Central Greece

Main article: Third Siege of Missolonghi

Shortly after Lord Byron's death in 1824, the Turks arrived to besiege the Greeks once more at Missolonghi. Turkish commander Reşid Mehmed Pasha was joined by Ibrahim Pasha, who crossed the Gulf of Corinth, and during the early part of 1826, Ibrahim had more artillery and supply brought in. However, his men were unable to storm the walls, and in 1826, following a one-year siege, Turkish-Egyptian forces conquered the city on Palm Sunday, and exterminated almost its entire population. The attack increased support for the Greek cause in western Europe, with Eugène Delacroix depicting the massacre in his painting Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi.

Crete

During the great massacre of Heraklion on 24 June 1821, remembered in the area as "the great ravage" ("ο μεγάλος αρπεντές", "o megalos arpentes"), the Turks also killed the metropolite of Crete, Gerasimos Pardalis, and five more bishops: Neofitos of Knossos, Joachim of Herronissos, Ierotheos of Lambis, Zacharias of Sitia and Kallinikos, the titular bishop of Diopolis.

After the Sultan's vassal in Egypt was sent to intervene with the Egyptian fleet on 1825, Muhammad Ali's son, Ibrahim, landed in Crete and began to massacre the majority Greek community.

Cyprus

In July 1821, the head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church Archbishop Kyprianos, along with 486 prominent Greek Cypriots, amongst them the Metropolitans Chrysanthethos of Paphos, Meletios of Kition and Lavrentios of Kyrenia, were executed by hanging or beheading by the Ottomans in Nicosia. St. Clair writes:

In Cyprus, which had enjoyed good community relations, there were at first only isolated murders, until the Pashas of Aleppo and Acre were ordered to send troops to secure the island. When their Syrian troops landed, law and order broke down. Nicosia and Famagusta were sacked and the island was given over to killing and pillage. The local Turks joined in. The archbishop, five bishops, and thirty-six other priests were put to death.

The French consul M. Méchain reported on 15 September 1821 that the local pasha, Küçük Mehmet, carried out several days of massacres in Cyprus since July 9 and continued on for forty days, despite the Vizier's command to end the plundering since 20 July 1821. On October 15, a massive Turkish Cypriot mob seized and hanged an archbishop, five bishops, thirty-six ecclesiastics, and hanged most of the Greek Cypriots in Larnaca and the other towns. By September and October 1822, sixty-two Greek Cypriot villages and hamlets had entirely disappeared and many people, including clerics, were massacred.

Peloponnese

Historian David Brewer writes that in the first year of the revolution, a Turkish army descended on the city of Patras and slaughtered all of the civilians of the settlement, razing the city. The forces of Ibrahim Pasha were extremely brutal in the Peloponnese, burning the major port of Kalamata to the ground and slaughtering the city's inhabitants; they also ravaged the countryside and were heavily involved in the slave trade.

Macedonia

Greek villages in Macedonia were destroyed, and many of the inhabitants were put to death. Thomas Gordon reports executions of Greek civilians in Serres and Thessaloniki, beheadings of merchants and clergy, and seventy burnt villages.

In May 1821, the governor Yusuf Bey ordered his men to kill any Greeks in Thessaloniki they found in the streets. Haïroullah Effendi reported that then and "for days and nights the air was filled with shouts, wails, screams." The Metropolitan bishop was brought in chains, together with other leading notables, and they were tortured and executed in the square of the flour market. Some were hanged from the plane trees around the Rotonda. Others were killed in the cathedral where they had fled for refuge, and their heads were gathered together as a present for Yusuf Bey.

In 1822, Abdul Abud, the Pasha of Thessaloniki, arrived on 14 March at the head of a 16,000 strong force and 12 cannons against Naousa. The Greeks defended Naousa with a force of 4,000 under the overall command of Zafeirakis Theodosiou and Anastasios Karatasos. The Turks attempted to take the town on 16 March 1822, and on 18 and 19 March, without success. On 24 March the Turks began a bombardment of the city walls that lasted for days. After requests for the town's surrender were dismissed by the Greeks, the Turks charged the gate of St George on 31 March. The Turkish attack failed but on 6 April, after receiving fresh reinforcements of some 3,000 men, the Turkish army finally overcame the Greek resistance and entered the city. In an infamous incident, many of the women committed suicide by falling down a cliff over the small river Arapitsa. Abdul Abud laid the town and surrounding area to waste. The Greek population was massacred. The destruction of Naousa marked the end of the Greek revolution in Macedonia in 1822.

Anatolia

The Greek inhabitants of Smyrna and Kydonies suffered from massacres in the hands of the local Turks and the Ottoman authorities. According to St. Clair: "The town was burned to the ground and thousands of Greeks were massacred. The survivors, mostly women and children, were rounded up and sent to the slave markets at Smyrna and Constantinople". Regarding Smyrna, he wrote:

The city mob was joined by hordes of Turks from the interior who had banded together with the declared intention of marching to the scene of the revolt. Turkish troops stationed outside disobeyed their officers and entered the city. For a while the authorities attempted to keep control and, apart from sporadic murders and riots, some form of order was maintained. But when news arrived of the sinking of a Turkish ship, the situation got out of hand. The local Turkish magistrates were called on by the mob to sign a document authorizing the extermination of the Christians. When they refused they were themselves murdered. Three thousand armed Turks entered the Greek quarter and sated their lust for revenge on the defenceless populace.

Massacres of Turks, Albanians and other Muslims

Main articles: Massacre of Tripoli and Navarino Massacre

Peloponnese

According to historian William St. Clair, during the beginning of the Greek revolution upwards of twenty thousand Turkish men, women and children were killed by their Greek neighbors in a few weeks of slaughter. William St. Clair also argued that: "with the beginning of the revolt, the bishops and priests exhorted their parishioners to exterminate infidel Muslims." St. Clair wrote:

The Turks of Greece left few traces. They disappeared suddenly and finally in the spring of 1821 unmourned and unnoticed by the rest of the world ... It was hard to believe then that Greece once contained a large population of Turkish descent, living in small communities all over the country, prosperous farmers, merchants, and officials, whose families had known no other home for hundreds of years ... They were killed deliberately, without qualm or scruple, and there was no regrets either then or later.

Atrocities toward the Turkish civilian population inhabiting the Peloponnese had started in Achaia on 28 March, just with the beginning of the Greek revolt. On 2 April, the outbreak became general over the whole of Peloponnese and on that day many Turks were murdered in different places. On the third of April 1821, the Turks of Kalavryta surrendered upon promises of security which were afterwards violated. Followingly, massacres ensued against the Turkish civilians in the towns of Peloponnese that the Greek revolutionaries had captured.

The Turks in Monemvasia, weakened by the famine opened the gates of the city, and laid down their weapons. Six hundred of them had already gone on board the brigs, when the Maniots burst into the town and started murdering all those who had not yet reached to the shore or those who had chosen to stay in the town. Those on the ships meanwhile were stripped of their clothes, beaten and left on a desolate rock in the Aegean, instead of being deported to Asia Minor as promised. Only a few of them were saved by a French merchant, called M. Bonfort.

A general massacre ensued the fall of Navarino on August 19, 1821. See Navarino Massacre.

The worst Greek atrocity in terms of the numbers of victims involved was the massacre following the Fall of Tripolitsa in 1821:

For three days the miserable inhabitants were given over to lust and cruelty of a mob of savages. Neither sex nor age was spared. Women and children were tortured before being put to death. So great was the slaughter that Kolokotronis himself says that, from the gate to the citadel his horse's hoofs never touched the ground. His path of triumph was carpeted with corpses. At the end of two days, the wretched remnant of the Mussulmans were deliberately collected, to the number of some two thousand souls, of every age and sex, but principally women and children, were led out to a ravine in the neighboring mountains and there butchered like cattle.

Although the total estimates of the casualties vary, the Turkish, Muslim Albanian and Jewish population of the Peloponnese had ceased to exist as a settled community. Some estimates of the Turkish and Muslim Albanian civilian deaths by the rebels range from 6,000 to 15,000 Muslim residents (out of the town's 40,000). Massacres of Turkish civilians started simultaneously with the outbreak of the revolt.

Historian George Finlay claimed that the extermination of the Muslims in the rural districts was the result of a premeditated design and it proceeded more from the suggestions of men of letters, than from the revengeful feelings of the people. Mary Shelley wrote of the massacres in a letter to Maria Gisborne: "Our friends in Greece are getting on famously. All the Morea is subdued, and much treasure was acquired with the capture of Tripoliza. Some cruelties have ensued. But the oppressor must in the end buy tyranny with blood – such is the law of necessity".

Central Greece

In Athens, 1,150 Turks, of whom only 180 were capable of bearing arms, surrendered upon promises of security. W. Alison Phillips noted that: "A scene of horror followed which has only too many parallels during the course of this horrible war."

Vrachori, modern day Agrinio, was an important town in West-Central Greece. It contained, besides the Christian population, some five hundred Muslim families and about two hundred Jews. The massacres in Vrachori commenced with the Jews and soon Musulmans shared the same fate.

Aegean Islands

There were also massacres towards the Muslim inhabitants of the islands in the Aegean Sea, in the early years of the Greek revolt. According to historian William St. Clair, one of the aims of the Greek revolutionaries was to embroil as many Greek communities as possible in their struggle. Their technique was "to engineer some atrocity against the local Turkish population", so that these different Greek communities would have to ally themselves with the revolutionaries fearing a retaliation from the Ottomans. In such a case, in March 1821, Greeks from Samos island had landed in the Chios and attacked the Muslim population living in that island.

The crews and passengers of Turkish ships captured by Greek cruisers were often put to death: two Ηydriot brigs captured a Turkish ship laden with a valuable cargo, and carrying a number of passengers. Among these was a recently deposed Sheikh-ul-Islam, or patriarch of the Orthodox Muslims, who was said to be going to Mecca for pilgrimage. It was his efforts to prevent the cruel reprisals which, at Constantinople, followed the news of the massacres in Peloponnese, which brought him into disfavor, and caused his exile. There were also several other Turkish families on board. British historian of the Greek revolt, W. Alison Phillips, noted (drawing from Finlay): "The Hydriots murdered them all in cold blood, helpless old men, ladies of rank, beautiful slaves, and little children were butchered like cattle. The venerable old man, whose crime had been an excess of zeal on behalf of the Greeks, was forced to see his family outraged and murdered before his eyes."

Massacres of Jews

Steven Bowman claims that despite the fact that many Jews were killed, they were not targeted specifically: "Such a tragedy seems to be more a side-effect of the butchering of the Turks of Tripolis, the last Ottoman stronghold in the South where the Jews had taken refuge from the fighting, than a specific action against Jews per se." However, in the case of Vrachori, a massacre of a Jewish population occurred first, and the Jewish population in the Peloponnese regardless was effectively decimated, unlike that of the considerable Jewish populations of the Aegean, Epirus and other areas of Greece in the several following conflicts between Greeks and the Ottomans later in the century. Many Jews within Greece and throughout Europe were however supporters of the Greek revolt, and many assisted the Greek cause. Following the state's establishment, it also then attracted many Jewish immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, as one of the first European states in the world to grant legal equality to Jews.

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Massacres of Greeks

Constantinople

Aegean Islands

Central Greece

Crete

Cyprus

Peloponnese

Macedonia

Anatolia

Massacres of Turks, Albanians and other Muslims

Peloponnese

Central Greece

Aegean Islands

Massacres of Jews

References

Sources

Further reading