Smyrna was a prosperous, cosmopolitan port on Turkey's Aegean coast where Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Jews and other nationalities lived in harmony. In his searingly vivid account of Smyrna's ...

Basic Books, $27.95, 426 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN On Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1922, the ancient city of Smyrna (now Izmir) on the Aegean Sea, which had long been a prosperous cosmopolitan ...

Christos Papoutsy had heard the story of Smyrna all his life. His father was from a nearby island in the Mytilene area of Greece. It was there refuges of the 1922 "Great Catastrophe" were first taken ...

On June 21, Turkish media reported that the Saint-Jean Theologos Greek Girls School in Smyrna, now known as Izmir, which has been empty since the extermination of the city's Greek Christians in 1922, ...

Maria Iliou's haunting documentary recounts tragic tale of her ancestral city's burning during the Greco-Turkish War. By THR Staff The elegiac documentary Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan ...

DENVER, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The critically acclaimed epic war drama SMYRNA, hits 700+ screens in select theaters nationwide through Fathom Events, as a one-night-only event on Thursday, ...

HIS previous subjects include the spice wars and the white slave trade – now journalist-cum-historian Giles Milton has turned his attention to the massacre of Smyrna, the modern-day Turkish city of ...

It is axiomatic that history repeats itself and while Giles Milton is too subtle a writer to underline a moral, the catastrophe that overtook Smyrna in 1922 is echoed by more recent events in Rwanda ...