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28th October 2024, 06:22 PM | #1 |
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Hi, in Greek script is written the name of the city this dagger was made, and the date which is 16th of September 1910, in Kydonies-Aivali. Both names the Greek and the Turkish are written, of the town of Ayvalik in Asia Minor.
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Yesterday, 01:07 AM | #2 |
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According to online sources, Ayvalik was a predominantly Greek town that was racially oppressed by the Ottomans, starting in 1910. In 1917, during WWI, the German General Otto Liman von Sanders, military advisor to the Ottomans, ordered the complete evacuation of the Greek inhabitants. The forced march into inner Anatolia was accompanied by many atrocities and substantial genocide of the Greek population.
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