It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that Turkish soldiers removed 520 blocks of marble from the ...
In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam would become a Turk, which meant accepting Islam. At the time, the word ...
The Ottoman Empire, founded in 1299, lasted for about 600 years. Ottoman Turkey committed genocide against Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians from 1913 to 1923. The empire was officially disbanded ...