This Week in History: The Asia Minor Catastrophe

It’s the 100th Anniversary of an event described as ‘changing the face of Modern Greece’, the destruction of the Mediterranean metropolis of Smyrna by the advancing Turkish army.

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It signalled the end of Greece’s presence in Asia Minor and became known as ‘The Asia Minor Catastrophe’. Indira Naidoo with Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney, look back on the significance of this catastrophe in This Week in History…