Reconstructed interactive project

Greek Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

A full working reconstruction of the map concept: event points, regional layers, routes, type filters, timeline, and evidence cards. The coordinates below are demo data until the original source table is supplied.

Eastern Thrace
Pontus
Asia Minor

Geographic map

Real coordinate core

This map uses real geographic coordinates for regional cores: Eastern Thrace, Pontus, Asia Minor / Smyrna, and the Anatolian interior. Event attribution remains reconstructed until the original source table is added.

1914 / deportation

1914 Greek deportations: Eastern Thrace core

Public sources describe forced expulsion of Ottoman Greeks from Eastern Thrace and the Aegean coast in 1914; Rodosto/Tekirdag is used as a regional core.

Rodosto / Tekirdag, Eastern Thrace / regional core
June 1914 / massacre

Massacre of Phocaea / Foça

Greek-Genocide.net describes the pillage of Foça and massacre of over 100 Greeks in June 1914, approximately 50 km northwest of Smyrna.

Eski Foça / Phocaea / town coordinate
May 1917 / deportation

Evacuation of Ayvalık

Public sources describe the May 1917 evacuation of Ayvalık as part of Ottoman government policies against the ethnic Greek population.

Ayvalık / town coordinate
1920-1921 / massacre

İzmit / Nicomedia massacres

Greek-Genocide.net describes survivor testimonies from the Nicomedia/İzmit massacres of 1920-1921.

İzmit / Nicomedia / city coordinate
1921-1922 / deportation

Samsun deportations

The Samsun deportations page cites deportations from Samsun resuming in 1922 and a U.S. report of 1,300 Greek women, children and old men being sent out.

Samsun / city coordinate
September 1921 / execution

Amasya trials

Public summaries describe the 1921 Amasya trials as ad hoc trials used to execute Pontic Greek representatives and elites.

Amasya / city coordinate
1916-1923 / massacre

Pontus violence cluster

Spatial marker for Pontus as a key memory region in Greek Genocide documentation and public history.

Pontus / regional core
September 1922 / destruction

Burning / destruction of Smyrna

Greek-Genocide.net describes Smyrna in September 1922 as the final phase of the Greek Genocide, targeting the Christian population, primarily Greeks and Armenians.

Smyrna / Izmir / city coordinate
August 1921 / route

Merzifon-Samsun deportation route core

Greek-Genocide.net's Mark Ward testimony map includes a 30 Aug 1921 deportation entry for Greeks from Merzifon and villages between there and Samsun.

Merzifon / Samsun route / route core