APArarat Petrosyan

Greek Genocide Resource Center massacre corpus / 1915 Apr

Gümüshane

4,000 Greeks from the region escaped from Turkish military authorities and sought refuge in the forests of Gümüshane . Hard pressed by hunger, some managed to flee towards Russia while the remainder were caught, tortured then massacred, their bodies thrown into the Pyxites River.

People layerGreek
Typemassacre
Coordinates40.4603, 39.4814
Confidencecity coordinate

Record dossier

Provenance, geocoding, and review state

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Dataset

Greek Genocide Resource Center massacre corpus

Source record

greek-massacre-031

Place authority

Gümüshane

Review status

geocoded; citation normalization pending

Geocode method

city coordinate

CSV path

/data/greek-genocide/ggrc_massacres_geocoded.csv

Geometry

Point coordinate core

Record graph

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Trabzon

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Trabzon · relation score 14 Greek Genocide Resource Center massacre corpus

Thersa (Gr)

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Thersa (Gr) · relation score 14 Greek Genocide Resource Center massacre corpus

Erzurum

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Sanoyia (Gr)

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Seyrek

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Didymoteicho

Greek / massacre / 1914

Didymoteicho · relation score 10

Method note

How this record entered the atlas

Parsed from the GGRC list and map of massacres, then geocoded into a point layer for atlas review.