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.
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 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 / massacreMassacre 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 / deportationEvacuation 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 / massacreİzmit / Nicomedia massacres
Greek-Genocide.net describes survivor testimonies from the Nicomedia/İzmit massacres of 1920-1921.
İzmit / Nicomedia / city coordinate 1921-1922 / deportationSamsun 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 / executionAmasya 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 / massacrePontus violence cluster
Spatial marker for Pontus as a key memory region in Greek Genocide documentation and public history.
Pontus / regional core September 1922 / destructionBurning / 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 / routeMerzifon-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