Historical evidence atlas

Greek Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

A source-aware historical atlas with event points, regional layers, routes, type filters, timeline, and evidence cards. Coordinates are presented as provisional research locations and retain record-level evidence status pending source-table reconciliation.

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