Crossing the Aegean

An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

320 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees. Known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe by the Greeks, it marked the establishment of the independent nation state for the Turks. The consequences of this event have received surprisingly little attention despite the considerable relevance for the contemporary situation in the Balkans. This volume addresses the challenge of writing history from both sides of the Aegean and provides, for the first time, a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue across national boundaries.

• Reihe: Forced Migration
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Soziale und ethische Themen Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung
• ISBN: 9781571815620
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2003
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Renée Hirschon