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Kayaköy, Turkey: church Interior of a church in the abandoned village of Kayaköy, near Fethiye, southwestern Turkey. The village was deserted largely as a result of the compulsory population exchange at the end of the second Greco-Turkish War (1921–22).

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Greco-Turkish wars, (1897 and 1921–22), two military conflicts between the Greeks and the Turks. The first war, also called the Thirty Days’ War, took place against a background of growing Greek concern over conditions in Crete, which was under Turkish domination and where relations between the Christians and their Muslim rulers had been deteriorating steadily. The outbreak in 1896 of rebellion on Crete, fomented in part by the secret Greek nationalistic society called Ethniki Etairia,...

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