Kasos Massacre

The Kasos massacre was the massacre of Greek civilians during the Greek War of Independence by Ottoman forces after the Greek Christian population rebelled against the Ottoman Empire.

On 7 June 1824, Mehmet Ali's men landed on Kasos and defeated its defences.

According to Lonely Planet tourist guide, 7,000 inhabitants were killed in the event[1]; the island was allegedly burnt to the ground. According to various Greek or Greek-friendly sources (Greek freedom fighter Antonios Miaoulis, Greek historian Anastasios Orlandos, British philhellene Thomas Gordon), no general massacre actually occurred, thanks to the interposition of Christian Albanian mercenaries in Egyptian service, but 2000 women and children were enslaved and brought to Egypt.[2][3][4] According to Gordon 500 Greeks fighters were killed in action.

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  1. ↑ Paul D. Hellander, Greece, pg 530
  2. ↑ Antonios Miaoulis, Συνοπτική ιστορία των ελληνικών ναυμαχιών (1833, reprinted by K. Xanthi, 1871), p.55
  3. ↑ Gordon, History of the Greek Revolution, t. 2, Édimbourg, Blackwood, 1832, p.132
  4. ↑ Anastasios Orlandos, Nautika, ētoi, Historia tōn kata to hyper anexartēsias tēs Hellados agōna pepragmenōn vol.2 (1869), pp.26-27

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