From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia list article
This article
needs additional citations for verification .
Please help by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – · · · scholar · JSTOR (May 2012 ) (Learn how and when to remove this template message )
Ancient Greece [ ]
Notes
Massacre of Argos
494 BC
Argos
6,000
Sparta
Argive survivors of the defeat at Sepeia burned alive in the sacred grove of Argos
Olynthus Massacre
479 BC
Olynthus
All inhabitants killed
Persian Empire
Drabeskos massacre
465 BC
Draviskos
Athenian colonists
Thracians
Athenian colonists slain by Thracians.
Massacre of Plataea
431 BC
Plataea
150
Plataea
150 Theban POWs executed
Fall of Plataea
427 BC
Plataea
200
Sparta
200 Plataean and Athenian POWs executed
First massacre of Corcyran oligarchs
427 BC
Corcyra
Unknown
Corcyran popular party
Corcyran oligarchs executed by the popular party
Mytilenean revolt
427 BC
Mytilene
1,000
Athens
Ringleaders of the rebellion executed
Helot Massacre
425 BC
Peloponnese
2,000
Sparta
2,000 Helot slaves executed by Sparta
Second massacre of Corcyran oligarchs
425 BC
Corcyra
Unknown
Corcyran popular party
Corcyran oligarchs executed by the popular party
Destruction of Scione
421 BC
Scione
All of Scione's men killed
Athens
Men killed, women and children enslaved
Massacre of Hysiae
417 BC
Hysiae
All male citizens of Hysiae killed
Sparta
Destruction of Melos
416 BC
Milos
All Melian men killed
Athens
Women and children enslaved.
Massacre of Mycalessus
413 BC
Mycalessus
All inhabitants of Mycalessus killed
Thracian mercenaries of Athens
Corcyra Massacre
361 BC
Corcyra
Unknown
Athens
Many Corcyrans killed
Battle of Thebes
December 335 BC
Thebes
6,000
Macedonian Army
The city was completely destroyed and 30,000 were enslaved
Argos Massacre
315 BC
Argos
500
Macedonian Army
500 Argive senators burned alive
Orchomenus Massacre
313 BC
Orchomenus
Unknown
Oligarchs supported by Macedon
Messene Massacre
213 BC
Messene
200
Demagogues supported by Macedon
200 magistrates and their supporters killed
Maroneia Massacre
184 BC
Maroneia
Unknown
Macedonian Army
Many Maronites killed
Aetolian massacre
167 BC
Aetolia
550
Roman Army
550 Aetolian leaders killed by Roman soldiers.
Destruction of Corinth
146 BC
Corinth
All Corinthian men killed
Roman Army
Complete destruction of the city. Population partly massacred, partly enslaved.
Asiatic Vespers
88 BC
Asia (Roman province)
80,000–150,000
Kingdom of Pontus led by Mithridates VI
Romans and Italians killed. Served as a casus belli for the First Mithridatic War .
Sack of Athens
86 BC
Athens
Unknown
Roman Army
Population partly massacred and large parts of the city burned down.
Roman Empire / Byzantine Empire [ ]
Notes
Massacre of Thessalonica
April 390
Thessalonica
7,000
Late Roman army
After orders of Emperor Theodosius I
N/A
1171
Constantinople , Genoese quarter
Unknown
Venetians
Genoese victims. This was not the first time Venetian merchants had gotten out of hand. Given much freedom and power in their trade with the Empire, they had misused this freedom. In response, Emperor Manuel I cracked down on the Venetian merchants and this led to the Byzantine-Venetian war .
Massacre of the Latins
April 1182
Constantinople
Unknown
Usurper Andronikos Komnenos and a mob of his Greek, Eastern Christian supporters
Massacre of Latins/Roman Catholics
Sack of Thessalonica (1185)
9–24 August 1185
Thessalonica
7,000
Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily
Sack of Constantinople (1204) Fourth Crusade
1204
Constantinople
Unknown
Catholics /Crusaders
Orthodox Christians , Constantinopolitans
Venetian-Genoese War
1296
Constantinople
Unknown
Genoese
Venetian civilian victims
Ottoman Greece [ ]
Notes
Ottoman conquest of Lesbos
15 September 1461
Lesbos
300
Ottoman Army
300 Italian soldiers massacred by Ottoman Army under Mehmed II .
March 1770
Peloponnese, mainly Tripolitsa
3,000-10,000 (plus 20,000 refugees)
Albanian irregulars
After the failure of Orlov Revolt .
October 1798
Preveza
50,000 - 60,0000
Albanian Muslims
Complete destruction, devastation of the city.
Greek Revolution (1821–1832) [ ]
Further information: Massacres during the Greek Revolution
Notes
Constantinople massacre
April–July 1821
Occurred in Constantinople, but contemporary pogrom activities spread in parts of present-day Greece (Kos , Rhodes )[1]
unknown
Ottoman government
May 1821
Thessaloniki
unknown
Ottoman government
Governor Yusuf Bey ordered to kill any Greeks found in the streets.[citation needed ]
Navarino massacre
19 August 1821
Pylos
3,000
Greek irregular forces
1 September 1821
Samothrace
1,000[2]
Ottoman army
Complete destruction, devastation of the island.
Tripolitsa massacre
23 September 1821
Tripolis
6,000-15,000
Greek irregular forces
Chios massacre
March 1822
Chios
20,000–52,000
Ottoman government
Naousa massacre
13 April 1822
Naousa
2,000
Ottoman army
Kasos massacre
7 June 1824
Kasos
7,000
Ottoman-Egyptian army
Destruction of Psara
July 1824
Psara
7,000
Ottoman army
Third Siege of Messolonghi
April 1826
Messolonghi
8,000
Ottoman/Egyptian army
Messolonghi received the honorary title of Hiera Polis (Sacred City) by the Greek state.
First Balkan War [ ]
Second Balkan War [ ]
World War II [ ]
References [ ]
^ Clair, William St. (2008). That Greece might still be free (New ed., rev., corr., and with additional ill. and updated bibliography. ed.). Cambridge: Open Book Publ. pp. 4 –5. ISBN 9781906924003 . massacred+1821+constantinople+greeks.
^ Charles Vellay, L'irrédentisme hellénique , 1913, 329 pages. page 131: [1]
^ Kramer, Alan (2008). Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War . OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780191580116 .
^ Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published by the Endowment Washington, D.C. 1914, p. 83 "While emphasizing the heavy responsibility which falls on the Bulgarian officers for this catastrophe, we do not hesitate to conclude that the massacre at Doxato was a Turkish and not a Bulgarian atrocity."
^ The Nation and Athenæum . Nation Publishing Company Limited. 1914.
^ "<italic>Report of the International Commission to inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars</italic>. [Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education, Publication No. 4.] (Washington, D. C.: Published by the Endowment. 1914. Pp. 413.)". The American Historical Review . April 1915. doi :10.1086/ahr/20.3.638 . ISSN 1937-5239 .
hide By past country or territory
By country or territory
By war
By group
See also
List of genocides by death toll
List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
Massacres
Massacres by country
Massacres by year
Categories :
Lists of massacres by country Greece history-related lists Massacres in Greece Lists of events in Greece Hidden categories:
Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles needing additional references from May 2012 All articles needing additional references Articles using small message boxes Incomplete lists from May 2011 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from February 2014