WAVE OF TERROR - ΦΡΙΚΗ - HISTORICAL TRAUMA - MY TORTURED COUNTRY 

720 BCE   battle between Argos and Sparta

669 BCE   Battle of Ysias, victory of Argos over Sparta, according to Pausanias 2.24.6.

417 BCE    Peloponnesian War, Spartans destroy the city of Ysias

416 BCE   Melian massacre, Athenians killed all the adult men, enslaved the women and children

213  BCE   Messene massacre

184 BCE   Maroneia massacre

146 BCE   destruction of Corinth, population partly massacred, partly enslaved 

1453-1821   occupation of Greece by the Ottoman Turks

1789-1793    Souliote War

12-16-1803   village of Zaloggou under attack, mass suicide of women and children

9-1-1822   massacre of Samothrace by the Ottomans

4-22-1822   city of Naousa under attack, mass suicide of women and children

1821-1829   Greek Revolution - Greek War of Independence against the Turkish Ottoman rule

1822   massacre of Chios by the Ottomans

1824   Lord Byron turns toward military action and dies of disease at Missolonghi 

1825   massacre at Missolonghi  

1913-1923   Pontic genocide, 300,000 - 900,000 deaths

1912-1913   Eastern Thrace, 15,690 massacred 

1914   Phocaea genocide

1922   'burning of Smyrna'  10,000-125,000 deaths, Greek and Armenian, refugees ran to the sea to escape

1940-1941   Italian occupation 

1943   the massacre of Domeniκon committed by the Italians

1941-1943   German occupation

1943    Kommeno mass murder, looting, arson, 317 deaths, rapes, corpses mutilated, the only escape route was across the river by boat, Germans set the village ablaze 

12-13-1943   massacre of Kalavryta committed by the Germans, mass murder of men, boys, elderly

10-3-1943   Lingiades massacre, majority of victims were women, children, and elderly

9-14-1943   Viannos massacres, Crete mass extermination campaign launched by German forces

9- 19-29-1943   Paramythia executions, massacre, Nazi-Albanian war crime

10-6-1943   Kali Syκra mass executions, 12 women were burnt alive for refusing to comply

10-8-1943   Kalliκratis mass executions by German Army and Greek collaborationist paramilitary forces, declared a martyred village in 10-2018.

3-24-1944   Greek Jews of Ioannina deported to Auschhwitz, 500 children under the age of 13, 89 escaped by hiding with Christian families, or fled to other countries

1944  Distomo massacre committed by the Germans

9-18-1944   44 men slaughtered at Achladoκambos, estimated 670 of this area

1945-1949   Greek civil war - murders, atrocities, paidomazoma

it is but law that when the red drops have spilled upon the ground they cry aloud for fresh blood for the death act calls out on Fury to bring out of those who were slain before now ruin on ruin accomplished (Choeforoi 400-404) Aeschylus ca. 525-456 BCE

My grandfather helped build the Trancontinental Railroad. He laid tracks and endured anti-Greek sentiment. He returned to Achladoκambos.

      Too horrible to tell and for the eyes to see - forced deportation, genocide, death marches, torture, war, starvation, villages burned, mass executions, rape, throats slit, families slaughtered, paidomazoma - poor Greece, poor Greeks, cruel Μοιραι/Moirai/Fate, cursed mother endure horror more

       In a Greek place and time, Achladoκampos Αχλαδοκαμπος, in a small mountain village located 479 meters towards the top of Mount Artemisio, in Argoliς Peloponnesoς, ... my great-grandmother Chrysoula, grandmother Yannoula, mother Angeliκi gathered olives from trees bearing bright fruit and firewood for the hearth. I similarly follow, but in a strange and foreign ξενο land.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

     'let me tell you . . . when we were little, following . . . well-worked garden κιπος . . . roses, lillies, exceptionally fragrant . . . bees, stately dahlias, basil, fig trees, ants, lemon trees, marigolds, butterflies, poppies, spearmint, . . . blossoming whenever seasons of Zeus came down'  Odyssey 10.338-44   

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