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Greeks of Asia Minor and Greeks of Hellas
Otherness and identities during the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor (1919-1922) In May 1919, the first Greek soldiers landed in Smyrna. This new episode of Greco-Turkish warfare on the soil of Asia Minor, lasting three years and four months, was part of the political and military continuity of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the Great War (1914-1918). It ended with the rout of Greek troops in August-September 1922 and an exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey.
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Arcadia
The Peloponnese, certainly much visited, is otherwise still part of the legend that is its own. Greece Otherwise privileges in some way its inland lands, its mountains and its rivers, first and foremost in high season. This is how we revisited Stemnítsa and its surroundings, in the heart of Gortynia and the regional district of Arcadia, a micro-region that takes its name from the ancient city of Gortyn.