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Street name: Smirnis
Category: Place
Category in detail: City
Description: Smyrna (Turkish: İzmir "Izmir") is the third largest city in Turkey. It was inhabited by Greek populations since ancient times until the Destruction of Smyrna in 1922, or otherwise the Great Fire of Smyrna, as the events that refer to the massacre of the Greek and Armenian population of Smyrna by the Kemalist army are known, as well as the burning of the city. in September 1922 and the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. The exchange was based on religious identity, and included the Greek Orthodox Christian citizens of Turkey, and the Muslim citizens of Greece. It was a mandatory exchange of large-scale populations. The only one in world history dictated by a transnational convention that followed the Treaty of Lausanne. It concerned about 2 million people (about 1.5 million Greeks in Anatolia, and 500,000 Muslims in Greece), most of whom became refugees, losing de jure the citizenship of the country they left behind
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