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040 _aKenya National Library Service
082 _a949.5072 MIL
100 _aMilton, Giles
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245 _aParadise lost :
_bsmyrna 1922 the destruction of islam's city of tolerance/
_cGiles Milton
300 _a426 pages;
_c20 cm
504 _aincludes index
520 _aSmyrna was the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire, its vast wealth created over centuries. Its factories teemed with Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Jews--a majority Christian city unique in the Islamic world. But to the Turkish nationalists, Smyrna was a city of infidels. In the aftermath of the First World War and with the support of the Great Powers, Greece had invaded Turkey
650 _aHistory of Europe
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