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    The document summarizes the Chios Massacre of 1822, when Ottoman troops killed tens of thousands of Greek citizens on the island of Chios during the Greek War of Independence. Specifically, it describes how Chios had been an economically important region for the Ottoman Empire, but when some Chios islanders joined the Greek revolt, the Ottomans brutally massacred the population, killing infants, men over 12, and women over 40, while deporting the remaining 70,000 inhabitants into slavery. The massacre provoked international outrage and increased support for Greek independence.

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    The document summarizes the Chios Massacre of 1822, when Ottoman troops killed tens of thousands of Greek citizens on the island of Chios during the Greek War of Independence. Specifically, it describes how Chios had been an economically important region for the Ottoman Empire, but when some Chios islanders joined the Greek revolt, the Ottomans brutally massacred the population, killing infants, men over 12, and women over 40, while deporting the remaining 70,000 inhabitants into slavery. The massacre provoked international outrage and increased support for Greek independence.

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    The document summarizes the Chios Massacre of 1822, when Ottoman troops killed tens of thousands of Greek citizens on the island of Chios during the Greek War of Independence. Specifically, it describes how Chios had been an economically important region for the Ottoman Empire, but when some Chios islanders joined the Greek revolt, the Ottomans brutally massacred the population, killing infants, men over 12, and women over 40, while deporting the remaining 70,000 inhabitants into slavery. The massacre provoked international outrage and increased support for Greek independence.

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    The Massacre at Chios” by Eugène Delacroix is a massive painting showing Chios for thousands of years was prominent in trade

    trade and diplomacy


    the horror and destruction visited on the Island of Chios. A display of throughout the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean.
    suffering, military might, ornate costumes, terror, and death in a scene of
    widespread desolation.
    In recognition of Chios’ central economic role, the Ottoman Empire
    allowed Chios almost complete control over its internal affairs as Chios’
    There is no heroic figure to counterbalance the massacre and the trade and the very highly-valued mastic plant harvested only on Chios
    hopelessness of the victims, and there is no suggestion of hope among were of great economic value to the empire.
    the ruin and despair.
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    The painting reflects the reality of the Chios massacre and represents the
    During the Greek War of Independence, the island’s ruling classes were
    killing of twenty thousand citizens, and the forced deportation into
    reluctant to join the Greek revolt, fearing the loss of their freedom,
    slavery of almost all the surviving seventy thousand inhabitants by
    security, and prosperity.
    Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822.

    The leaders were concerned that they were located too close to the
    Ottoman soldiers were ordered to kill all infants under three years old, all
    heartland of Turkish Anatolia. Chios is only 6.7 kilometers (4.2 mi) from
    men 12 years and older, and all women 40 and older, except those willing
    the Anatolian mainland.
    to convert to Islam.

    However in 1822, as the Greek revolt gathered strength on the Greek


    The wholesale massacre provoked international outrage and led to
    mainland, several hundred armed Greeks from the neighboring island of
    increasing international support for the Greek cause for Independence.
    Samos landed in Chios to attack the Turks, who retreated to their island
    citadel.

    Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, and the Chios Massacre
    describes the killing of tens of thousands of Greeks on the island by
    Many Chios islanders decided to join the revolution; however, the
    Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1824.
    majority of the population did not join the revolt against the Ottoman
    Empire.

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